Private beta — now open
Everything known about your yacht, in one place you can ask.
Your manuals, serial numbers, service records and receipts, plus the hundred things only you and your crew know. Put them in by voice, photo, video or typing. Then ask questions about your boat and get answers out of your own material.
Free during beta · No credit card · One knowledge base per vessel, never shared
& specs
& receipts
notes
& video
logs
coming
The problem
The answer is already aboard. Finding it takes all afternoon.
Almost every question you'll ask about your boat has already been answered by somebody. It's in a manual, on an invoice, in a service record, or in the head of whoever happened to be standing there at the time.
None of it is lost, exactly. You just can't get at it when you need it.
It's scattered
There's a 400-page PDF on a laptop back at the house. A folder of invoices. A photo of a nameplate buried somewhere in your camera roll. None of it talks to anything else.
It's in people's heads
The startup sequence for the stabilizers. Which valve is actually the raw-water bypass. The vendor who got it right last time. Your captain knows all of it, and when he moves on he takes it with him.
It never gets written down
Writing it down means sitting at a desk with a form, hours after the job is finished. Nobody has ever reliably done that on a boat, and they're not going to start now.
What goes in
Put it in however it shows up.
Knowledge arrives in whatever form it happens to arrive in. A document, a snapshot, something somebody says, thirty seconds of video. Aquagent takes any of that and does the work of making it answerable. There's no form to fill in.
What comes out
Then ask it like you'd ask your engineer.
This isn't a search box. You ask in plain language, out loud or typed, and it's the same conversation either way.
Since everything went into one place, an answer can pull from sources that never used to talk to each other. The interval the manual calls for and the date you actually did the work come back together, in one reply.
- It only knows your boat. Every vessel gets its own walled-off knowledge base. Another owner's data never reaches yours.
- It shows its sources. Open the document and read the page for yourself.
- It tells you when it doesn't know. On a boat, a confident wrong answer will cost you more than no answer at all.
Questions that used to take an afternoon
You could answer every one of these from material you already have. It's just never been anywhere you could reach it.
Who it's for
Two jobs, one record.
An owner and a captain want different things out of the same information. Aquagent is built so that neither one has to do extra work for the other.
If you own her
- Stop keeping it all in your head. Look up the specs, the intervals and the history instead of trying to remember them.
- Check before you pay. When a yard quotes you for work, you can see whether it was already done last season, and what it cost then.
- Survive a crew change. When a captain or engineer moves on, what he knew about the boat stays with the boat.
- Protect the asset. A documented maintenance history is worth real money when you sell. More on that below.
If you run her
- Log it in twenty seconds. Talk the job into your phone while your hands are still dirty, instead of writing it up tonight and never getting to it.
- Get up to speed on a new boat in days. Everything the last crew knew is there to ask from your first morning aboard.
- Find the spec without the hunt. Part numbers, capacities, torque figures, service intervals. One question, straight out of the manual.
- Show your work. A complete, timestamped record of everything you did aboard, which is about the best professional reference a captain can hand over.
What it's worth
A documented boat sells for more than one with a shoebox of receipts.
Right now a buyer looking at a used yacht is working off a survey: one snapshot, taken on one day, by somebody who has known the boat for a few hours. Anything that happened before that morning is hearsay.
What a buyer gets without a record
- A one-day survey and a folder of whatever paperwork survived
- No way to tell what got put off, or how long ago
- All that uncertainty priced straight into their offer
What a buyer gets with one
- Every service, dated, with cost and who did it
- Every manual and serial number already in one place
- The quirks, on video, explained by the crew who ran her
- A record they can ask questions of themselves, before they bid
A boat that can answer a buyer's questions is a different proposition from one that can't. And you don't lose the knowledge base when you sell: it transfers with the vessel, which is the whole point of building it.
Coming to the beta
Your engines start keeping their own record.
A gateway on the boat's NMEA 2000 network reads what the engines are already broadcasting and logs it around the clock: oil pressure, fuel pressure, exhaust temperature and the other readings that tell you how an engine is really doing.
Give it a season and you have a baseline for your own engines. Not a number out of a manual, but what yours read when they were running well, at the RPM you actually cruise at. From there the thing to watch is drift. Exhaust temperature creeping up a few degrees over two months won't trip any alarm, because nothing is wrong yet.
Your engine alarms already handle emergencies. This is closer to annual bloodwork: it catches the slow stuff before it becomes the fast stuff.
What it makes answerable
The readings go into the same record as the work, so you can look at the numbers and the service history side by side.
What's in it
What you actually get.
Voice and text, one memory
Ask out loud, then follow up by typing. Same assistant, same conversation. Chat history is saved per vessel.
Vessel-specific assistant
Answers come from your manuals, logs, notes and tasks, with sources attached. Every boat is walled off from every other.
Photo & video capture
Open the phone camera from inside a task or log. Images are read and annotated; video is transcribed and described.
Document repository
Multi-file upload, a built-in PDF reader, video playback and an image viewer. You can always open the original.
Maintenance logs & tasks
Date, category, description, hours, cost and next service due, with photos and video attached to either one.
Research beyond the boat
When the answer isn't in your documents, the assistant can go look it up online, and it tells you which source it used.
Multiple vessels & crew
Mothership, tenders, and the one sitting at the other dock. Each gets its own record and its own invited crew.
Installs on your phone
Add it to your home screen and it behaves like a regular app. No App Store, no updates to chase.
Engine health Coming
NMEA 2000 telemetry, per-engine baselines and drift detection on the parameters that matter.
Private beta
Put it on a real boat.
We're opening Aquagent to a small group of owners and captains who'll put it to work on an actual boat, with their own manuals and their own backlog of jobs, and tell us where it comes up short.
- 1Free for the whole beta. No card, no trial clock.
- 2A direct line. You email, a person answers. No ticket queue.
- 3Real influence. Beta feedback is what's driving the roadmap right now.
What we ask in return: load up a season's worth of real documents, actually use it, and tell us honestly what's missing.
Questions
Straight answers.
What does it cost?
Nothing during the beta, and we don't ask for a card.
After that it's a subscription per vessel, priced by length overall — from $49 a month for boats 50 ft and under, rising with the size of the vessel. Paying annually gets you two months free. Crew are unlimited and free on every plan, and a paid vessel over 50 ft can add one tender of 36 ft or smaller at no charge.
Every plan includes a monthly allowance of voice conversation — three hours at the entry level, more on larger vessels. Beyond the allowance, voice is $0.25 a minute. You'll see hours used and any overage on your account page as you go, and we'll email you at 80% and again at 100%, so it's never a surprise at the end of the month. Everything else — documents, photos, video, questions you type — is unlimited.
Where does the assistant get its answers?
From your boat's own knowledge base: the manuals and documents you upload, your maintenance logs, your tasks, and your notes, including the ones you recorded by voice, photo or video. Each boat is walled off from every other, so one vessel's information never shows up in another's answers.
If something really isn't in your records, the assistant can go search the web instead. It tells you which one it used, so you're never guessing where an answer came from.
Is this just a chatbot with a boat logo?
No. A general chatbot can explain how marine diesels work in the abstract. Aquagent answers questions about your boat: what the manual on your shelf says, what you replaced in June, the serial number on the plate you photographed, the video your engineer shot of a start-up sequence. And it shows you where each piece of the answer came from.
Is there an inventory or spare-parts module?
No, and that's on purpose. Inventory grids only work if somebody keeps them current, and on a boat nobody ever does. So you record what's aboard whichever way is fastest at the time: a voice note, a photo of the shelf, a line of text. Then you ask for the list when you need it. Filters by part number, quarts of oil aboard, what you're running short of. The list gets built from your question instead of from a form you filled in months ago.
Can I really just photograph a receipt?
Yes. The image gets read, the details get pulled out, and it joins the boat's history right alongside the PDFs from the yard. Works the same for a nameplate, a wiring label, or a page of a manual you only have on paper.
Does it work offline?
Not yet. Aquagent needs a connection. Better you hear that here than find out thirty miles offshore.
Two things make it less of a problem than it sounds. Most of this work happens at the dock, on the hard, or within sight of a tower, which is also when you're most likely to be logging it. And the boats this is built for increasingly carry Starlink, which is the same connection that will carry automatic engine data.
If offline capture matters to how you'd use it, tell us when you request access. That's the kind of feedback that moves things up the list.
Is there an iPhone or Android app?
Aquagent runs in the browser and installs to your home screen like an app. Open app.aquagent.ai on your phone and add it. Nothing to download from the App Store or Play Store, and no updates to chase.
Can my captain and crew use it?
Yes, and they should. Most of the knowledge worth capturing is theirs in the first place. You invite crew per vessel, so the right people see the right boat.
What happens to all this if I sell the boat?
It goes with the boat. The knowledge base belongs to the vessel, and handing it over is a real part of what the buyer is paying for.
Transferring a vessel to its new owner carries a one-time administration fee of $199. You start the transfer, the buyer accepts, and the whole record — manuals, service history, notes, photos and video — moves to their account. Your access ends when it completes. Full self-service export is a priority before general release; during the beta, email us and we'll get you your records.
What kind of boats is this for?
Anything from a center console to a professionally crewed superyacht. The bigger and more complex the vessel, the more it earns its keep — a 50-meter boat has more systems, more manuals, more crew turnover and more money riding on getting the answer right. Crew are invited per vessel, so a boat running seven aboard works the same way as one running two.
Start the record now. You'll be glad of it later.
Every season you run without one is a season of knowledge you don't get back.
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