Adopt.app — From Intake to Forever Home
Adopt.app is a pet adoption platform that lets animal rescue organizations manage the full adoption lifecycle — from animal intake through family matching and post-adoption communication — while giving prospective adopters a simple way to discover animals and apply.
How Adopt.app Works
Intake
Rescue staff add animals to their inventory with photos, details, and document requirements.
Discover
Prospective adopters browse public pages to find animals looking for a home.
Apply
Families submit applications online with secure document upload — no paperwork shuffle.
Match
Staff process applications through clear state transitions with automated notifications along the way.
Adopt
Animals go home, and post-adoption conversations continue naturally over email.
What Adopt.app Does
Dual-Portal Experience
Public-facing pages let adopters discover animals and submit applications, while authenticated dashboards give rescue staff full control of inventory and operations.
Email-Native Conversations
Inbound email is parsed and routed to the right adoption application automatically, so families can have natural email conversations without being forced into the portal.
Complete Adoption Timeline
Every action generates an immutable activity record, giving each adoption a complete, auditable timeline from first inquiry to going home.
Multi-Agency Security
One platform securely serves many rescue organizations, with every record automatically isolated to its agency and coordination tools for multi-agency operations.
Secure Documents & Photos
Family documents, application attachments, and animal photos are stored separately with secure, time-limited access links.
Badges & Milestones
A flexible agency badge hierarchy supports breed-specific categorization and gamified milestones that celebrate each organization's impact.
Under the Hood
Adopt.app is a multi-tenant SaaS platform: an Angular front end over a .NET API and PostgreSQL, with event-sourced adoption timelines and serverless AWS pipelines handling email routing and secure media storage.
Built by Michael Bartlett
Adopt.app is designed and built by Michael Bartlett, a Cloud & AI Solutions Architect in Highlands Ranch, Colorado — built so rescue organizations can spend less time on paperwork and more time finding animals a home.