HomeWagger Founding Partner Programme
Help shape a safer, more connected future for dog rehoming
We are inviting a small number of UK shelters and rescues to work alongside HomeWagger as Founding Partners — using the platform in practice, sharing real-world insight and helping shape how our technology, support and wider welfare network develop.
This is more than early access to software. It is an opportunity to influence a welfare-first service being built around the realities of rescue work.
- Personal onboarding and direct founder support
- Full platform access throughout onboarding
- Use HomeWagger with real dogs and adopter interest
- Help shape workflows, features and future priorities
No commitment during onboarding. Places are limited so every partner receives meaningful support.
A genuine working partnership
Built with rescue organisations, not simply offered to them
Your team’s experience, feedback and operational insight will directly influence how HomeWagger evolves.
Use it in practice
Explore HomeWagger through genuine rescue workflows and real rehoming cases.
Share honest feedback
Tell us what supports your team, where friction remains and what needs improving.
Help shape what comes next
Influence workflows, platform priorities and the wider support offered to rescue organisations.
Why we are starting with partners
The strongest services are shaped by the people who will actually use them
HomeWagger has been designed around welfare-first principles, but no digital service should be developed in isolation from the organisations managing complex cases every day.
Our Founding Partners will help test assumptions, identify practical gaps and ensure HomeWagger supports real rescue work rather than creating another layer of administration.
What you receive
- Guided onboarding
- Full platform access
- Direct founder support
- Regular check-ins
What you help shape
- Rescue workflows
- Platform priorities
- Support resources
- Partnership development
What this is not
- A generic software trial
- A high-pressure sales process
- A marketplace for selling dogs
- A replacement for rescue judgement
What the partnership looks like
Practical use, honest feedback and direct collaboration
Founding Partners are not expected to redesign their entire operation around HomeWagger. The programme is designed to help you explore where it fits, what it improves and what needs to change.
Use HomeWagger in practice
Explore the platform through genuine shelter workflows rather than relying on a generic demonstration.
- Create and manage real dog profiles
- Review genuine Expressions of Interest
- Test adopter communication workflows
- Assess how HomeWagger fits your organisation
→ Understand its value through practical use
Influence what gets built
Your experience will help determine which features, workflows and improvements should be prioritised.
- Share practical operational feedback
- Identify unnecessary friction
- Suggest improvements and missing tools
- Help prioritise future development
→ Help build technology around real rescue work
Receive dedicated support
You will not be left to work everything out alone. Support is intentionally personal during the founding programme.
- Personal onboarding
- Guidance with initial setup
- Direct contact with the founder
- Ongoing check-ins and troubleshooting
→ Explore the platform with support close at hand
Help shape the wider service
HomeWagger is developing beyond a single digital platform into a wider welfare-first navigation and support service.
- Contribute insight into surrender prevention
- Help improve referral and signposting pathways
- Inform support for adopters and rehomers
- Strengthen connections across the welfare sector
→ Influence the wider ecosystem around rehoming
Guided platform preview
See what you will be helping to test and improve
Founding Partners will use HomeWagger through genuine rescue workflows, helping us understand where the platform already supports teams well and where further refinement is needed.
This preview shows some of the current shelter tools available during onboarding.
The programme gives you the opportunity to test them in practice and influence how they develop.
Current step
Start with a clearer dog listing
Show adopters what the dog needs before they enquire, helping reduce unsuitable interest from the start.
Interested in testing these tools and helping shape what comes next?
Apply to become a Founding PartnerThe programme journey
A supported process from first conversation to practical use
We are starting with a small group so every participating organisation can receive meaningful onboarding, support and opportunities to contribute.
Apply
Tell us about your organisation, current approach and what you would like HomeWagger to help with.
Explore together
We will arrange an initial conversation to understand your needs, answer questions and assess whether the programme is a good fit.
Onboard
Your organisation receives personal setup support and full access to the available shelter tools.
Use and shape
Use HomeWagger in practice, share feedback and help influence future workflows, features and support.
Founding Partner recognition
Be recognised as one of the organisations helping HomeWagger take shape
Founding Partners will be part of the first group of rescue organisations helping establish a new welfare-first approach to digital rehoming support.
Founding Partner status
Be recognised as one of the organisations that contributed insight during HomeWagger’s formative stage.
Priority involvement
Receive early opportunities to explore relevant platform improvements, resources and partnership initiatives.
Optional public recognition
With your permission, your organisation may be acknowledged through HomeWagger’s website, communications and partner network.
Continued collaboration
Help shape future conversations about rehoming, prevention, referrals and welfare-first digital services.
Is the programme right for you?
We are looking for thoughtful partners, not perfect organisations
You do not need a large team, advanced technical systems or a high volume of dogs to contribute meaningfully.
This may be a good fit if you…
- Rehome dogs within the UK
- Take welfare-led placement decisions seriously
- Are open to testing a developing service
- Can share practical, honest feedback
- Want to improve how rehoming journeys are managed
You do not need to…
- Replace all existing systems immediately
- Commit to a long-term contract during onboarding
- Adopt every available feature at once
- Have dedicated technical staff
- Change your welfare or approval standards
HomeWagger will not…
- Make placement decisions for your team
- Prioritise speed over suitability
- Allow dogs to be sold through the platform
- Remove your control over applicants or cases
- Pressure you to continue after onboarding
Join the first partner group
Apply to become a HomeWagger Founding Partner
Tell us a little about your organisation, your current rehoming process and what you would like to improve. We will review your application and respond personally.
Apply to become a Founding PartnerThe application takes approximately 2–3 minutes. There is no commitment.
Help build something that works with rescue organisations, not around them
HomeWagger is being developed to support better decisions, clearer rehoming journeys and safer outcomes for dogs. That can only happen through meaningful collaboration with the organisations doing the work.
Join a small founding group, explore HomeWagger in practice and help shape the service that develops from it.
Apply to become a Founding PartnerUse it first. Shape it with us. Decide after.