For Organisations · Done With You

Built around your operation.

Structured AI adoption for maritime leadership teams. Direction first. Then your decision on how to execute.

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Outcomes

What changes for your organisation

The work the leadership team has been deferring becomes the work the leadership team is executing.

An AI adoption plan your board has signed off on

A documented Roadmap your leadership team can execute against, with prioritised opportunities, defined timelines, and clear ownership for each initiative. The adoption conversation moves from speculation to scheduled work.

Governance you can defend to an auditor or insurer

An AI Use Policy specific to your operational reality, your data classification, your regulatory environment, and your multi-user access structure. Documentation that holds up when someone asks how AI is managed in your organisation.

Clarity on which AI investments matter and which do not

A Prioritised Opportunity Register that shows which initiatives address real friction in your operation and which would absorb budget without producing results. The register travels with the Blueprint and informs every decision the leadership team makes from there.

A leadership team aligned on direction

Leadership interviews across the organisation produce a single understood picture of where AI fits and where it does not. The strategic conversation becomes a shared one, with the executive team operating from the same Roadmap rather than competing instincts.

Operational capability built around how your organisation actually works

For organisations on the Console pathway, the working environment is configured around your functional structure, your priorities, and your governance posture. Modules are added by function as your capability grows.

A documented position your competitors do not have

Most maritime organisations are operating without an AI adoption plan, an AI Use Policy, or a defined governance structure. Your organisation moves into a documented, defensible, executable position. The Blueprint becomes a strategic asset for board reporting, client conversations, and insurance discussions.

Delivery

How the Blueprint engagement runs

A structured six to ten week engagement depending on organisational complexity, producing a decision-ready Adoption Roadmap your organisation can execute against.

01

Discovery and scoping

An initial conversation with the leadership team to understand your operational structure, your regulatory environment, and the strategic questions the Blueprint needs to answer. We agree on the scope, the participating leaders, the documents we will review, and the timeline for the engagement.

02

Leadership interviews

Structured conversations with your senior leaders across the organisation. We capture how each function operates, where the recurring friction lives, what AI experiments have been attempted, and what the leadership team is hoping AI will address. Each interview produces material that feeds directly into the Roadmap.

03

Risk, exposure, and governance review

A structured review of your data classification, your regulatory exposure, your platform tenancy, and the governance obligations your organisation carries. This review produces the foundation of your AI Use Policy and shapes the platform recommendations in the Roadmap.

04

Opportunity register and Roadmap structuring

The full register of AI opportunities surfaced during the engagement, prioritised against your operational reality and your governance posture. The register becomes the Adoption Roadmap, with sequenced initiatives, defined ownership, and clear deliverables across the next 3 to 6 months.

05

Final presentation and handover

A formal presentation of the Blueprint to your leadership team, with the AI Use Policy, the Prioritised Opportunity Register, and the Adoption Roadmap delivered as documented artefacts. From here, your organisation chooses how to execute, with the four pathways available depending on the scale and approach you want.

The process

How it works

Direction first. Choose your path.

01

Direction

Compass AI Blueprint

A structured AI Opportunity and Governance Audit producing a decision-ready 3 to 6 month adoption plan. Leadership interviews, risk and exposure review, AI Policy Framework, Prioritised Opportunity Register, and a formal Adoption Roadmap. Documented in a format defensible to a board, insurer, or auditor.

6 to 10 weeks · Fixed scope · Fixed fee · Documentation is yours to keep

02

Guidance

Compass AI Navigator

Ongoing strategic guidance for organisations executing the Blueprint Roadmap themselves. Monthly briefings, governance review, vendor and platform decision support, AI policy maintenance, and Roadmap progression review.

Monthly retainer · Annual contract · Pause at quarterly review

02

Infrastructure

Command AI Console

A done-with-you AI working environment built around your organisation, your context, your priorities, your operational structure. Multi-user. Functional channels. Organisational knowledge ingested. Governed from the first day of operation. Modules added by function as your capability grows.

Setup fee · Monthly licence per organisation · Modules per month · Includes Compass AI Navigator

02

Your Path

Take the Blueprint and execute your way

The Blueprint is yours to keep. Bring it to your internal team, your existing vendors, or your preferred platforms. No ongoing commitment required. Re-engage Southern Sky AI later if your direction changes.

No retainer · No lock-in · Documentation supports any execution path

Oversight and infrastructure

Governance and the client portal

What runs in the background as the work is delivered.

Governance applies across every pathway

The Blueprint produces an AI Use Policy for your organisation. It covers data classification by function, multi-user access structure, output governance, and the oversight responsibilities specific to your regulatory environment. The policy is yours to keep. Console clients see the policy operationalised inside their build, with Compass AI Navigator running alongside as the strategic guidance layer. Navigator-only clients maintain the policy with annual review. Organisations executing themselves take the policy into their own teams. Governance is not optional in any pathway. It is what separates responsible infrastructure from unmanaged experimentation.

Your client portal

Console and Navigator clients receive a portal for the organisation, not one per person. The portal contains your Blueprint documentation, AI Use Policy, briefing notes, and Roadmap progression. Console clients see active and available modules alongside billing. Navigator clients see strategic guidance, decision logs, and policy review history. Your leadership team can see what is in place and what is possible. Add Academy access for nominated team members at any time.

Who it serves

Organisation types we work with

Yacht Management Companies

Compliance tracking across fleet, contract and schedule management, owner reporting, crew management, and charter oversight at scale.

Yacht Programs

Individual yacht operations and the teams that run them, captains, heads of department, pursers, ship's administrators, and the estate or family office representatives overseeing the program. AI adoption configured around the way the vessel operates.

Marina Operators

Berth management, customer communications, maintenance scheduling, seasonal operations, environmental compliance, and digital systems management.

Passenger and Ferry Operations

Passenger safety and duty of care obligations, crew management, route operations, customer experience, regulatory compliance, and the governance of AI tools used across vessel and shore operations.

Refit and Shipyard Operations

Project estimation, technical documentation, procurement workflows, contractor management, and the governance of AI tools used across complex multi-party refit projects.

Maritime Professional Services

Surveyors, brokers, ship agents, port agents, maritime lawyers, and insurance professionals, organisations where document review volume, client reporting, and correspondence management are the primary friction points.

The build

A sample of what gets built in Console

For organisations on the Console pathway, modules are added by function or department. Each addresses a specific recurring friction for that organisation type. Navigator clients use the same opportunity register to guide their own implementation choices.

Fleet Compliance DashboardOwner Reporting SystemContract and Schedule ManagerISM Documentation SystemPort State Control Preparation AssistantBerth Management AssistantDocument Review SystemClient Reporting Assistant

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