Chief Watchkeeper
The operational assistant for the person running the yacht.
Chief Watchkeeper takes the repetitive administration out of running a yacht — watching what changed, carrying information between workflows and taking you to the task that needs doing. You stay in control; it does the legwork.
A briefing, not another dashboard.
The Daily Briefing reviews the live vessel picture and ranks the next things worth your attention. It is built from deterministic checks first; AI can help narrate the result, but it cannot invent a new issue.
Outstanding items can carry forward, urgent items can rise in priority, and every suggested action points to the workflow where the work is completed.
Chief Watchkeeper
Morning briefing
Three things are worth your attention before the day gets busy.
2 certificates in the action window
Review the records before the next crew change.
Hours of Rest signed through yesterday
No new rolling breach is waiting for review.
Guest trip starts tomorrow
Check watches and travel before embarkation.
Four useful jobs
Less searching. Less re-keying. Better handovers.
Chief Watchkeeper is not a generic chatbot. It is a practical layer over the vessel records and workflows your team already uses.
Daily Briefing
Start with a clear picture of what changed across the vessel. The rules-first briefing surfaces certificates, Hours of Rest, expenses, watches and other items that need attention.
Ask and go
Ask for a task in plain language and the assistant takes you to the relevant place, resolved for your role — whether that is your certificate record or the vessel compliance centre.
Read, then review
Passports, certificates, agreements, receipts and travel documents can be read into draft fields. You check the result before anything becomes a vessel record.
Context that matters
Briefing priorities reflect the vessel's operating rhythm: underway, alongside, at anchor, guests on board, payroll week and other operational states.
The difference is not another screen.
It is the number of times the same fact has to be found, copied, checked and chased before the vessel can move on.
Before
- The same crew detail in a spreadsheet, inbox and PDF
- A rotation change copied into several calendars
- Certificates chased when the expiry is already close
- The Captain finding out what changed after the fact
With Yacht Watchkeeper
- One vessel record that every workflow reads
- Leave, travel, watches and payroll moving together
- Compliance gaps visible in the action window
- A clear briefing of what needs attention next
Ask your DP-AI.
DPA thinking. AI speed.
DP-AI is a nod to the Designated Person Ashore role — not a replacement for it, and not a Dynamic Positioning tool. It is the conversational way to ask Chief Watchkeeper a direct question and get a direct answer, drawn from your vessel's actual records.
Chief Watchkeeper is the wider intelligence layer — alerts, briefings, anomaly detection and suggested actions. DP-AI is how you talk to it.
Questions people actually ask
- “What needs my attention today?”
- “Who has certificates expiring next month?”
- “When is our next class survey window?”
- “Are yesterday's Hours of Rest complete?”
The assistant helps. The accountable person decides.
Chief Watchkeeper can surface a risk, draft a route or extract fields from a document. Sign-off, publishing, approvals and operational judgement remain with the people responsible for them.
Give the administration back to the operation.
Start with your vessel's records and see what Chief Watchkeeper can take off the Captain's, Purser's and HOD's desk.