At Vedi, each product release has a distinct identity. We build in six-week cycles, and every release gets an animal — A to Z. It’s a little thing our dev team started doing, and it stuck. It’s weirdly joyful. And lately, I’ve been thinking... maybe it's worth sharing the wild side of our roadmap.

So, here’s the first instalment of ‘The Wild Release’.

The Kudu.

High jump champion of the bush and Africa’s most striking and graceful antelope. Like the kudu, this release clears some hurdles.

It’s not about flashy new features. Instead, it’s an improvement cycle focused on enhancing quality of life, tweaking the product based on real-world feedback, resolving persistent issues, and improving reliability. Like the Kudu, we’ve gracefully leapt over several obstacles to make your interactions with Vedi and patient health data even smoother and faster.

What’s in Kudu:

🐾 Emergency Hospital Check-in & Triage: We've overcome multiple minor barriers, significantly speeding up ER patient admissions and data transfer to other hospital systems, with minimal front-desk effort.

🐾 Microchip Registration Module: Now available to Global Micro Animal Registry users, along with numerous fixes and improvements.

🐾 Vedi Hub Performance Tune-ups: Optimised for greater reliability and responsiveness.

🐾 Team Management Enhancements: Easier clinic onboarding and more intuitive management of team members within the Vedi ecosystem.

🐾 Sandbox Demo Improvements: Enhanced demo environments for channel partners to showcase Vedi effectively to clinics.

Behind the scenes.

It’s been a disrupted, public holiday-riddled few weeks. Great to have a breather, but even better to get back to the job at hand! Credit to the team, though; a lot was accomplished over several short weeks.

Our digital wallet ‘Pet Passport’, the first product we’ve offered to pet parents, has been out for a couple of weeks. It has already achieved double-digit adoption rates, which is very encouraging. I’m excited about its future, but for now, it’s a handy extension and valuable asset for the hundreds of thousands of pet owners connected to Vedi.

It’s a bit of a joke in the office how much I enjoy ‘show & tell’ sessions with the dev team. It’s one of my favourite parts of the job – seeing the transformation of the scribbles of our ideas or user requests into tangible products and features.

Yesterday, I had the opportunity to play with our soon-to-be-released integrated AI tool, Sidekick. With its deep integrations and patient context, it delivers significantly superior patient insights to the user, intuitive treatment note capture, and diagnosis sense-checking compared to anything in the market today. For now, I'll just say that it’s fantastic, and I'll bottle my enthusiasm for the next update.

That’s it for now.

One animal. One release. One step further.

See you at L. Can you guess the animal?