Today we're announcing a $10 million Letter of Intent (LOI) with CaniOps — a strategic partnership to deploy General Sense's Nose-Computer Interface (NCI) alongside one of Europe's most experienced detection-canine teams.
This is a milestone for us, and we couldn't have chosen a better European partner to expand our markets with.
When we first met Tatiana (the co-owner), we could immediately tell that she sees her craft through a scientific lens, employing a deep understanding of animal ethology and decades of experience that culminated in their standing in the European K9 ecosystem.
CaniOps is one of the most respected detection-canine operators in Europe.
Tatiana and Thomas employs a team that has spent years mastering the craft that most people never see: how to select the right dog, how to shape independent and reliable odor work, how to transition a dog between handlers without losing performance, and how to keep a detection team sharp across the messy, high-stakes environments.
Their training philosophy produces dogs that are more independent, more transferable, and more consistent across teams.
CaniOps co-founder Thomas is also a former French special operations operator, and the team's roots in that world still shape everything they do. In special operations, their dogs are whose signal you stake lives on. That is the standard CaniOps was forged in, and it's why elite operators on the continent trust them. Earning the right to build with a team that carries that trust is not something we take lightly.
They bring decades of hard-won operational K9 expertise, training craft, handler insight, field-validation discipline, and a deep European customer network spanning law enforcement, customs and border security, defense, aviation, and private security. They know exactly what breaks in the field, what handlers actually trust, and what it takes to turn a new capability into something deployable.
General Sense brings the breakthrough, but Tatiana and Thomas will help it become a product, and why we're genuinely excited to build the next era of detection dogs with them.
Beyond the core deployment, both teams share a directional interest in building something larger together: joint R&D and field validation, training and calibration protocols purpose-built for the NCI platform, and the possibility of establishing a European Center of Excellence for enhanced detection-canine training, validation, and deployment.
For a century, the detection dog has been one of the most extraordinary sensors on the planet — and one of the hardest to scale. Every new threat meant months of imprinting. Every dog was locked to a handful of targets and, often, a single handler.
One of the most important aspects of building a product like this is understanding how working dogs now are going to change when the tool evolves.
All the skills that a working dog will acquire will now be scalable and transferrable across every dog in the network: When one dog "learns," the rest of the dogs in the network also acquire the ability.
Understanding how to make the most of this scalability is something that we're excited to build together.
Allons-y!
