"I wasn't looking to start a supplement company. I was just a dog owner watching my two Labs get older and wondering why nobody had figured out a better answer."

— Cody, Co-founder, Companion

By the time Cody's two Labradors reached seven and nine years old, the signs were impossible to ignore. One was scratching constantly — hot spots, chronic ear infections, skin that never quite settled. The other had started hesitating at the stairs. Not dramatically, but the kind of slow, quiet change every dog owner eventually learns to dread.

He took them to the vet. The bills added up — not catastrophically, but steadily. And what struck him was the timing of it all. Both dogs had been eating the same "premium" kibble for years — the kind marketed as complete and balanced. And yet here they were, with exactly the conditions that nutrition research directly links to the gaps premium kibble consistently fails to fill.

"I started reading the research," Cody says. "And what I found was genuinely surprising. Not because the science was obscure — it wasn't. What surprised me was how little of it had made its way into what dog owners are actually doing every day."

That question became Companion.