Every one of these cats was on a kill list.
Feral cats can't be adopted, so a shelter puts them down within days. Cat City fixes them, collars them, and puts them to work. Scroll — she's wearing it.
Feral cats can't be adopted, so a shelter puts them down within days. Cat City fixes them, collars them, and puts them to work. Scroll — she's wearing it.
A Meshtastic LoRa node on a breakaway collar — snaps under load, so no snag can hurt her. GPS, a climate sensor, a tiny vibration motor. $0 a month, no tower, no cell plan.
Below that line they out-breed you. Above it, births stop and an outdoor colony ages out in about twelve years — no round-ups, no euthanasia, and a count the council can check.
Three weeks of buzz-before-food and she walks into the feed station on command — battery swaps and vet checks with no re-trapping. Litter at the base station earns a treat. They learn it fast.
A colony in a bad spot — a highway edge, a demolition lot — moves as a family to a safer site, and the collars mean nobody gets lost in the move. Where they park at 3 AM is where the rats are; heat, air and a ground-floor radio map ride along. Meet the night shift.
Sterilized, vaccinated, collared, placed with a host who feeds them. Breweries, logistics yards, grain stores, city corp yards. Every working cat was on a shelter's kill list the week before.
The pigeons sign themselves up by the hundreds — the pigeon community is back to work, and word got out fast. The deer would rather not. The cats show up for the buzz and pretend the whole thing was their idea. That's fine. That's the data.
A solar LoRa node on the parapet hears every collar on the block. No towers, no SIM cards, no monthly bill.
Shift starts
at dusk.
Off the roof. She knows the way down.
Every hop is a position ping. The mesh learns the colony's real paths, not the ones on the city map.
Breakaway collar, under 30 grams, wakes for a fix and goes back to sleep.
Where the cats stop is where the rats are. That map is the one the city pays for.
Fixed, tracked, fed, and paid in rats. Every working cat came off a kill list.
Every fixed cat gets the tip, so no cat is ever trapped twice. Collars go on working cats at fenced private sites and owned community cats — Phase 1, and only where the TNR partner says yes.
TNR + tracked working cats. The 90-day pilot, the clinic, the budget, the jobs.
Your modern-day carrier pigeon. Rooftop heat, air, wind and a mesh that survives the towers.
The herd draws the map. Corridors, crossings, bear alerts, trailhead tags, drone-hung tree nodes.
Covered litter box on a sensor pad next to the feeder; a treat drops when the collared cat uses it. Cats that go at base means no garden complaints — the thing that keeps a TNR program politically alive.
Meals, litter use and weight per cat log themselves. That's free welfare data, and it's the same feed the vet checks run off.
Care & training →
The shelter and the TNR partner trap, fix and hold the cats. We supply the collars, the gateways, the dashboard and the report.
Thermal mapping, licensed burrow treatment, working cats. Three detail pages.
Ground-to-roof heat, air, RF coverage, welfare — who uses it, how it's delivered.
The colony numbers, the 80 % threshold, and what the 90-day pilot measures.
Vet students under a supervising DVM, the Sprinter, the grant stack.
Caretakers and collar builders hired through city programs. Head of Program is open now.
Weight limits, breakaway only, harness checks, feeding ordinances, owned birds first.
The colony collar has a consumer twin. Petfindr is a 30-gram LoRa tag on a normal collar — no cell plan, no subscription — and every Cat City node, pigeon and drone in town is already listening for it. Your cat wanders; the mesh says where. Pet owners fund the network the strays ride on.
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Every node relays for every other. A cat in a storm drain reaches a cat on a fence; a pigeon on the ledge hears both; a chimney receiver on Wi-Fi puts it on the map; a drone parked at 400 ft hears the whole district.
The whole network on one dashboard. Concept render — tap to open full size.
The collars, gateways and drone that track cats are the same nodes that log rat hotspots, air quality and radio coverage. Sterilized working cats plus mapped, licensed burrow treatment replaces broadcast rodenticide. One day-90 packet — colony count, sterilization %, burrow before/after, heat data, jobs placed — for one council vote.
Artificial Mind Hive is a California software shop already running computer vision and edge infrastructure in production. The founder has watched these colonies work parks, lots and warehouse yards for 30 years.
Start the 90-day pilotThe colony collar has a consumer twin. Petfindr is a 30-gram LoRa tag on a normal collar — no cell plan, no subscription — and every Cat City node, pigeon and drone in town is already listening for it. Your cat wanders; the mesh says where. Pet owners fund the network the strays ride on. And no — you don't have to tag the silly ones (the pigeons, the deer, the bear). Your own cat sits for it. Mostly.
Every city funds stray-cat control today. None of them can see the result. Cat City is the map, the mesh and the crew that makes the number go down.

Ear-tip is the ID, the collar is the radio. Breakaway only. Buzz-before-food means we never trap the same cat twice: we call it.

Breakaway strap, a solar strip, a LoRa radio the size of a thumbnail, a buzz motor for recall. Under 30 grams. It talks to every other collar, every pigeon and every chimney box in range.

Five cats is a mesh. A thousand is a city that can see itself. Every collar relays for the others, so the map fills in from the edges.

Tracked TNR colonies at street level, breakaway collars, buzz-before-food recall so no cat is ever trapped twice. The layer the city pays for, because it is the one that ends the problem.

Thermal drone sweeps find every burrow. A licensed operator eliminates; working cats and re-sweeps keep it empty. Chicago spends $12.5-14.9M a year losing this fight.

Owned club birds with 15-gram solar nodes on the ledges cats cannot reach. Three thousand per city, a relay blanket nobody can switch off.

Caretakers, field techs and builders hired through the city's own programs; a free text network on Lifeline phones for the unhoused; pet food and basic care for owners who need it; every cat we find adoptable.


TNR + tracking pilot + a report the council can vote on. Breakaway collars, vibration recall, ear-tip ID, litter stations. Cats →

Thermal drone night sweeps, licensed treatment subcontracted, working cats and re-sweeps. Rodents → · Thermal · Contracts

12-15 g solar tags, feed stations that check them, the math on 3,000 birds per city. Pigeons → · PidgeyFLok

Final-year students earn surgical hours fixing colony cats under a supervising DVM; basic shots and treatment for every animal. Clinic →

Crate acclimation, buzz-before-food, the daily/weekly/monthly schedule, pet food for owners who need it. Care →

Every role, its cost and its funder: animal grants, workforce grants, sponsors, the city. Budget → · Careers

Ground-to-roof temperature, air, rodent hotspots, RF dead zones, welfare alerts. Data →

NYC $53.7M/yr, Miami-Dade $39.7M/yr, Chicago $14.85M/yr on rats, SF $11M/yr, the cities' own numbers, charted. Studies →

Caretakers, builders, field techs, data checkers through Human Services, CalWORKs, recovery and neurodivergent employment. Jobs →
Every node relays for every other. A cat in a storm drain reaches a cat on a fence; a pigeon on the ledge hears both; a chimney receiver on Wi-Fi puts it on the map; a drone parked at 400 ft hears the whole district.

New York's shelter contract averages $53.7M a year; Miami-Dade Animal Services is $39.7M and holds 500,000 stray cats "steady"; Chicago spends $12.5-14.9M a year on rats and its own audit says the plan is unlikely to work; San Francisco runs Animal Care & Control on $11M. Targeted, tracked TNR has a published end-state: intake down 66 %, euthanasia down 95 % in two years in the treated area.
Sources on the studies page: NYC Comptroller 2025, Miami-Dade FY23-24 adopted budget, Block Club Chicago / The Center Square, SF Chronicle, Levy et al. 2014.
≈ $75,000 all-in with labor, training, boarding, surgery and margin. 20 collars, 5 gateways, one colony, a TNR partner, a caretaker on it every day, and a report the council can vote on. Every line item →
1,000 tracked cats, 3,000 pigeon nodes, 50 gateways, the map, the monthly report, a warehouse that holds, trains and neuters on site. $520,000 if the city lends an unused building.
Fully loaded, warehouse included. The shelter line works out to ~$1,400 per animal handled. We are not competing with the shelter; we make it smaller.
A letter of support, an intro to Animal Services, one city roof for a gateway, and the name of the grant program. Have an unused building? Lend it as the hub and the price drops.
Warehouses, breweries and logistics yards: working cats against rats, a chimney receiver on your Wi-Fi, a dashboard for your block.
TNR + tracked working cats. The 90-day pilot, the clinic, the budget, the jobs.

Your modern-day carrier pigeon. Rooftop heat, air, wind and a mesh that survives the towers.

The herd draws the map. Corridors, crossings, bear alerts, trailhead tags, drone-hung tree nodes.
Trap · Neuter · Track · Return, recall, litter station, the 90-day ask.
Thermal mapping, licensed treatment, working cats. Three detail pages.
Vet students, a supervising DVM, the Sprinter, the grant stack.
Training timeline, feeding, adoption, the collar hardware.
Eleven positions, every salary and its funder.
Ground-to-roof heat, air, RF coverage, welfare, other city uses.
Staffed through city programs.
Coverage math, the loft, welfare rules, costs.
Yosemite SAR numbers, the free trailhead tag, drone nodes, the state contract.
The reading version: kill-list truth, four programs, who's behind it.
The colony collar has a consumer twin. Petfindr is a 30-gram LoRa tag on a normal collar — no cell plan, no subscription — and every Cat City node, pigeon and drone in town is already listening for it. Your cat wanders; the mesh says where. Pet owners fund the network the strays ride on.
Every node relays for every other. A cat in a storm drain reaches a cat on a fence; a pigeon on the ledge hears both; a chimney receiver on Wi-Fi puts it on the map; a drone parked at 400 ft hears the whole district.
Sky, roof and street layers on one dashboard. The whole network in one picture. Concept render — tap to open full size.
The collars, gateways and drone that track cats are the same nodes that log rat hotspots, air quality and radio coverage. Sterilized working cats plus mapped, licensed burrow treatment replaces broadcast rodenticide. One day-90 packet — colony count, sterilization %, burrow before/after, heat data, jobs placed — for one council vote.
Artificial Mind Hive is a California software shop already running computer vision and edge infrastructure in production. The founder has watched these colonies work parks, lots and warehouse yards for 30 years.
Start the 90-day pilot