The user manual

One touch. That's the whole idea.

This page walks through a real day for a mobile vet, start to finish, and then through the things that go wrong on a real round. Every step below is something the app already does today. If you'd rather see it move than read about it, the demo takes three minutes.

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Before you leave the house

Your morning is already planned.

Open the app and today's round is already in order — who you're seeing, what for, and roughly when you'll get there. If something in the van is running low, it says so now, not halfway through Thursday's round when you actually need it.

Chiltern Mobile Vet — Tuesday
09:40
Marley — lameness recheck
OX14 · 7 minutes from the last stop
11:15
Nala — annual booster
First visit this year
13:30
Bramble — post-op check
14 days out from surgery
Low stock — Meloxicam, Amoxicillin. Reorder before Thursday's round.

How to run the morning

  1. Open Today

    It's the first tab, and it's where the app opens. Every visit booked for today is here, sequenced by where it is and what it needs rather than by who booked first.

  2. Check the reason on each stop

    The reason the client gave when they booked sits under the patient's name, so you know whether you're walking into a booster or a lameness workup before you knock.

  3. Deal with the stock warning now, not later

    If a medication you're going to need this week is short, it's flagged on this screen. That is the only moment in the day where reordering costs you nothing.

  4. Tap a visit when you arrive

    That opens the visit screen, which is where everything below happens. You do not need to "start" or "check in" to anything first.

You don't have to book through us. If your clients book by phone or text, add the visit yourself and the rest of the day works identically. The public booking page is there if you want it, not a condition of using anything else.

At the door

You talk to the client. The record writes itself.

Nothing about the visit changes. You still talk the client through what you're seeing, still show them the printout, still glance at the patient. The difference is what happens to all of that afterwards — click a card below to see it.

Speak, don't type

Talk through the consult like you would to a colleague

Recording… 4:12
Note drafted, waiting for your sign-off
Mild lameness, left hind · NSAID 5 days · recheck in 7
Two taps — start, and stop

Photograph anything

A lab printout, a repeat prescription, the patient itself

Lab printout, photographed
Patient: Marley WBC: 9.8 Lab: VetLab OX
Two taps to capture, two to confirm

Recording a consult, step by step

  1. Tap Start Recording on the visit screen

    Then put the phone down and be a vet. You do not need to hold it, point it at anything, or keep the screen awake — the app holds the screen awake for you while a recording is running.

  2. Talk normally

    Describe what you're finding as you find it, the way you'd narrate to a nurse. You don't need to say "subjective" or "objective" or speak in headings. Sorting it into a SOAP structure is the machine's job, not yours.

  3. Tap the button again to stop

    That is the second and last tap. The audio uploads, it's transcribed, and a SOAP note is drafted against this visit without you asking for it.

  4. Read the draft before you drive off

    It is a draft, and it is wrong sometimes. Correcting it now, while the consult is still in your head, takes seconds. Correcting it on Thursday takes a phone call.

If you get interrupted, you have not lost the recording. If a call comes in, the phone locks, or another app grabs the microphone, the app notices the recording stopped without you pressing stop, keeps whatever was captured, and tells you. Start recording again and it continues the same note — the pieces are stitched together into one transcript, not filed as two half-consults.
One app at a time can hold the microphone. This is a phone limitation, not ours. If you are on a video consultation, that call owns the mic and OneVet will record silence. We detect genuinely silent audio and tell you plainly rather than handing you an empty note — but for a remote consult, record on a second device or take the note by hand.

Photographing a document, step by step

  1. Open the camera from the visit

    There's a capture button on the visit screen. You can also pick something already in your photo library, or a PDF, instead of taking a new picture.

  2. Tap the shutter, then say what it is

    The app asks "What is this?" — a lab result, a vaccination card, a medication label, a referral letter, and so on. Telling it which is what makes the difference between a good read and a guess, because each type is read with its own instructions.

  3. Carry on with the visit

    Reading the image happens in the background. You do not wait for it, and you can photograph several things in a row.

  4. Tap the item when it says Tap to review, then Confirm

    You see exactly what it extracted before any of it reaches the patient record. Confirm it, correct it, or flag it. If a read looks thin, there's a "read it again more carefully" option that sends the same photo to a stronger model.

Nothing is saved behind your back. A photograph that has been read but not confirmed is sitting in a review queue, not in the patient's clinical record. That is deliberate: an unreviewed machine reading of a lab printout is a rumour, not a result.

One Vision is what reads the printout. You confirm what it found before anything is saved — it never writes to the record on its own.

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The part that matters most

Draft, sign, amend — and never quietly rewrite.

This is the section to actually read. Everything else on this page is convenience; this is the bit that decides whether your records hold up when somebody asks to see them.

1. A drafted note is not a clinical note. What comes back from a recording is a draft with your name nowhere on it. It has no standing until you have read it and signed it. The app never treats an unsigned draft as the record of what happened.
2. You have 48 hours to edit freely. Within 48 hours of a note being created you can change it as much as you like, and it simply updates. That window exists because real corrections — a misheard drug name, a transposed weight — nearly always surface the same day or the next.
3. After 48 hours, the note locks and edits become amendments. The original text stays exactly as it was, and your correction is added as a separate, dated amendment attached to it. You cannot overwrite it, and neither can we. This is not us being awkward: a clinical record that can be silently rewritten after the fact is worth nothing in a dispute, and amendments that obscure the original are specifically what professional record-keeping standards forbid.
4. Recording again after a lock adds, it does not replace. If you go back and record an addendum, it attaches to the same visit rather than creating a second competing note you'd never find.

What to do with a draft

  1. Read all four sections, not just the plan

    Subjective, objective, assessment, plan. The plan is the one you'll be tempted to skim to; the objective section is where a mis-transcribed number does the real damage.

  2. Check every number and every drug name out loud

    Doses, weights, concentrations and drug names are exactly where speech-to-text is weakest and where an error is least survivable. Treat them as unverified until you have looked at them.

  3. Edit anything that is wrong, in place

    Tap into the note and correct it. You are the author; the draft was a starting point.

  4. Sign it

    That is the moment it becomes the clinical record for this visit. If you want to see the raw words the recording actually produced, there's a "show recording words" toggle — the transcript is kept, so you can always compare the note against what was said.

The AI does not decide anything. It drafts language and structure. It does not diagnose, does not choose a treatment, does not set a price, and cannot file or send anything to a client. Every one of those is a human action. If a draft ever reads as though it has made a clinical decision for you, that is a bug and we want to hear about it — tell us from inside the app.

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Back in the van

There's no evening admin session waiting for you.

By the time you're pulling away, this visit is done — not "logged for later." Nothing here happens at a desk after hours.

M
Marley · Labrador, 7y
Home visit · Tue 09:40 · OX14
Discharge summary
Sent to Ivy before you pulled away
Invoice — £84.00
Priced from your own book · paid at the door
Client instructions
Sent home with the discharge notes
Visit closed
4 minutes of admin

Closing a visit, step by step

  1. Check the invoice against what you actually did

    Line items are drafted from the visit and priced from your own price book — not from a national average and not from ours. Add, remove, or reprice anything before it goes out.

  2. Take payment at the door, or send a link

    If you've connected Square you can take a card on the doorstep. If not, the invoice still exists and still goes out; card payment is an option, not a requirement.

  3. Send the discharge summary

    Written in plain language for the owner rather than in clinical shorthand, generated from the same visit. Read it before it goes — this is the document the client will actually act on at two in the morning.

  4. Drive on

    The visit is closed clinically and financially at the same moment. There is nothing left in a pile.

An estimate before, an invoice after. If you want the money agreed up front — a dental, a workup, anything where the number matters — you can generate the estimate from the same place, before you start. Neither one is retyped from the other.
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When you need a second opinion

Ask One reads your own records — not the internet's.

Some questions aren't about one patient. "Who's overdue a dental check?" "Which patients haven't been in since spring?" You ask it in plain words, the way you'd ask a colleague who happened to remember everyone's file.

Ask a plain question

Ask One → a ready recipient list

“Overdue dental checks?”
12 matches
Ivy W., Sam R., +10 more — ready to message, nothing sent yet
One tap, then ask in plain words

Questions worth asking it

It answers from your practice only. Ask One reads your own records and never another practice's. It is not a clinical search engine and not a textbook — if you ask it what dose to give, you are asking the wrong tool.
It drafts actions; it does not take them. Ask it to chase twelve overdue patients and you get a list and a drafted message, sitting there waiting. Nothing is sent until you send it.

The paperwork that has to be right

Consent, controlled drugs, and the records someone may ask to see.

Working out of a car does not lower the standard these have to meet. It just removes the filing cabinet you used to keep them in.

Consent

  1. Pick the kind of consent you need

    Treatment consent, euthanasia consent, or a risk acknowledgment when an owner declines something you have recommended. That last one protects you specifically, and it is the one people forget to record.

  2. Have the owner sign on the phone

    They sign with a finger, on the doorstep. The signature is stored as the actual path they drew, attached to that patient and that visit.

  3. It cannot be edited afterwards

    Same rule as a signed note: a consent record is added to, never overwritten. If circumstances change, you record a new one that references the old.

Controlled drugs

The controlled-drug log is append-only. Every entry stands, nothing is deleted, and a correction is a new entry rather than a rubbed-out line. That is the only form of register worth keeping, and it is the form an inspector expects.

Insurance

Claim packets are assembled from records you already wrote — the history, the notes, the invoice — instead of being retyped into an insurer's form at the end of the month.

Everything leaves with you. Clients, patients, visits, notes and invoices export in full, whenever you want, without asking us and without an exit conversation. The export is designed to be readable and to import back in, so it's a genuine copy of your practice rather than a defensive PDF dump.

When something goes wrong

On a real round, something will.

These are the actual failure modes, described honestly, with what to do about each. If yours isn't here, tell us from inside the app — that's how most of this list got written.

The note came back empty

Almost always this means the microphone genuinely captured silence — usually because another app had the mic, most often a video call. The app can tell true silence apart from a failed transcription and will say so rather than inventing a note.

What to do: check nothing else is using the mic, and re-record. Quiet audio is fine — it takes real silence to produce nothing.

The recording stopped and I didn't stop it

The phone locked, a call came in, or the OS reclaimed the microphone. Whatever had been captured up to that point is kept, not discarded.

What to do: start recording again on the same visit. The segments are merged into one transcript and one note.

I had no signal at the property

Be careful here, because we would rather tell you the awkward truth than a comfortable one. The visit notepad keeps working with no signal and syncs when you're back in range. Audio and photo uploads do not queue. If an upload fails, it fails then and there and offers you a retry.

What to do: don't leave the visit screen until the upload has gone through, or type into the notepad instead and record when you have bars.

The document read is wrong or half-empty

Some printouts are genuinely hard — faint thermal paper, a photo at an angle, an unusual lab layout.

What to do: use the option to read it again more carefully, which sends the same photo to a stronger model. If it's still wrong, correct the fields by hand and flag it. Flagged reads are how the prompts get improved.

I need to change a note that's more than 48 hours old

You can't overwrite it, by design. Add an amendment: the original stands, your correction is attached and dated, and anyone reading the record later sees both.

Something is just wrong and I want a human

Use the feedback button inside the app. It goes to the people building this, not to a ticket queue, and you can speak it rather than type it. Replies show up as a message in the app.

This is beta software and we say so on the front page. Things will be rough in places. What you get in exchange is that when you report something, it is usually fixed within days, by the people who wrote it, and you'll be told when it ships.

Getting started

Your first week, in the order that actually works.

Don't migrate everything on day one. Run one real visit end to end first — it tells you more than a weekend of setup.

Day one

Once that's worked

Run it alongside what you have for a fortnight. We'd genuinely rather you did that than switched on a promise. If it isn't saving you the evening, it isn't working, and we want to know why.

What the words mean

Nine terms, plainly.

Visit
One clinical encounter with one patient. Everything — recording, note, photos, consent, invoice — hangs off it.
SOAP note
Subjective, objective, assessment, plan. The clinical record of a visit, drafted by the app and signed by you.
Draft
A note that has not been signed. It is not yet the record of anything.
Amendment
A dated correction attached to a note that's past its 48-hour edit window. It never replaces the original.
Capture
A photograph or PDF you've taken into a visit — a lab printout, a vaccination card, a med label.
Ask One
The assistant that answers plain-English questions about your own practice records.
One Voice
Talking instead of typing — the consult recording that becomes the note and the invoice.
One Vision
Photographing instead of typing — the document reading that becomes fields on the record.
Price book
Your own prices for your own services. Invoices and estimates are built from it, never from anyone else's.

Straight answers

The questions everyone actually asks.

Does the AI decide anything?

No. It drafts, you sign. Nothing is filed or sent to a client until you confirm it.

Can I leave with my data?

Any time, in full, without asking us. Clients, patients, visits, notes and invoices.

What state is it in?

Beta, honestly. Notes, invoicing, payments, routing, consent, documents, the client companion and export work today.

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