Document assistant for yachts and their crews
Your yacht’s knowledge. Your data. Your sovereignty. Verify every answer.
Chat2boat indexes manufacturer manuals, procedures, certificates, drawings and scans from on board, then answers by citing the exact passage and the source file. Your documents and their index stay in your instance.
Generator no. 1 needs an oil and filter change every 500 running hours, or once a year1.
Answer based on 1 sourceSource: Manuel_Groupe_Electrogene_GE1.pdf · Passage 410:39“Replace engine oil and oil filter every 500 running hours or once a year, whichever comes first.”
Open originalView passageWhy Chat2boat, why now?
The yacht’s private AI
Superyachts are increasingly digital environments. Owners, guests and crew interact with AV, IT, automation, media, information and service systems every day. Yet the knowledge behind these systems is fragmented across manuals, procedures, service records, inventories and applications.
Chat2boat turns that information into a natural conversation — with privacy, and a user experience designed around the vessel.
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Built for the yacht
Grounded in your vessel’s own documents: manuals, procedures and checklists, service records, inventories, guest information. Not the open internet.
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Every answer is sourced
Each answer shows the exact passage and the source file, and opens the original in one click. You check before you act.
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Sovereign AI
Files, metadata and the vector index stay in your Chat2boat instance. Pick a model served by Infomaniak, a Swiss host, request by request. API keys never reach the browser.
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Dedicated onboard server
Chat2boat is designed to run on a dedicated server installed on board, at the heart of the yacht’s digital ecosystem.
One assistant, several experiences: owner, guests, captain and officers, crew.
Knowledge on board is not straight forward or a headache
The answer is already on board.
In a manufacturer manual, a procedures binder or an email from the yard. Nobody knows which one.
Scans escape search.
A scanned certificate, a photo of a rating plate or of a yard invoice stays invisible to a search engine.
A general-purpose AI makes things up.
With no access to your yacht’s documents, it produces an answer that is plausible, well written and wrong.
Three steps
Upload
Manuals and technical documentation, procedures and checklists, maintenance records, inventories, menus and wine lists, guest welcome book, AV/IT documentation. Scans go through OCR. Organise by project.
Ask
Ask in plain language, or run a quick action: Chat to search and Find, Summarise, Translate, Compare, Explain.
Verify
Every answer shows its sources: the quoted passage, the file name, and a link to open the original.
One question, one sourced answer, for every role
From the captain to the guests, everyone asks in their own words. The answer comes from the yacht’s documents, with the source to check it.
The departure checklist has four blocks: crew and weather briefing, engine and steering tests, life-saving equipment check, then the yacht’s documents. Steering tests are done no later than one hour before departure.1
Answer based on 1 sourceChecklist_Appareillage.pdf · Page 2 · Section AAn answer without a source is not an answer
The source panel accompanies every answer. It shows the passage it relies on, the document it came from, and opens the original in one click. A manufacturer manual in a language you don’t read is translated in place, passage by passage. Every answer can be copied, exported as Markdown or plain text, regenerated, and rated.
The stabilisers’ hydraulic oil is changed every 2,000 running hours, and at the latest every two years1.
Answer based on 1 sourceSource: Wartungshandbuch_Stabilisatoren.pdf · Passage 2Quoted passage · German original
„Das Hydrauliköl der Stabilisatoranlage ist alle 2.000 Betriebsstunden, spätestens jedoch alle zwei Jahre, zu wechseln.“
- 01The quoted passageThe exact passage the answer relies on, highlighted in context.
- 02The source fileThe document’s name and where the passage sits in it.
- 03The original, in one clickOpen the source file to read beyond the passage. Translate the passage in place.
- 04Answer actionsCopy, export as Markdown or TXT, regenerate, rate with a thumb up or down.
What Chat2boat can read
Documents
- PDF
.pdf - Word
.docx - Plain text
.txt
Spreadsheets
- Excel
.xlsx - Excel (legacy)
.xls - CSV
.csv
Apple
- Pages
.pages - Numbers
.numbers - Keynote
.key
Images (OCR)
- PNG
.png - JPEG
.jpg - Text recognition
OCR
Apple documents are converted before indexing. Images and scanned PDFs (certificates, rating plates, invoices) go through OCR.
The yacht’s guest book, on self-service
Publish a chatbot on your site or your guests’ welcome page, powered by the document project you choose: welcome book, yacht presentation, charter terms. It answers only from those documents. You set which domains may embed it, the title, the welcome message, the quick actions offered to visitors, the colours, the logo, and the caps on messages, tokens and budget. A public key is all it takes to install; no secret key ever reaches the page.
- Public keyThe only key present in the pagepk_chat2boat_7f3a…
- Allowed domainsSites that may embed the widgetinvites.exemple.eu
- Source projectThe widget answers only from these documentsGuest welcome book
- Title, welcome, quick actionsWhat visitors see when it opensSummarise · Explain
- Colours and logoIn the yacht’s colours
- CapsMessages, tokens and budget
White label. The application’s logo, palette and contacts can be customised too: in the colours of the yacht or its management company.
Where your documents go
Client side
Browser and widget
- Crew interface
- Widget with public key
- No API key
Your instance
Chat2boat installation
- The yacht’s files
- Metadata
- Vector index
- Model calls
Request by request
Chosen model
- Infomaniak · Swiss host
- OpenAI
- Anthropic
They stay in your instance.
Files, metadata and the vector index live in the Chat2boat installation. No third-party indexing service touches them.
A European model is available.
Pick a model served by Infomaniak, a Swiss host, rather than a US provider. The choice is made request by request.
Keys never go through the browser.
Model calls leave from the server. No API key is exposed to the client.
You pay for what you use
No subscription, no per-seat licence. A prepaid wallet is debited in proportion to the tokens actually consumed, at the rate of the model you chose. Every charge is itemised, every payment produces a receipt. Let’s talk about your volume.
- 01Prepaid wallet
- 02Debited in proportion to tokens actually consumed
- 03At the rate of the model you chose
- 04Every charge itemised
- 05A receipt for every payment
Let’s see it on your yacht’s documents
A thirty-minute demo, on your own files. We show indexing, sourced answers and the widget.