Features

Every step of equine ID,
thought through.

EquiSketch isn't a generic form-builder bolted onto a horse picture. It's purpose-built for the workflow Irish vets actually do — from the yard, to the laptop, to the Passport Issuing Organisation's inbox.

Workflow

Two ways to mark a chart

Designed for the realities of the yard, the lorry-park and the dispensary.

Scan-and-interpret upload mode

Photograph your existing hand-drawn paper chart. EquiSketch validates scan quality (light, skew, completeness) and sends the image to a vision LLM. You get FEI-vocabulary descriptions back in seconds.

Digital drawing mode

Draw markings directly on a horse silhouette with stylus or finger — pressure-sensitive, red for white markings, black for whorls/spots/scars per FEI conventions. Undo / redo / eraser / line-weight.

On-demand AI interpretation

Tap one button to interpret your drawing into a structured description per anatomical region. No flaky real-time streaming; predictable cost and latency.

Edit, sign, accept

Review the AI's text per region with per-field confidence chips. Edit any line. Capture your stylus signature. Accept — the chart is filed and versioned.

Intelligence

Vision AI, tuned for equine ID

FEI rules embedded in the prompt. Anatomically aware. Vocabulary-locked.

Claude Sonnet 4.5 by default

Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4.5 (with Opus 4.5 / Haiku 4.5 options) reads the chart and outputs structured JSON with eight anatomical regions plus per-field and overall confidence scores.

Bring your own key

Prefer OpenAI GPT-5.2 or Google Gemini 3? Add your own Anthropic, OpenAI or Gemini API key in Settings — EquiSketch uses your key in preference and bills you nothing extra for tokens.

FEI vocabulary lock

The prompt embeds the FEI standards: star / stripe / blaze / snip / flesh-mark, whorl types, anatomical limb terms (no 'sock' or 'stocking'), Prophet's Thumb, zebra marks, brands.

Confidence-graded review

Each field gets a 0–100 confidence chip — green ≥90%, yellow ≥70%, red <70%. The overall banner tells you whether to skim, review carefully, or re-scan.

Trust

Compliance, audit, control

Built so PIOs trust the records and inspectors find them.

Version history on every accept

A snapshot of every accepted chart is stored alongside who edited what. You can answer 'who changed this and when' instantly.

Audit log on every action

Login, view, edit, accept, download, PIO search — every action writes an audit entry with IP, user-agent and details. Admins filter by action type.

Role-based access control

Four roles: Vet, PIO, Practice Admin, System Admin. Strict tenant isolation — PIOs only ever see their own chart type, vets only their own charts.

Encrypted-at-rest

Passwords are bcrypt-12. Sensitive PII like microchip numbers are encrypted at rest. Refresh tokens live in httpOnly cookies, access tokens are short-lived.

Experience

Tablet-first, desktop-ready

Optimised for the iPad in your hand at 7am, the laptop at 9pm.

Pressure-sensitive canvas

Apple Pencil and Wacom-class styluses are pressure-mapped to line width. Touch-only fallback for finger drawing in a pinch.

Practice stamp + signature auto-applied

Upload your stamp once. Sign each chart with the stylus. Stamp, signature, date, vet number and reg number auto-populate every chart you accept.

Six Irish PIO chart types

HSI, Weatherbys, Connemara P.B.S., Leisure Horse Ireland, Irish Warmblood (WSI), Irish Harness Racing Association — all wired in, configurable templates.

Print-ready PDF export

Every accepted chart renders to an A4 print-ready layout — silhouette, descriptions, metadata, stamp, signature. Ctrl/Cmd-P → Save as PDF for paper backup.

Retrieval

The PIO portal

PIOs receive a clean, scoped, audit-trailed retrieval experience.

Microchip search

Type the chip — partial matches return matching charts of your chart type only. No risk of cross-PIO leakage.

Read-only chart view

PIOs can view and download accepted charts. They cannot edit, comment, or modify — keeping the vet's record canonical.

Per-access audit trail

Every PIO search, view, and download is logged with user, IP, and timestamp — both for your compliance, and theirs.

Admin-controlled accounts

PIO accounts are never self-registered. The system admin provisions each PIO and scopes them to their chart_type.

Platform

Operations & extensibility

Modular from day one — built to grow with the practice and the standards.

Live build tracker

Every feature in the spec is tracked on an in-app kanban with state (Done / Partial / Not started / Blocked) and admin notes. Transparency built in.

Failed-scan reporting (roadmap)

When an image is rejected for quality, the failure reason is logged. Roadmap: an admin dashboard surfacing trends to drive practice training.

Provider-agnostic AI layer

Swap vision providers without touching application code. Today: Claude / OpenAI / Gemini. Tomorrow: whatever's the best fit for equine vision.

S3-ready storage abstraction

Files (stamps, sources, canvas snapshots, signatures) live behind a storage service. Move from local disk to S3 / Azure Blob without code changes.

Now live for accepted charts

After the chart, the full veterinary report — drafted in seconds.

Accept any chart and tap Vetting report → Draft. The AI writes a structured identification & examination note in your letterhead, using your registration and practice details, with severity-adapted clinical comments. You edit, finalise, print or PDF.

Your template, learned

Upload one or two previous reports. EquiSketch fingerprints your house style, headings, sign-off language and table layouts.

Severity-adapted comments

A 6-year-old sound gelding gets routine wording. A subtle hindquarter atrophy gets a precise, qualified clinical note.

PDF, DOCX, or signed email

Export to the format your client expects — or auto-attach the signed PDF to the PIO submission email.

Audit-grade

Every draft and edit is versioned and signable, just like the chart itself. Defensible in dispute.

Early access

We're piloting the Vetting Report Drafter with three Irish practices in Q3 2026. Practices on the Clinic and Enterprise tier get first access at no additional charge. Request a pilot slot →

Ready when you are

See it on your own chart.

Sign in as a demo vet, draw a couple of markings, and watch EquiSketch describe them in FEI vocabulary — no card, no commitment.

EquiSketch

Digital equine identification charting for Irish veterinary surgeons and Passport Issuing Organisations.

Compliance
  • FEI marking standards
  • Audit-grade version history
  • Encrypted at rest
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