Companion is your AI assistant inside Scribenote. It amplifies your ability as a veterinary professional by helping you with documentation, research, client communication, and more. It's meant to support your clinical judgement (not replace it!) so you can spend more of your day focused on the patient in front of you.
Just open Companion inside Scribenote, ask for what you need, and the right assistant shows up: Quill 🦔 for documentation, Summi 🐘 for patient histories, and Sage 🐢 for research. Otto 🐕 will also show up from time to time to manage the other Companions and provide support.
The vets who get the most out of Companion are the ones who treat it like a colleague. They ask it for what they need, teach it how they work, and let it take tasks off their plate. This post will show you how, including what some vets have tried and the results they got. Your experience might look different depending on how you use it.
See what it can do
Before the appointment
Say you've got a new patient coming in for an allergy consult: a dog named Bella with a long history from another clinic. She's been licking her paws, she's itchy, and she keeps getting ear infections. You just got her records as a 30-page PDF, and you've got maybe 5 minutes before her appointment.
Instead of speed-reading and hoping you catch the important stuff, you upload the PDF to Companion and ask “I have an appointment with Bella this morning for an allergy flare-up. What do I need to know?” By the time you're back from grabbing your morning coffee, Summi 🐘 has pulled out everything you need to know about Bella's history before your appointment.
From there, you ask Companion to build you a dermatology template you can use in Bella's appointment. Quill 🦔 then makes you a template including pruritus scoring, seasonality, full dermatologic exam by region, and more.
During the appointment
You record the appointment in Scribenote like you normally would. It picks up everything, including the tape tests, the ear swabs, your decision to hold off on vaccines until she's feeling better, the medications you're sending her home with, and the client's decision to decline the 8-week food trial.
After the appointment
The client decides at the last minute that they want to try the prescription diet, so you tell Companion. Quill 🦔 offers to add the 8-week food trial to the plan section of your note, and you accept. Then, you ask Companion to put together a food trial handout in layman's terms. Quill 🦔 drafts you a plain-language handout explaining the 8-week food trial that you can give to your client.
You wonder, how does gut microbiome composition influence the development and severity of allergic skin conditions in dogs? So you ask Companion, and Sage 🐢 gives you the answer.
Finally, you generate a client summary from the note. Then, you ask Quill 🦔 to edit it to only include the diagnostics performed, medications prescribed, and what to watch for at home.
Your first week together
Think of Companion like a vet student on their first externship. They're smart, eager to learn, and helpful — but still learning how your clinic runs. It's going to get a lot right, but sometimes it won't, so always trust your own clinical judgement.
The good news is, Companion learns really fast. You only need to tell it something once, and it'll remember it. Your first week is when those lessons matter most, so it's best to teach it early:
- Tell it what you want it to remember. Companion has a memory, so if there's anything you'd like it to remember, it's as easy as telling it: “remember that my clinic uses Simparica Trio for heartworm prevention from May 1st to December 1st.” Next time it comes up, Companion already knows, so you don't have to mention it again.
- Be specific and provide context. “Write a discharge email for a diabetic cat going home on insulin” gives Companion a lot more to work with than “write a discharge email.” Think of it like briefing a colleague: the more they know, the better!
- Tell it what to change, not what you don't like. “Bold my note's subheadings” is easier for Companion to understand and act on than “this doesn't look right.”
- Start multiple chats at the same time. Ask Companion to draft a client email in one chat, look up a drug interaction in another. Companion takes its time to think through each task, so while one is working, you can start the next in parallel.
Most important: if you're not sure whether something is possible, ask anyway. Companion is designed to try before declining, and if it can't help, it'll point you somewhere useful.
Companion can already handle documentation, patient summaries, research, discharge instructions, dosing calculations, and more. And just like that extern who gets sharper every week, it's only going to get better as you teach it how you work.
Good to know
We're building this with you
Companion is new, and every vet's experience with it is going to look a little different. The way you use it, the results you get, and the things that surprise you are all going to depend on your workflow, your preferences, and what you ask it to do. We'd love to hear about it.
Send us a note at submissions@scribenote.com and tell us what your experience has been like. What did you use Companion for? What do you wish it could do? Your feedback directly shapes what we build next.
The short version
Companion lives inside and works alongside Scribenote. It fits right into your workflow before, during, and after the appointment. You simply ask for what you need, and the right Companion shows up to help. It remembers how you work so you don't have to repeat yourself, and it won't make clinical decisions, because those stay with you. You get 500 free Treats to start. Try it out, teach it how you work, and let us know how it goes! Get started today at app.scribenote.com.
