https://futureproof.vet/learn/ Practical guides on AI in veterinary practice from Dr. Steve Pelton, DVM, a solo vet in Houston. en-us Tue, 27 Oct 2026 18:30:00 GMT https://futureproof.vet/journal/chart-card/https://futureproof.vet/journal/chart-card/Every vet knows the scroll. A patient comes in, you open the chart, and the history is a long wall of notes you read top to bottom hoping the thing you need…Tue, 27 Oct 2026 18:30:00 GMTDr. Steve Pelton, DVM https://futureproof.vet/journal/clinic-website-just-say-it/https://futureproof.vet/journal/clinic-website-just-say-it/I don't write code or touch my clinic's website. When something on it bugs me, I tell Claude in plain words. Here's one evening and one morning of that.Tue, 27 Oct 2026 14:45:00 GMTDr. Steve Pelton, DVM https://futureproof.vet/learn/best-veterinary-ai-scribe/https://futureproof.vet/learn/best-veterinary-ai-scribe/Which veterinary AI scribe to buy in 2026, from a solo vet who built his own. ScribbleVet, VetRec, CoVet, HappyDoc, Talkatoo and more, with real prices.Mon, 26 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTDr. Steve Pelton, DVM https://futureproof.vet/learn/chatgpt-prompts-for-veterinarians/https://futureproof.vet/learn/chatgpt-prompts-for-veterinarians/Free ChatGPT prompts for veterinarians, written and tested by a practicing vet: discharge notes, client emails, SOAP cleanup and more. Copy, paste, edit.Mon, 26 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTDr. Steve Pelton, DVM https://futureproof.vet/learn/ai-scribe-cost-for-veterinarians/https://futureproof.vet/learn/ai-scribe-cost-for-veterinarians/What veterinary AI scribes cost in 2026, from free plans to $200 per doctor a month, and the hidden cost most vets miss: time spent fixing the note.Mon, 26 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTDr. Steve Pelton, DVM https://futureproof.vet/learn/speech-to-text-for-veterinarians/https://futureproof.vet/learn/speech-to-text-for-veterinarians/Speech to text for veterinarians, from a solo vet with no vendor ties. Hold a hotkey, talk, and cleaned-up dictation lands in whatever app you're in.Mon, 26 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTDr. Steve Pelton, DVM https://futureproof.vet/journal/ai-wrote-my-books/https://futureproof.vet/journal/ai-wrote-my-books/I've got five books out now, on puppies, itchy dogs, surgery and vet bills, and I'm finishing a sixth on cats with kidney disease. When that comes up, the…Thu, 22 Oct 2026 01:30:00 GMTDr. Steve Pelton, DVM https://futureproof.vet/journal/week-oct-21/https://futureproof.vet/journal/week-oct-21/The New Puppy went to Amazon as a full-color paperback, all 342 pages. For the front desk I made a one-page client handout and little counter cards with QR…Wed, 21 Oct 2026 23:00:00 GMTDr. Steve Pelton, DVM https://futureproof.vet/journal/lobby-screen/https://futureproof.vet/journal/lobby-screen/We put a 32-inch touchscreen in the front lobby, and out of the box it was basically a giant tablet full of junk: Netflix, Disney+, TikTok, Instagram…Wed, 21 Oct 2026 19:00:00 GMTDr. Steve Pelton, DVM https://futureproof.vet/journal/estimate-to-baylee/https://futureproof.vet/journal/estimate-to-baylee/This is the kind of thing I'd never have thought was worth fixing. A few times a day a drop-off, a sick pet or a hospital case needs an estimate, and since…Thu, 15 Oct 2026 13:30:00 GMTDr. Steve Pelton, DVM https://futureproof.vet/journal/claude-films/https://futureproof.vet/journal/claude-films/One afternoon between patients I asked Claude something I'd been chewing on. My brain is about 86 billion neurons doing pattern recognition, and it's billions…Wed, 14 Oct 2026 16:00:00 GMTDr. Steve Pelton, DVM https://futureproof.vet/journal/itchydog-vet/https://futureproof.vet/journal/itchydog-vet/I wanted a site I could hand to clients with itchy dogs, something better than a pamphlet. The first real draft went up at 1:27 in the morning and couldn't…Thu, 08 Oct 2026 20:00:00 GMTDr. Steve Pelton, DVM https://futureproof.vet/learn/itchydog-vet-built-in-five-days/https://futureproof.vet/learn/itchydog-vet-built-in-five-days/itchydog.vet went from a blank starter page to the site I hand to clients with itchy dogs in five days, with 142 saved versions along the way. Claude brought the old ones back to life and cut them into a one-minute video, first terrible draft included.Thu, 08 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTDr. Steve Pelton, DVM https://futureproof.vet/journal/i-made-eight-movies-starring-my-clinic-team-five-of-them-on-one-monday/https://futureproof.vet/journal/i-made-eight-movies-starring-my-clinic-team-five-of-them-on-one-monday/This one has nothing to do with running a clinic, and I'm sharing it anyway, because it's the clearest picture I've got of how fast these tools are moving.Tue, 06 Oct 2026 19:10:50 GMTDr. Steve Pelton, DVM https://futureproof.vet/learn/vetnexus-practice-software-built-with-claude/https://futureproof.vet/learn/vetnexus-practice-software-built-with-claude/When my clinic moved from VIA to Shepherd, nineteen years of records stayed behind. I built VetNexus with Claude to read them, and it grew into the screen I run my day from: a checklist that catches missed charges, an AI chart summary, and plain-English search. A three-minute demo on a made-up clinic.Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTDr. Steve Pelton, DVM https://futureproof.vet/journal/my-clinic-switched-software-so-i-built-my-own-on-top-of-it-vetnexus-demo-on-the-front-page/https://futureproof.vet/journal/my-clinic-switched-software-so-i-built-my-own-on-top-of-it-vetnexus-demo-on-the-front-page/In January we moved from VIA to Shepherd. Nineteen years of records stayed behind in VIA, in a database nobody supports anymore. A hundred thousand notes…Sun, 04 Oct 2026 21:45:58 GMTDr. Steve Pelton, DVM https://futureproof.vet/journal/how-and-why-i-built-hearth-consult-demo-on-the-front-page/https://futureproof.vet/journal/how-and-why-i-built-hearth-consult-demo-on-the-front-page/Most of my career it's been just me in the building. If you've ever worked somewhere with 3 or 4 doctors you know the move.. something doesn't add up, you…Mon, 28 Sep 2026 20:25:07 GMTDr. Steve Pelton, DVM https://futureproof.vet/learn/hearth-consult-ai-case-colleague/https://futureproof.vet/learn/hearth-consult-ai-case-colleague/Hearth Consult is the case consult tool I built for my own clinic in a few hours with Claude. What it does, the safety rails I put on the drug math, how it reads a real chart without the owner's name, and a two and a half minute demo.Mon, 28 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTDr. Steve Pelton, DVM https://futureproof.vet/learn/discharge-instructions-with-ai/https://futureproof.vet/learn/discharge-instructions-with-ai/How a solo vet turns a dictated plan into an owner-ready discharge sheet with AI in seconds: the chart note, the owner version, and the mistake to avoid.Mon, 21 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTDr. Steve Pelton, DVM https://futureproof.vet/learn/patient-records-in-chatgpt-safe/https://futureproof.vet/learn/patient-records-in-chatgpt-safe/Vet records aren't covered by HIPAA, but that doesn't make pasting them into ChatGPT fine. A practicing vet on the real risk, what to leave out, and a safe way to do it.Mon, 21 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTDr. Steve Pelton, DVM https://futureproof.vet/journal/home-chef-fun-an-app-that-talks-you-through-dinner/https://futureproof.vet/journal/home-chef-fun-an-app-that-talks-you-through-dinner/We get Home Chef meals delivered all the time. The directions are pretty simple, but it's all on one page, and some nights there are 6 or 7 steps and it gets…Fri, 18 Sep 2026 11:03:31 GMTDr. Steve Pelton, DVM https://futureproof.vet/journal/the-useful-part-is-getting-it-to-sound-like-me/https://futureproof.vet/journal/the-useful-part-is-getting-it-to-sound-like-me/Owner explanations, discharge notes, handouts. That is still some of the work I use this for most.Fri, 11 Sep 2026 00:16:00 GMTDr. Steve Pelton, DVM https://futureproof.vet/journal/pawnotes/https://futureproof.vet/journal/pawnotes/We needed a good messaging system in the clinic, from front desk to back in treatment, to back in my office. Sidenotes worked, but it was clunky, old and…Thu, 10 Sep 2026 22:53:20 GMTDr. Steve Pelton, DVM