Search the documents
Answers from the ship's own documents, with the source.
MAI · Marine Automated Insight
Every answer is already on board.
MAI finds it.
MAI is the onboard knowledge system from Farwake Maritime, built by a maritime engineer who has stood the watches it serves. It turns a vessel's own manuals, drawings and maintenance history into sourced answers in seconds, and leaves every decision with the crew.
Runs aboard · Documents stay aboard · Every answer sourced
The problem
The answer is on board.
Finding it takes too long.
01
Scattered
Manuals, drawings, procedures and maintenance history, each in its own folder or system.
02
Forgotten
How a fault was fixed last time goes home with the crew at crew change.
03
Copied by hand
Permits, JSAs and handovers are written out again for every job.
How it works
A fault nobody aboard remembers.
MAI does.
- AskIn plain words, from any PC or tablet aboard.
- MAI digsMaintenance history, spare parts, manuals, journals.
- Answer with the sourceThe record it came from, one click away.
- The crew decideMAI supports. It never approves work.
MAI3rd Engineer · joined last week
Exhaust temperature on main engine unit 3 is running high. Have we seen this before?
Searching MV MAI
- Maintenance history · main engine
- Spare parts · main engine
- Main engine manual
- ER journal
Yes, once. On 11 May 2026 the unit 3 fuel injector was changed, tested at 320 bar before fitting, and the exhaust temperature came back in line. J1 3 spare injectors are in the engine store. P1
J1 Job history · main engine · 11 May 2026Open record
Was this useful? Yes No
Support only. The crew keep the final responsibility.
Example from our demonstration vessel, MV MAI. Its records are invented.
What MAI does
Questions, history, drawings and paperwork.
Maintenance history
What was done before, and which spares are aboard.
Permits, JSA and LOTOTO
Drafted on the vessel's own forms. Always a draft.
Find a drawing
By name or number, opened at the right page.
Handover and journals
Written as you go, searchable later.
Record books
Oil and ballast entries laid out, ready to copy.
Use cases
Pick a moment. Watch MAI work.
Chief Engineer · Engine control room
Air compressor no. 1 is slow to fill the receiver. What was done to it last time?
- Maintenance history
- Spare parts
- Maker's manual
30 May 2026, 1000-hour service: second-stage valve plate worn and renewed. One spare valve set in store 2. J1 P1
Second Engineer · Engine room
Weld a bracket in the engine room tonight. Draft the paperwork.
- Hot work procedure
- The vessel's own permit form
- Risk assessment library
Hot work permit and JSA drafted. Every sheet says DRAFT; signatures stay empty.
Third Engineer · leaving tomorrow
Write my handover.
- Your notes from this trip
- Jobs done on your equipment
- Open items
Handover document ready for your relief, in the ship's format.
Second Engineer · in port
Sludge landed ashore, 3.2 m³. What do I write?
- The right code
- The ship's tank list
- Your figures, checked
The entry, laid out and ready to copy into the book. The officer signs it.
Deck officer · Bridge
What is the brake setting of the forward mooring winch?
- Manuals
- Maintenance history
- Equipment register
Not in this vessel's documents. MAI says so, instead of guessing.
Examples from our demonstration vessel, MV MAI. Its records are invented.
Safety & data
Built for a ship, not a chatbot.
- Its own computer aboard. Documents stay on the ship.
- Every answer sourced. One click to check it.
- Says when it does not know. No guessing.
- Never approves work. Drafts only.
- Only counts go ashore. No questions, documents or names.
What goes aboard
MAI computerinstalled aboardBridge PC
ECR PC
Tablet
Office ashore · counts only, when there is a connection
MAI runs on a dedicated computer installed aboard and connected to the ship's network. The crew use it in the browser of any ship PC or tablet. Nothing to install on them.
For the office
See the fleet from ashore.
Which vessels run MAI, how much it is used and where documents are missing. Other measures can be added for your fleet.
Time savedmodelled, assumptions shown
Permits draftedper vessel, per month
Questions answeredand the ones no document answered
Vessel healthwhich ships need attention
How to start
One vessel. Your documents.
Measures agreed first.
- Demo20 minutes on our demonstration vessel.
- Agree the measuresTime saved, permits drafted, questions answered, or what your office needs.
- Install aboardA MAI computer on one ship, on its network, loaded with its documents and forms.
- DecideReview the measures, then decide on the fleet.
About
Farwake Maritime is a maritime technology company founded by Jeanpaul van Oosterhoud, a maritime engineer from offshore and vessel operations. We build software for the people who run ships, the way we would want it on our own watch: aboard, sourced, and never in charge. MAI is the first.
10,935 m below sea level
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Jeanpaul van Oosterhoud
+31 6 4862 0218
info@farwakemaritime.com