The independent surveyor for software.
Watchdog is built and operated by Canine Development, an independent software company in Denmark. We exist to do one thing well: measure code that one party builds for another, and issue a number both sides can trust — the Codebase Assurance Index. Not a consultancy that also grades its own work; a measurer with no stake in the result.
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Not a CI scanner or linterNever scores a line or blocks a merge.
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Not a SAST / dataflow engineReads their signal; doesn't out-depth one.
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Not a coding agentNever edits, commits, pushes or opens a PR.
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Not a certifierRecords the evidence; a named human signs.
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An independent surveyorOne altitude above your scanners.
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One reproducible CAISigned, commit-pinned — re-runs to the same number.
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A read-only oracleServes every finding to your agent over MCP.
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A whole-system surveyArchitecture, maturity, compliance & risk in one report.
Neutral by structure — the one thing a delivery vendor can't be.
An appraisal is only worth something because the appraiser is independent and paid the same either way. That independence isn't a promise on this page; it's how the company is built.
Canine Development never develops or consults on a codebase it also scores — never on both ends of one contract. We sell the thermometer, never the patient's treatment.
Our revenue is the subscription, identical whether a delivery passes or fails. The result we have no stake in is the one you can trust.
We measure and advise; we never commit, push, or edit your code. The hand on your code is always yours. How the remediation loop works →
Your code stays in the EU, on hardware we own.
No cloud provider in the path, and no third-party AI ever sees your code. The same stance that makes the measurement trustworthy makes it defensible to a European buyer, auditor or regulator.
- EU data residency Processed only on hardware we own in Denmark — no cloud provider in the path.
- No third-party AI The language model is self-hosted; your code is never sent to OpenAI, Anthropic or Google.
- Source never persisted Each scan clones, analyses, then deletes the working copy — and we never train on your code.
- Read-only by doctrine We measure and advise; we never commit, push, or edit your code.
Canine Development.
A registered software company in Denmark (CVR 42092134), in the EU. Watchdog is our product; the security & data statement sets out exactly what we access, store and delete, and the Data Processing Agreement is signable for customers who need one. Questions, due-diligence or an on-prem deployment — talk to us.