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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.
There are nights on this show when we teach something, and there are nights when we simply stand in a moment and say it out loud so it becomes real. Tonight is the second kind. Welcome to Kintalk, the nightly show for people who believe pets are family. I am Maya. And I am Dev. And tonight there is one headline, and we are going to say it slowly so nobody misses it. KinsLe is live. K-I-N-S-L-E. KinsLe is live on the app store tonight, for real in 175 countries. 175 countries. Say that number again, Dev. Because a week ago, this was a hope with a download button that did not exist yet. And tonight, a family almost anywhere on earth can open the app store and find us there. 175 countries. And here is the road in
one breath, because the road matters tonight. KinsLe was submitted on November 3rd, 2026. It was approved on November 6th, 2026, at 208 in the afternoon, eastern time, after about 25 minutes in review. 25 minutes, months of building, years of dreaming, and then 25 minutes that changed everything. I still cannot get over that. 25 minutes. Somebody on the other side of that review opened the app, looked at what this team built for pet families and said, yes, this belongs in the world. And by that evening, it did. It belonged to everybody. It belonged to everybody. That is exactly how it felt from where I was standing. Our guest tonight needs almost no introduction to long-time listeners, because she was with us for the App Live celebration, and we asked her straight back,
Harper is a rescue volunteer and one of the weightless families who believed before there was anything to download, and she is a voiced character created from the experience of real founding members and real rescue volunteers. She is not a real person, but the weekend she is describing is the real launch weekend, and the joy in it is very real. Harper, welcome back to Kintalk. Thank you, Maya. Thank you, Dev. When you called and said tonight is the celebration episode, I said yes before you finished the sentence. Some episodes you make, this one you attend. Like a wedding, like a homecoming, I have been waiting to say these words on this show for a long time. We are live. We are live. Harper, take us to your phone on Friday afternoon. Where were you when the
approval landed? I was at the rescue of all places, which is exactly right. I was cleaning a kennel run, my phone was face down on a shelf, and it started buzzing and did not stop. Group chats, messages, people I have not heard from in months, approved, live. And I stood there in my rescue boots, holding a hose, crying a little and laughing a lot, because the thing we had all been telling adopters about, the thing we kept describing in the future tense, suddenly had a present tense. I could point at it. I could say, it is there. Go and see. The future tense retiring, that is the whole weekend in one image. Every conversation this community has had for months was in the future tense. When it launches, when you can
download it, when your pet can have a profile, and this weekend, sentence by sentence, conversation by conversation, the future tense clocked out. And in its place, the present tense, which is a beautiful tense. Your pet has a profile, present tense. The circle of love is watching your street, present tense. Kinny and Kimmy are awake in the app day and night, present tense, K-I-N-S-L-E, present tense, 175 countries wide. Let us talk about who this weekend belongs to, because a launch can look from the outside like it belongs to the people who built the app. And it does belong to them, and we will come to the builders. But I want to start with the families who believed before there was anything to download. The waitlist families? Oh, Maya, yes, start there.
The waitlist families signed up for a promise. There was no app to try, no profile to build, nothing to tap. There was a mission and a sentence. They are more than pets, they are kin. And people read that sentence and said, yes, that is how it is in my house, too. Put my name down. Belief before evidence. That is the rarest kind of belief there is, and this whole launch stands on it. I was one of them, and I can tell you what we were actually doing while we waited. We were rehearsing. Every time a dog at the rescue went home with a folder of photocopied records, I rehearsed. Someday this travels with a dog properly. Every time a lost pet post went up in a neighborhood group and 300 people shared it into the wind, I rehearsed. Someday there is
a circle for this, a real one that knows the pet by name. The waitlist was not a line, it was a rehearsal room. And this weekend, the curtain went up. A rehearsal room. I am keeping that. And alongside the families, the organizations who stood with KinsLe before standing with KinsLe was easy. Harper, you live in that world. Tell them about the rescues, the shelters, and the businesses. Gladly, a rescue runs on trust and fumes in that order. When a rescue or a shelter puts its name next to something new, it is spending the most precious currency it has, which is the trust of its adopters. And rescues shelters and pet businesses stood with KinsLe early, when all we could show them was the mission and the work in progress.
The groomer who said, my clients will love profiles that travel. The shelter director who said, if a pet story can follow the pet, adoptions get safer and returns get rarer. They did not wait to see if it would succeed. They lent it their names so that it could. Partners is the right word, and I am honored to say it on air. Partners. Honored is the word the founder himself uses about them, and listeners will hear that in his own voice before this episode ends. They will. Stay with us for that. Now, Harper, let us celebrate the thing itself for a while, because tonight we are allowed to simply delight in it. A real profile for your kin. Not a folder, not a thread of texts, not a shoebox. A living profile that holds their health,
their records, their story, and stays with them wherever life takes them. Wherever life takes them, that clause is the whole ball game for rescue work. A pet's life can change hands. A family changes. A home changes. A new chapter opens. Sometimes with joy and sometimes with heartbreak. And the profile, the health, the records, the story, the quirks, the favorite toy, the thing that calms them at the vet, all of it travels with the pet instead of evaporating. The next family does not start from a blank page and a guess. They start from the whole story. I have handed over enough blank pages in my life to know what a mercy that is. And woven through the profile, the safety net with a heart, the circle of love. Say more about the circle tonight,
because on launch weekend, the circle stopped being a feature description and became a population. Real people in real neighborhoods, joining a network whose entire job is to show up when a pet is lost. That is the part that makes me emotional, if I am honest. A lost pet alert answered by strangers who signed up to be answerers. That is who the circle is. Pet lovers with no pet of their own, standing in the network next to owners with three. Every account makes the circle stronger. And this weekend, the circle got its first great wave of strength, not in a plan, not in a projection, in actual phones, in actual neighborhoods. Somewhere tonight, there is a street where a dog will someday slip a gate. And the circle is already there, already named, already ready. The dog does not know it yet.
His family does not know it yet. But launch weekend built them a net they will only ever hear about on the happiest possible terms, which is the day it catches. The net is built before the fall. That is what celebration actually means here, not confetti for its own sake. A net, finished, hanging ready over real streets. And two more members of the family to toast before we go deeper, because they are awake tonight in the app and greeting people as we speak. Kinny and Kimmy. Kinny and Kimmy. The Robo Pups grew up and got jobs. They did. Inside KinsLe, every member meets Kinny and Kimmy, the built-in assistants who are there to help day and night. Questions at midnight, organizing on a Sunday, a hand with the ordinary puzzles of pet life. And tonight, they are not a promise in a keynote.
They are on duty in the live app in 175 countries. On duty. I love that the celebration includes two small robot pups clocking in for their first weekend shift. Harper, when you picture this launch five years from now, what do you think we will say this weekend actually was? The weekend, the tense changed. I keep coming back to that. Before Friday, KinsLe was the future. A beautiful, well-built future that we described to each other. After Friday, it is the present. And the present compounds. Profiles get richer. The circle gets wider. Every pet introduced is a pet who is known. And known is what brings them home. Five years from now, I think we will say that was the weekend a million small kindnesses got their infrastructure.
A million small kindnesses got their infrastructure. Harper, that might be the best sentence ever spoken on the show. And we have had some sentences. Let us spend a moment on the builders because celebration includes gratitude with names on it. A small team carried this from an idea to an approved app in the store. Designers, engineers, the app team, the people who tested build after build and reported what wobbled. And behind all of it, one founder who would not let the standard drop whose rule the team can recite in its sleep. Ultra premium, nothing less, no shortcuts. And it shows, Dev. It shows in the way the app feels when you hold it. Nothing about it feels rushed to the finish line. It feels carried
to the finish line. Carefully, by people who understood what it was for. Pets are not a market to this team. They are family members with shorter lifespans and better hearts than most of us. And the work treats them that way in every screen. Carefully and correctly, the founders club is not something that happens to the first 1000 members. So let me say exactly how it works, because the how is the whole point. You download KinsLe, you make your account, and then you claim a founders club seat on purpose by choosing the family large plan or the business plan at its one year price and paying it once. Family large is 179.99. Business is 899.99. One payment, once. And that plan is yours for life. It is never built again.
Only 1000 of those seats exist. First come, first served. And when they are gone, they are gone. That door has my name on it next, Maya. I have not joined the founders club yet. And I am going to. I will join on purpose while the seats are still there. And I want the families listening tonight to join me. That is what a founders club seat is. A signature you choose. It says I was here at the beginning on purpose. Years from now, when KinsLe is simply how pet care works, there will be 1000 signatures at the bottom of the first page. And I want mine to be one of them. And a seat is more than a plan. Founders carry the founders badge, a numbered seat, one through 1000 on the permanent founders wall. A seat in the private members only group
with direct access to the founder. And a place on the quarterly live video call with him. One payment, a lifetime signature. Decorner. 30 seconds. Because this show keeps its promises precisely. KinsLe is live on the app store tonight. Android is on its way. And when we say on its way, we mean exactly that. On its way. Not here yet. When Android lands, this show will throw it its own party. Probably with Harper back in that chair. I will bring the same rescue boot. She will bring the boots. Friends, we have celebrated the road, the families, the partners, the circle, the pups and the door, 1000 seats. What remains is the voice this whole mission started with. In a moment, you will hear from the founder himself, in his own recorded words from launch night,
the segment he recorded for this celebration, thanking the families who believed the rescues, the shelters and the businesses standing with KinsLe and the family at home who shared him with this mission. We would not dream of paraphrasing him tonight. So Harper, one last word from the guest chair before we hand over the floor.
Just this. To everybody who waited, rehearsed, let their name or simply believed the sentence, they are more than pets. They are kin. Thank you. The curtain is up. Come and see what you built. And Maya, Dev, thank you for letting a rescue volunteer with hose water on her boots. Co-host the best weekend of the year. The boots are canon now Harper. Thank you. And now the founder himself. Here is Lagerik Gantt, LG founder of KinsLe with his founders take on the weekend. KinsLe went live before we hand over the floor one more picture of this weekend because it is the picture I keep coming back to 175 countries means 175 mornings. While we were sleeping here, families on the other side of the world were waking up to
find KinsLe waiting in their app store in their morning with their pets blinking at them over breakfast. Launch day did not happen once. It happened in a wave time zone by time zone, kitchen by kitchen, leash by leash. A wave of mornings. The sun kept rising on new KinsLe members all weekend long. And it is still rising on them tonight. And in every one of those kitchens, the same small ceremony, a download, a name typed in, a photo chosen, the true one, the one where the ears do the thing, a profile born. It does not sound like a world changing when you say it that quietly, but multiply name, a face, and a story kept properly by every family doing it in their own morning. And that is exactly what a world changing sounds like. It sounds like breakfast.
It sounds like breakfast. Harper, when this show needs a poet, we know which rescue to call. Hello everybody. This is LeGarrett Gantt, LG, founder and CEO of KinsLe. Today is the day. KinsLe is live on the app store. I built KinsLe out of love, plain and simple, because our pets aren't pets. They are family. They are kin. It's not an advanced waiting room. With your heart pounding, holding them close and praying they are okay. If you've ever driven through your neighborhood calling their name terrified, you may never see them again. Then you already know you would do anything for them. But the tools out there wasn't built for people who feel that way. So we built one that is with that kind of love and every
part of it. Inside, KinsLe, you'll meet Kenny and Kimmy, who are there to help you day and night. You'll find real profiles for your kin, their health, their records, their story. That stays with them wherever life takes them. You'll find the circle of love, our community, that shows up when a pet is lost. You'll find memorials that honors the ones that we've lost and loved. And you'll find thousands of businesses and rescues, all in one place. To every family that joined the wait list, thank you for believing in our mission before there was anything to download. To the rescues, shelters, and businesses standing with us. We're honored to have you as partners. To my family, thank you. There have been many long days, many frustrating moments, but we made it.
Thank you. And to Jai, who's been right there next to me through it all. Thanks, buddy.
Now, here's what I'm asking. Go to the App Store, download KinsLe, that's K-I-N-S-L-E, and create your kin's profile today. And if you want to be a part of history, join our Founders Club. It's open to the first 1,000 members, lifetime membership, and when those seats are gone, they're gone for life. We reach one million kin, and we will. You will be able to say that you are there from the very beginning.
This is just the beginning. Thank you for being a part of it. There are more than just past their kin. And to Maya and Dev, thank you for what you do for KinsLe every single night.
Hey, Maya and Dev, there's one other person I want to thank, Max. He's our co-founder, and he's always working behind the scenes, putting in tireless efforts and countless hours. Thank you, buddy. We're going to take it to one million and more. Let's do this. Thanks, team.
That was LeGarrett Gantt in his own voice. On the weekend, his app went live. Thank you, LG, for the mission, for the standard, and for those thanks, which this team accepts on behalf of everybody listening. So here is where a celebration becomes an invitation, and it is a short one. KinsLe, K-I-N-S-L-E, is live on the app store, free to download in 175 countries. Download it tonight. Build your kin's profile. Join the circle. And if you want your signature on the first page, the Founders Club is open to the first 1000 members who join. One more time for everyone driving, walking a very good dog, or folding laundry with us at midnight. KinsLe, K-I-N-S-L-E, live now. The rehearsal is over. The curtain is up,
and your pet's whole story has a home. They are more than pets. They are kin. Tonight, that sentence has an address in the app store. Good night, everyone. Take care of your kin, and thank you for being part of day one. Good night. K-I-N-S-L-E. KinsLe. We will see you tomorrow night on kin-