Approach

The problems that keep coming back.

Across maritime operations and process-heavy businesses, the same three shapes turn up again and again. These are the patterns I build against, and how I work through each one.

Pattern 01

Fragmented reporting

Route, performance and operational figures live in separate inputs and never arrive as one usable view, so every status check is a manual reassembly job.

Pattern 02

Manual bottlenecks

The problem is rarely a lack of data. It is the repeated handling between intake, interpretation and follow-up, done by a person who could be doing something else.

Pattern 03

An idea that isn't tangible yet

The concept is real, but there is nothing anyone can touch, so stakeholders cannot engage with it confidently and the decision keeps getting deferred.

Built and running

From pattern to product.

Case

MarOps — shipowner back office

All three patterns, solved in one live system: certificate alerts, evidence-grade GENCON laytime, noon-report reconciliation and voyage P&L for small dry-bulk owners. 187 automated tests, in production.

Case

Passage Plan — bridge decision support

Pattern 01 on the bridge: one GPX route assembled into a single passage-plan draft with VTS areas, reporting points, live NAVTEX, weather, depth and UKC, MARPOL ECA changeovers and a master-approved A.893(21) checklist. A personal tool a chief-mate candidate wrote for his own watches; advisory, not a replacement for the ENC.

Your case

Recognise one of these?

Describe your version of it and I'll tell you what I would do first.

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