Two vets.
One big idea.

Before vet school, Shaan was writing code for a corporate law firm in New Zealand. She has a programmer's brain and a vet's hands - a surprisingly useful combination for figuring out what AI can actually do.

She qualified from Massey in 2018 and spent years doing equine dentistry and animal rehabilitation before relocating to Brisbane, where she runs a mobile equine and canine practice specialising in biomechanical medicine.

She's been playing with AI tools since before most people could spell ChatGPT. Her natural habitat is somewhere between building a thing and explaining that thing to someone who didn't ask to know how it worked. Classic tinkerer.

South African by birth, Kiwi by upbringing, Australian by recent decision. Trail runner, triathlete, dog sports competitor. Her border collie Piper has opinions about all of it. Currently between horses. She maintains this is temporary.

Deb graduated from Massey vet school “last century” - her words, not ours. Since then she's collected a Masters from Glasgow, a PhD from Massey, a Masters in Osteopathy from Unitec, and a list of certifications that runs longer than most people's entire CVs.

She does veterinary rehabilitation and osteopathy across the Manawatu and surrounding regions - dogs, cats, horses, and anything else that needs to move better. She lives on a lifestyle block with horses, dogs, and some sheep.

She came to AI the way most of us do: too much to do, not enough hours in the day. But once she committed, she got strategic fast. That PhD brain doesn't waste time.

She is the proof that you don't need to be a tech person. You just need to be curious enough to press the buttons.