Maritime Intelligence

The operating system
for commercial fleets.

Binnacle unifies bridge intelligence, crew compliance, voyage planning, and regulatory monitoring in one platform — built for operators running 2 to 200 vessels.

Demo loads a real Pacific tug + barge company. Click anything. Nothing breaks. · Contact BinnacleAI for a demo & pricing · Hawaiʻi-based

Built right

USCG-aware

Not affiliated. Real CFR cites.

OFAC SDN screening

Live on every crew/vessel create

49 CFR Part 40

Drug testing service-agent compliant

CCPA · GDPR · 8-state ready

DSAR portal · 30-day response SLA

MFA · TLS · Encrypted at rest

Sentry PII scrubber · Daily backups

Cyber 2025 ready

46 CFR 101 Subpart F · July 16

Live Fleet Intelligence

Every vessel.
Exactly where they are.

Live position, heading, speed, and crew status for every vessel in your fleet — credential expiration, watch schedules, and collision-risk awareness overlaid in real time, with every event written to a class-society-ready audit log. Works for transponder-equipped vessels; smaller boats can broadcast from an iPad mounted at the helm.

Live

Position updates

Class A + B

AIS supported

iPad-as-AIS

for boats without transponders

Global

Coverage

CompliantWarningExpired
PACIFIC SPIRITMAUI PRIDEHOKU MARUKONA MARINERDIAMOND HEADALOHA EXPLORERLEHUAKOHALA WIND5nm10nm15nm20nmNNEESESSWWNWSPIRIT8.1kts · HDG 182°COMPLIANTMARU12.3kts · HDG 045°EXP 42dEXPLORER6.8kts · HDG 010°MMC EXPIRED

The old way

Spreadsheets for crew. A separate app for voyages. PDFs for manifests. A binder of regulations the captain hopes is current.

The Binnacle way

One system. Crew credentials verified with USCG. Voyages planned and tracked. Manifests digital. Regulations monitored in real time.

Under the hood

Real depth, no marketing inflation.

Every number below is verifiable in the source repo. Grep it yourself — it's how we'd want to verify a SaaS partner before signing.

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Schema migrations shipped

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AI workflows powered by Claude

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Credential types tracked

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USCG subchapters covered

The product

Built like a native app.
Runs in your browser.

Two dozen modules covering the full operator workload — crew, compliance, voyages, MARPOL, ballast, bilge, surveys, parts, POs, and more. Every screen below is real, shipping today.

  • Crew

    Credentials + STCW + payroll

  • Vessels

    AIS + COI + drydock

  • Voyages

    Manifest + weather + P&L

  • Compliance

    46 CFR live cite

  • Drills

    Sub T + STCW logs

  • Maintenance

    PMS + work orders

  • LSA / FFE

    COI inventory + monthly inspection

  • Spare Parts

    Atomic ledger, low-stock alerts

  • Engine Log

    Watch readings + CSV export

  • Class Surveys

    5-yr Special Periodical planner

  • MARPOL

    Oil ORB · Garbage · Sewage · Bilge

  • Ballast Water

    BWMP + per-event w/ GPS

  • Vendors

    Directory + contact

  • Purchase Orders

    Auto PO# + partial receive

  • Cyber 2025

    Subpart F ready

  • Insurance

    Vault + claims + COI

Feature 01

Compliance, without the clipboard.

One score. One view. The status of every crew member, every credential, every vessel.

Feature 02

Plan voyages in minutes.

Route, fuel budget, crew assignments, manifest. Everything a voyage needs in one form.

Feature 03

Credentials parsed by AI.

Drag in a PDF. Claude Vision reads the document and fills every field — number, issuer, expiration.

Feature 04

Regulations watched for you.

We ingest the Federal Register daily. When USCG touches a rule that affects your fleet, you get a note.

Fleet operations

94%

Crew

24

Vessels

6

Voyage scheduled

HNL → KOA · Pacific Spirit

Dep 06:00

Mike Santos

MMC

12d overdue

Lisa Chen

TWIC

23d

James Kona

STCW

45d

Built for operators

Two dozen modules.
One login.

From crew credentials to bilge logs, drills to MARPOL, work-rest to spare parts. The entire operator workload, one platform — and we ship a new module every week.

Credential Intelligence

Every license, cert, and endorsement tracked automatically.

MMC, STCW, TWIC, medicals, drug tests. We know the renewal cycles and alert you before anything lapses.

Merchant Mariner Credential45d
STCW Basic TrainingValid
Medical CertificateExpired

Fleet Compliance

CFR 46 matched. COI requirements auto-validated.

Pacific Spirit
Island Runner
Kai Lani
Trade Wind

Voyage Planning

Route, fuel, and revenue tracked per voyage.

HNLKOA
168 nmOn budget

Manifests

Digital passenger and cargo, every voyage.

Crew Scheduling

12-hour rule enforcement built in.

Weather Routing

NOAA marine forecasts, per route.

Analytics

Utilization and compliance trends.

AI Document Parsing

Upload any credential, we extract it.

Regulatory Monitoring

Federal Register alerts as they publish.

LSA / FFE Equipment

COI-ready inventory + monthly inspections (46 CFR 199 + 25.30).

MARPOL Records

Oil ORB · Garbage · Sewage · Bilge in one log.

Spare Parts & Inventory

Atomic ledger, low-stock alerts, fleet-wide or per-vessel.

Vendors + Purchase Orders

Auto PO numbering, partial-receive flow, vendor directory.

Planned Maintenance · OEM Auto-Pilot

The schedule writes itself.
You just turn the wrench.

Most fleets still type maintenance schedules into spreadsheets — then forget to update them when the engine's actual hours roll. Binnacle ships an OEM library with every interval pre-loaded, watches your engine readings for drift, and lets you import any other manual with a PDF upload.

Pick your engine. Schedule materializes.

Type Cat 3508B and 11 maintenance tasks anchor to your engine's running hours. Cat 3406B, 3512C, Cummins KTA19-M, KTA38-M, Northern Lights M673L2 in v1 — every task carries a citation back to the OEM manual.

Class-society overlays, opt-in.

Layer ABS Subchapter M, AWO RCP, or USCG COI maintenance items on top of the OEM schedule. 14 audit-ready inspection tasks per pack, mapped to 46 CFR §138/140/142 + ABS Steel Vessel Rules.

Drift detection from your readings.

Oil pressure trending down 12% over the last 30 hours? We catch it from your routine MechanicalLog readings and recommend pulling the oil sample 200 hours earlier than the calendar interval.

Any other manual: just upload the PDF.

Yanmar 6CHE3? MAN D2876? Wärtsilä 4-stroke? Upload the maintenance-intervals chapter and Claude extracts the table — task names, intervals, citations — into the platform-wide library. Review, save, link.

In the demo right now

424 maintenance tasks across 24 engines + gensets — every one citation-backed.

232 OEM tasks + 192 ABS/USCG overlay tasks + 3 live drift advisories on the Trans-Pacific Towing demo fleet.

See it live

46 CFR 101 Subpart F

The USCG’s 2025 cybersecurity rule hits July 16.

Binnacle tracks your Cybersecurity Plan, CySO, annual assessment, NRC incident reporting, and training compliance — audit-ready in one place.

Named CySO6-element plan48-hr NRC reportingTraining recordsAnnual assessmentAsset inventory

Compare

Why operators are switching from spreadsheets and enterprise tools

Binnacle is purpose-built for US commercial fleet operators — from 2 vessels to 200. Same compliance breadth as the enterprise tools, no enterprise sales gauntlet.

FeatureSpreadsheetEnterprise SaaSBinnacle AI

Crew + credential tracking

Drug & alcohol (49 CFR Part 40)

Sub M 12-hr rule branched correctly

Most apply STCW universally

USCG 2025 cyber rule (46 CFR 101 Subpart F)

Photo OCR for credentials

iCal subscription to deadlines

Spanish + Tagalog crew UI

OFAC SDN screening

Free public compliance calculator

Setup time

Weeks vs 6-12 weeks vs 15 min

Voyage P&L per voyage

Direct line to pricing & demo

Spreadsheets have no vendor · enterprise tools hide behind sales · Binnacle: contact us, real human answers

Full supportPartial / manualNot supported

Comparison reflects publicly-available info as of 2026-04. We don't name specific competitors here because feature coverage changes; verify with any vendor before signing.

Every fleet, one platform

Built for every fleet.
From 2 vessels to 200.

Small charter / expedition

2–5 vessels

Get out of the spreadsheet.

Simple crew rosters, voyage logs, and credentials — tracked without the admin overhead that used to eat your Sundays.

Crew roster with credential tracking
Single-form voyage logs
Passenger manifests
USCG inspection reports

Regional operators

10–30 vessels

Built for the Young Brothers of the world.

Mixed fleets with different subchapters, inter-island schedules, and dozens of crew rotating through vessels. One system for all of it.

Multi-vessel compliance matrix
Crew scheduling across fleet
Route performance analytics
Real-time voyage tracking

Energy and specialty fleets

30+ vessels

For ConocoPhillips Polar Fleet scale.

OSVs, tankers, and ice-class vessels with complex COI requirements and zero tolerance for a missed credential. Operate at the edge with full coverage.

CFR 46 engine with custom rules
Crew optimizer against COI
Federal Register monitoring
Audit-ready reporting

AI assistance

The intelligence layer.
Always on, always current.

IEC 62388 ARPA Bridge Radar

Target trails, guard zones, RM-T / RM-R toggle, auto-acquisition. Bridge-grade radar built to the spec — not a fleet-tracker dressed up.

Voice Bridge Interface

The bridge talks to the system instead of typing through it. Log events, query crew status, draft notices — hands stay on the wheel.

Port-Captain Prompts

Draft transit plans, pre-arrival notices, and port-call paperwork from a single prompt. Reviewed by a human, signed off by you.

Claude Vision Document Classification

Upload any credential. We extract every field — number, issue date, expiration, issuing authority — and route it to the right mariner.

CFR 46 Regulatory Engine

We model the regulations. Tell us your vessel type, route, and gross tonnage — and get the exact crew and credentials you need to operate.

Federal Register Monitoring

The moment a USCG rule changes that affects your fleet, you'll know. No newsletters. No missed bulletins. No surprises.

Pricing

Built for your fleet. Priced for your fleet.

Every operation is different. Contact BinnacleAI to get a demo and pricing tailored to your vessels, crew, and compliance scope.

Solo / Small fleet

1-3 vessels. All modules. Unlimited users in your org.

Contact for pricing

  • Unlimited crew, voyages, manifests
  • All compliance modules (cyber, drugs, drills, work/rest)
  • Drydock + insurance vault
  • Mobile /boat for crew at sea
  • Compliance calendar + iCal
  • Email + chat support
Contact for demo & pricing

Most popular

Multi-vessel

4-15 vessels. Everything in Solo, plus advanced ops.

Contact for pricing

  • Everything in Solo
  • Voyage P&L per voyage
  • Charter customer CRM + quotes
  • Bunker / fuel optimization
  • Port-call workflow + eNOAD
  • Priority support
Contact for demo & pricing

Enterprise

16+ vessels. SSO, SLA, custom DPA, white-label optional.

Contact for pricing

  • Everything in Multi-vessel
  • Google / Azure AD / Okta SSO
  • Custom SLA + DPA
  • Dedicated account manager
  • API access for integrations
  • Optional white-label
Contact for demo & pricing

Want to kick the tires first? Try the free 46 CFR compliance calculator — no login, 2 minutes.

Questions

Honest answers to the questions operators ask

No. Binnacle is a recordkeeping and compliance-assistance tool — not a certifier of compliance, not a Coast Guard agency, not legal advice. References to 46 CFR, USCG forms, and NVICs are for informational purposes. Verify all regulatory requirements with your local USCG Sector or qualified maritime counsel before filing.

Daily database backups, customer data export via API any time, and open data formats. You own your records, not us. Documented data-portability and deletion (CCPA/GDPR) workflows. We're not betting your fleet on us — we're betting Binnacle on you.

Binnacle covers operators running 2 to 200 vessels who want enterprise-grade compliance breadth without enterprise sales calls or implementation consultants. We tier from a Charter plan for small operators up to a custom Enterprise tier for 16+ vessels. Contact BinnacleAI for a demo and pricing tailored to your fleet.

We capture time and produce a Gusto-format CSV export. We don't run payroll, calculate withholding, or file 1099/W-2s. Pair Binnacle with Gusto, QuickBooks Payroll, or your existing service for the actual run.

TLS 1.2+ in transit, encrypted at rest, MFA required on admin accounts, OFAC SDN screening on every crew creation, Sentry PII scrubber, daily backups with quarterly tested restore, signed Information Security Policy. We're getting cyber insurance bound and SOC 2 Type 1 underway.

The mobile /boat mode is offline-capable for the most-used flows: drills, log entries, credentials, work-rest. Sync resumes when connected. We don't claim total offline parity — voice recording over cellular still needs a data connection — but the daily essentials work at sea.

Today: AIS (basic), Anthropic Claude (AI assistant + photo OCR), Resend (email), Stripe (billing), USCG NMC public lookup (live MMC verification with 24h cache and graceful fallback). Coming this quarter: QuickBooks/Xero, DocuSign, NVIC auto-subscription.

About 15 minutes. Try the free /compliance-calculator first — no login, generates a 46 CFR checklist for your vessel in 2 minutes. If it's useful, we'll pair on a 15-minute discovery call. No multi-week implementation.

Question we didn't cover? hello@binnacleai.com — we answer our own email.

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USCG credential tracker for licensed mariners. MMC expiration countdown, sea-service log with AI parsing, and a complete 46 CFR REC packet builder — all in one place.

  • MMC countdown: color-coded days remaining to renewal
  • Upload sea-service letters — AI extracts vessel, tonnage & days
  • Auto-generate your USCG 46 CFR submission packet
  • Free tier + Pro for active captains at $19/mo
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