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Kin Talk — the nightly show for people whose pets are family. Because they're more than pets — they're Kin.
Join hosts Maya and Dev every night for real conversations about the Kinsle features changing pet care: lost pet alerts, transferable profiles, care teams, and the stories behind them — plus a rotating expert guest who actually knows the science. Twice a week, Kinsle founder LaGarrick Gantt stops by with his Founder's Take.
20–30 minutes a night. Made for pet lovers, by pet lovers. New episodes daily.
It is 11.40 on a Tuesday night. Your hands are full, your dog is looking at you like you hold the answers to the universe, and you have a question that cannot wait until morning. Tonight on Kintalk, we meet the two members of the KinsLe family who are awake for exactly that moment. Welcome to Kintalk, the nightly show for people who believe pets are family. I am Maya. And I am Dev. Tonight, talk to Kinny and Kimmy. KinsLe, K-I-N-S-L-E has two built-in assistants living inside the app, and as of launch week, they do something our listeners have been asking about for months. They talk back, genuine back and forth conversation about your pet by name in the context of that pet's own profile. And that last part is the whole story.
So let me underline it before we go anywhere. Not a generic chat bot answering generic pet questions. A conversation that knows which pet you mean, because it lives where that pet's profile, records, and history live. Our guest tonight lives with that conversation every day. Leah is a pet parent of two, a dog named Biscuit and a cat named Miso, and one of the first families to put Kinny and Kimmy to work on ordinary days and on one very unordinary night. Leah is a voiced character, created from the experience of real pet parents who use these assistants daily. She is not a real person, but the 1140 question she is about to describe is a composite of true evenings in real kitchens. Leah, welcome to Kintalk.
Thank you, Maya. Thank you, Dev. And yes, 1140 is exactly right. Nobody needs an assistant at two in the afternoon when life is calm and both hands are free. You need one when you are holding a leash in one hand, a flashlight in the other, and your brain is running a list it cannot hold. Tell them about the choice first, because every kinsley family starts there. Two assistants, one choice. In settings, there is a simple picker. Your assistant, Kinny or Kimmy. Kinny is our robo pup, the male assistant, cream colored with a ruby heart on his chest. Kinny is his counterpart, the female assistant, created so families could choose the voice and the presence that feels right in their house. I picked Kinny for our
house because my daughter talks to her like a friend. My neighbor picked Kinny because his voice is the one his rescue dog hears during training reminders. And here is the part families love. You can switch. Cleanly, both ways. Your pet, your records, your conversation history with your family. None of that is lost because you changed your mind about who you want to talk to. Choice without penalty. That sounds small until you've lived inside an app that punishes you for changing a setting. It is trust rehearsed in a small place. KinsLe. K-I-N-S-L-E. Let's you choose your companion. And then it proves the choice is really yours by letting you change it. Now the headline, Leah. Conversation. Because for a long time on this show, we described
Kinny as an assistant who could help inside the console for businesses. Sending an invoice, booking an appointment, doing the back office work at the owner's word. All true. And we told that story in our business episodes. What is new and verified live at launch is that Kinny and Kimmy now speak with members and hold a genuine back and forth conversation. Genuine is the word I would fight for. It is not me typing a command and getting a paragraph back. I ask a question out loud. Kinny answers. I follow up, half a sentence, the way you talk to a person who already knows your house, and she follows the follow up. She knows Biscuit is the dog, and Miso is the cat. She knows which one had the vet visit last month,
because that visit lives in the profile she is sitting beside. When I say, what did the vet say about his weight? I am not starting the story over. She is already in the story. Already in the story. Listeners hear how different that is from every other pet tool most families have used. The folder does not talk. The group chat does not remember. The sticky note on the fridge definitely does not know that Biscuit's vaccination is the one that matters this month, and Miso's is the one that matters next month. And on launch weekend, the founder himself verified this on his own phone. Both Kinny and Kimmy speak, and both hold that genuine conversation. That is not a keynote promise tonight. That is a live, working, download it and try it fact. Can I tell the 1140 story now,
because that is when I stopped thinking of Kimmy as a feature. Please. The floor is yours. Biscuit got into the pantry. Not a dramatic story, no emergency, and I want to be careful here. He ate something he should not have. I was not sure how much, and I was scared in that specific kitchen at midnight way, where every decision feels bigger than it is. I talked to Kimmy, and the first thing that mattered is what she did not do. She did not diagnose my dog. She did not treat my dog. She said, plainly, that health worries belong with a veterinarian, and then she helped me do everything around that call. She pulled up biscuits profile so I had his weight, his age, and his history in one place to read to the after hours vet. She helped me say clearly what he ate and when,
and she stayed in the conversation while I waited, organizing the ordinary facts, so my scared brain did not have to hold them alone. That guardrail is not a footnote listeners. It is the design. Kinney and Kimmy never claimed to treat or diagnose illness. Ever. They organize, they remind, they help you find services, they draft the alert, they keep the record straight. Care belongs with the professionals who can lay hands on your pet. Conversation belongs here, and the line between those two things is bright and it is permanent. A good assistant knows what it is not. Leah, what did the vet say when you called with that profile in front of you? She said, you just saved us ten minutes and you saved me guessing.
Biscuit was fine by the way. A watchful night, a bland breakfast, and a pantry door that now locks. But I have thought about those ten minutes ever since. On a worse night, ten minutes is not a convenience. Ten minutes is the whole story. Welcome back to Kin Talk. We are talking with Leah about talking, literally, to Kinney and Kimmy, the two built-in assistants inside KinsLe, K-I-N-S-L-E. Leah, the midnight story is the dramatic one, but you told our team the ordinary days are where this actually earns its place. Make that case. Happily, because ordinary is 99% of pet life. On an ordinary Tuesday, Kimmy is the keeper of the small, faithful things. Biscuits care team has duties, named duties, and when the dog walker marks a duty done, it is logged and time-stamped. I can ask Kimmy,
did Biscuit get his afternoon walk, and get an answer from the record, not from a group chat I have to scroll. I can ask her to remind the sitter about Miso's feeding, and that reminder rides on the same profile the sitter will see through a care pass. That temporary, scoped link a sitter or a family member opens with no account and no app install. There's the product story, listeners, in one sentence. The profile is the book. The care team is the people in the book. The care pass is the temporary key you hand a trusted person, and Kinney and Kimmy are the voice that reads the book back to you when your hands are busy living it. Say more about hands busy, because I think that is the quiet revolution here.
Pet care is a hands-full life. You're holding a leash, carrying a carrier, wiping paws, holding a cat who has opinions, typing a careful search into a phone is the worst interface imaginable for that life. Talking is the natural one. Walk and talk, drive and talk, safely, hands-free. Ask while you cook the bland breakfast for the dog who raided the pantry. The conversation meets the life where the life actually happens. And it works the other side of the counter too. Every kinsley business has Kinney inside its console. We verified this ourselves last month and told the story in the back office episode. The owner asks and Kinney does the work. Send this invoice, book that appointment, draft that message to a client. The back office's extra pair of hands at the owner's word.
Same assistant, two homes. In a family's app, a companion who knows the pet. In a business's console, a worker who knows the shop. That sameness is not an accident. It is one product story. The groomer who sends before, during and after pictures straight to Biscuits profile is working in the same kinsley, K-I-N-S-L-E where Leah will ask Kimmy tonight what time that grooming appointment is. And she will know because the appointment, the pictures, the record and the conversation all live in one place. That is the sentence I say to other pet parents now. One place and you can talk to it. Let us take the hardest ordinary case, the one every family dreads rehearsing. The lost pet moment. I have rehearsed it with Kimmy. I am not ashamed to say it.
If Biscuit ever slips a gate, the lost pet alert system is free in every profile. One tap and the alert reaches the circle of love nearby. Within 10 miles, it shows on the map and any finder can message me directly from Biscuits profile and that direct messaging is free in every profile. What the assistant changes is the first frantic minute. Instead of me trying to type with shaking hands, I talk. Help me raise the alert. What goes in it is already in the profile. His photos, his description, how to reach me, his kinsley ID and his verified QR ID, the same ID that stays with him for life. A stranger who finds him can scan that ID, open his profile and reach me. The assistant does not replace the circle. The assistant gets me to the circle faster
in the minute when faster matters most. The net is the people. The voice is how you call the net when your hands are shaking. That might be tonight's sentence. Write it on the wall next to last night. Leah, one more ordinary superpower and then we will talk about what families should actually do this week. Finding help. I asked Kimmy to find a groomer near us and she is not searching the whole internet's opinion of groomers. She is pointing me toward real pet businesses, the kind you can find in the kinsley directory, thousands of businesses nationwide with profiles you can read before you book. A question, a conversation and a short list of real neighbors in the pet business. No new app, no new password. Just talk inside the place your pet already lives.
And for the questions that are not about your pet at all but about pet life in general, there is the library behind the conversation. KinsLe Answers, thousands of original answers written independently in English and in Spanish, neither a translation of the other. A two in the morning question about what a cat can safely eat has a researched people first answer waiting and one great pet answer arrives in your inbox every Saturday if you subscribe to the newsletter. The assistant is a good talker, the library is a good reader, a family needs both at different hours. Back on Kin Talk with Leah and a question our listeners send us in some form every single week. If Kinney and Kimmy can talk, what do people actually talk about? Not the brochure
version Leah, your real week. My real week is gloriously unglamorous. Monday I asked Kimmy what was on Biscuits record that I always forget his exact weight at his last visit because the new food bag asks for it and my memory rounds creatively. Tuesday me so hid the way cats do when the carrier appears and I asked Kimmy to move her grooming reminder and note that she is a morning appointment cat not an afternoon one and that note now lives where the next person who books for her will see it Wednesday our dog walker was sick and I asked Kimmy who else is on Biscuits care team because I could not remember if my brother was listed for walks or only for feeding he was listed he stepped in and the duty log
shows the whole swap who did what and when with nobody texting in a panic notice what is happening in every one of those stories listeners nothing dramatic no sirens just a family whose pet information is kept so faithfully that asking a question gets a true answer that faithfulness is rehearsed on Mondays and Tuesdays and it is exactly what a family is drawing on when a Thursday goes wrong Thursday is when it stopped feeling like a convenience again my daughter asked Kimmy a question I did not hear until later she asked is biscuit old she is seven biscuit is graying around the muzzle and she had noticed the way children notice everything we are trying not to say out loud Kimmy answered her gently and honestly
in words a child can hold that biscuit is a grown-up dog that gray is normal that loving him well means good food good walks and his vet visits and then Kimmy suggested she asked me about his birthday party plans which in our house are a serious civic event no diagnosis no pretending just a kind true conversation with a child about her dog that story is going to stay with a lot of parents listening tonight a voice in the house that a child can ask the hard small question to and get gentleness and truth and get handed back to her parents for and the line held comfort yes information from biscuits own record yes medicine never that line is why families can trust the conversation in the first place
the toy that settles him the thing we never do because it winds him up that note is the same heart as the sitter handover sheet his care team uses and the sitter opened it through his care pass no account no install just the temporary link I chose to share scoped to biscuit for exactly as long as the job lasts when we came home the completion log showed the duties done time stamped trust but verify except the verifying was already done by the record trust through scoped temporary access and trust through a log that proves the care happened we told the care pass story on its own night last month and it remains one of the most quietly radical ideas in kinsley k i n s l e the owner hands over exactly what the pet needs
for exactly as long as the job lasts and nothing more and now the family can set all of that by talking set up by talking is worth pausing on every feature we have ever celebrated on the show the profile the care team the care pass the alert all of them had a small moment of setup that busy families postponed postponement is the enemy of every good system a conversation lowers that moment to almost nothing you do not sit down to configure your pet's life you mention it while you are living it and it is kept mention it and it is kept that is exactly the feeling saturday i mentioned that biscuit had learned to open the pantry as a joke mostly kimmy kept it in his story his history now honestly records the great pantry incident which the vet found
extremely helpful and my husband found extremely funny in that order the history matters more than it sounds like it does tonight a pet's history is the difference between a new vet a new sitter a new home starting from the whole story or starting from a blank page and a guess we have told that story from the shelter side on this show when a profile transfers with a pet to a new owner whole and intact with a permanent audit trail a conversation that keeps the history faithfully in the ordinary weeks is what makes that handoff rich when life changes hands so the week totaled up a wait remembered the reminder moved a brother found on a list a child's hard question answered gently a sitter briefed properly a pantry crime entered into the
permanent record none of it is a headline all of it is the actual texture of loving an animal well and all of it happened in conversation inside kinsley where the story already lives one more part of this conversation before we close and it is the part for the skeptics because every family listening has one sometimes in the mirror dev you were the skeptic on our own team about this one i believe guilty and happily corrected my skepticism was simple pet families do not need another gadget voice saying the weather in a cuter tone if kinny and kimmy were a novelty a mascot with a microphone i was ready to say so on this show what changed my mind is context a generic voice knows nothing about your house these voices sit beside your pet's profile inside kinsley k-i-n-s-l-e
where the records the care team the appointments and the history already live the conversation is only as good as what it can truthfully draw on and here what it can draw on is the real kept story of your actual pet that is not a novelty that is an interface worthy of the information underneath it can i add the skeptic test from a parent side ask it something only your house knows not a trick question a real one what did we learn at mezzo's last appointment who feeds biscuit when i travel when is his vaccination due the one on his record not a generic schedule from the internet if the answer comes back true specific and sourced from your own pets kept life you will feel the floor of the thing it is solid it is your family's own record talking and ask the boundary
question to every family should ask it something medical something that needs hands and eyes and a license and listen to what happens it will tell you kindly and without hedging that health worries belong with a veterinarian and then it will help you prepare for that vet with the record the history and the right questions a system that knows where it ends is a system a family can lean on everywhere else for businesses listening tonight your version of the skeptic test lives in your console ask kinny to do a real piece of back office work in your real shop send the invoice for the client standing at your counter book the appointment for the dog in your tub watch it happen end to end in the system your clients already see we ran that test ourselves before
we ever talked about it on air and kinny drafted and completed the work at the owner's word skepticism is welcome here bring it the work survives it the last thing i want to say to the families who are downloading kinsley this week maybe tonight maybe because of the show do not wait for a dramatic night to meet your assistant meet them on a boring day introduce your pet properly the way you would introduce them to a beloved sitter this is biscuit he is afraid of thunder and devoted to a blue duck this is miso she pretends not to care and cares enormously say the true small things out loud and let the profile learn the shape of your house then on the night when your hands are full and your brain is scared the voice that answers you
will already know who everybody is that knowing is not magic it is just faithfulness started early on a calm day faithfulness started early on a calm day lia if tonight's episode has a homework assignment that is it word for word and it takes 10 calm minutes we checked a profile a choice between two voices one real conversation 10 minutes on a calm day buys a family a companion for every uncom one after it we are back for the close of kin talk talking with lia about kinny and kimmy the two voices inside kinsley k i n s l e lia last questions what should a family actually do this week in real life not in feature land three small things all this week first download kinsley and build your pet's profile on a calm day true photos real records the story
only you know a profile built on a calm day is the one that works on a frantic night second go to settings choose your assistant kinny or kimmy and simply talk to them ask a real question about your real pet and follow it up feel what it is like when the answer already knows your house third rehearse the hard minute once out loud while it is not hard find the lost pet alert in the profile see the circle of love standing behind it hope you never use it and know exactly where it is if you do calm day real conversation one rehearsal that is a week a family can actually do lia what has this change in your house honestly underneath the convenience biscuit and niso cannot tell their own story in words that has
always been the quiet ache of loving an animal somebody has to hold the story for them their vet holds a piece i hold a piece the walker holds a piece what kinsley did is give the story one home and then with kinny and kimmy it gave that home a voice when i talk to kimmy about biscuit i am talking to the place where biscuits whole life is kept that does not feel like technology to me it feels like somebody finally built the obvious thing the thing pet families have needed since the first folder of photocopies a home for the story that can talk back a home for the story that can talk back friends that is tonight lia thank you for bringing your kitchen your pantry and your two very loved animals to the show thank you for building a show that knows they are more than pets
biscuit is asleep on my feet as we speak and niso is ignoring all of us beautifully exactly as exactly as it should be friends here's your invitation and it is a live one kinsley is live download it free on the app store tonight k i n s l e build the profile choose kinny or kimmy in settings and have your first real conversation about the animal asleep on your feet android friends we have not forgotten you android is on its way and when it lands this show will give it its own party just like we promised until then everything lia described tonight will be waiting for you in the same kinsley with the same two voices ready to talk and if you want one great pet answer in your inbox every saturday subscribe free to the kinsley answers newsletter the link
is in tonight's episode description right under the download link they are more than pets they are kin and now in kinsley the place where their story lives can answer you when you call it by name good night everybody talk to your kin tonight and let kinny and kimmy help you do it good night download kinsley k i n s l e and start the conversation