Sightline · Treatment monitoring
Is the treatment
actually working?
A way to see whether your pet's treatment is working, measured week by week rather than recalled from memory. Short check-ins become the Sightline Score, a single trajectory you and your vet can read at a glance.
Whether your pet is recovering from an operation, starting a new pain medication, or living with a chronic condition, Sightline charts the response over time. A real improvement, a flare-up, or a slow decline shows up against a baseline, instead of being guessed at.
Sightline Score · 8 weeks · Spaniel · 9yr 2mo · weekly capture · 14-item subset of 44
A good week, or a bad one?
When you see your pet every day, it is genuinely hard to tell a good week from a bad one. Treatment response is gradual, and memory smooths it out: you remember how they were yesterday far more clearly than how they were a month ago.
Your vet sees fifteen-minute snapshots, often weeks apart. Between appointments, the question of whether the medication is helping, or whether the recovery is on track, falls to you to judge with little to measure it against.
Sightline gives that judgement a baseline. The same short assessment each week, scored the same way and plotted as a single line, so the direction of travel is visible to both of you.
Built and signed by
Sightline is built by ConciergeVet, a UK veterinary practice run by Alastair and Claire Greenway. Both have spent years asking owners variations of "how has she been?" in the consult room, and watching how hard that question is to answer well from memory alone.
Who this is for
Four reasons owners track treatment.
After an operation
Track recovery week by week and surface setbacks early, while there is still time to act on them.
From a cruciate repair to a difficult dental, the first weeks are when a complication is easiest to miss and most worth catching.
Starting a new pain medication
Watch the response over the first weeks, so a dose that is working, or one that is not, becomes clear rather than uncertain.
A new anti-inflammatory or adjunct can take a fortnight to show its effect; the trajectory makes that effect legible.
Arthritis or chronic pain
Follow the progression and the treatment effect over months, against a real baseline instead of an impression.
Slow change is the hardest to see day to day, and the easiest to read as a single line across a season.
Recurring conditions
Catch shifts in the trajectory before they become worrying, and bring the evidence to your vet.
For flare-prone conditions, an early upward turn is a cue to act sooner rather than wait and see.
How it works
A weekly check-in. A score. A trajectory.
Each week, Sightline asks a short adaptive subset of its 44-item assessment, tailored to your pet's species, age, and condition. Twelve to sixteen questions, three to five minutes, in plain English.
Each item lands in one of eight clinical domains: mobility, comfort and rest, activity and engagement, eating and drinking, demeanour, toileting, grooming, and the activities you choose to track yourself. A weighted composite produces the Sightline Score, on a 0-to-100 scale where lower is better.
A single score is a data point. A series across weeks is a trajectory, and the trajectory is what tells you whether the treatment is working. When a treatment is doing its job, the curve falls, and that is a reassuring thing to be able to see.
A worked example
Eight weeks after a cruciate repair.
One dog's recovery, week by week. No single check-in tells the story, but the line does.
- Week 1The first week home after surgery. Comfort is low, and that is exactly what you would expect it to be.
- Week 3The pain plan settles in and the line starts to fall, sooner than memory alone would have noticed.
- Week 5A brief flare after a little too much, too soon, visible the week it happens rather than weeks later.
- Week 8Back into the good band, with the whole recovery on record to bring to the post-op check.
Labrador · 6yr · weekly capture · post-operative subset
The Sightline Report
When you are ready for the next appointment, Sightline produces a short, dense PDF your vet can read in sixty seconds: the Score, the trajectory across the weeks since treatment began, the per-domain breakdown behind this week's number, and your own cover note. For tracking a treatment, it is the evidence of how things have actually gone, rather than a recollection of it.
Vet-built and signed
What your vet wishes they had time for.
Sightline is built and signed by working vets. The assessment is drafted from the published veterinary literature on pain and quality of life, and a clinician stands behind the methodology, which is published in full. It works alongside your vet, never in place of them.
Informed by published veterinary literature; not an externally validated diagnostic instrument; does not replace your vet's judgement.
Questions
Common questions about tracking treatment.
How often should I check in?
Weekly is the usual rhythm for treatment monitoring: often enough to catch a change, not so often that it becomes a chore. Sightline sends a gentle reminder, and a missed week does not break the trajectory.
What does a rising score mean?
A higher score means more signs of pain or reduced quality of life, so a rising line is a prompt to look closer. One higher week can simply be a bad day; two in a row is worth raising with your vet.
When should I take this to my vet?
Whenever the trajectory worries you, or ahead of a scheduled review. The Sightline Report turns weeks of check-ins into a single page your vet can read in under a minute, so the appointment starts from evidence rather than memory.
Can Sightline tell me whether the treatment is working?
It shows you the direction of travel, clearly and honestly, in either direction. The clinical judgement stays with your vet; Sightline gives you both something measured to base it on.
What if we change the medication partway through?
Keep checking in as before. The trajectory will show how your pet responds to the change against the weeks that came before it, which is exactly the comparison that is otherwise so hard to make.
The wider picture
Alongside Sightline.
PAWSCHECK
Sightline tracks how your pet seems to you, week to week. If you also want an objective measure of how they are moving, PAWSCHECK analyses gait from a smartphone video and gives a vet-reviewed read.
PetsLikeMine
Sightline is the weekly clinical measurement. If you also want daily support and others who understand what you are going through, PetsLikeMine is a place to live with the condition day to day.
Ready when you are.
Free to track your pet, with your first signed Sightline Report included. No card needed. Your data stays yours, and you can leave at any time.