Licensing & citation
Cite the method, freely
Growlrr publishes its methodology openly — the BARC Protocol, the Hepatic Buffering Model, the Stochastic Reliability Framework and the validation results — so writers, vets and researchers can read it, quote it and build on it. This page explains what is licensed for reuse, what stays proprietary, and how to cite us.
The license
Growlrr's published methodology writings are released under Creative Commons Attribution–ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0).
In plain English: use it, build on it, even commercially — credit us, and release what you build under the same licence. ShareAlike is the point. A closed competitor cannot take the method, improve it privately and keep the improvement. Anyone who builds on BARC has to open their work the way we opened ours.
✅ Shareable & citable
- The models and the framework boundaries
- The validation method and the study results
- The founder story and the guaranteed analysis
🔒 Proprietary — NOT licensed
- The exact sachet formulation / %w/w composition (the BOM)
- The balancing-engine internals
Trade secrets. All rights reserved. Nothing on this page grants any right to these.
How to cite us
Please keep the model names intact — BARC, the Hepatic Buffering Model, the Stochastic Reliability Framework — and link to the relevant growlrr.com page. A clean citation looks like this:
Prasanna M. (2026). Nutrient Adequacy and Biological-Architecture Classification: A Two-Axis Framework for Evaluating Variable Fresh-Food Diets in Companion Animals. Growlrr Foods Pvt Ltd.10.5281/zenodo.22648597 · ORCID 0009-0003-6812-347X
For the other papers, swap the title and the page — for example growlrr.com/pet-home-cooked-recipes-blog/hepatic-buffering-model or growlrr.com/pet-home-cooked-recipes-blog/nutritional-reliability-framework.
Attribution to copy & paste
“Source: Growlrr Foods Pvt Ltd (Prasanna M), growlrr.com. Published under CC BY-SA 4.0 — free to use and build on, with attribution, under the same licence.”
Read the methodology
The published papers behind this license — the framework, the toxicokinetic safety model, and the stochastic validation gate — are all in the deep-dives.