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An AI crew for your boat.

Ask your boat anything. It’s read every manual and watched every system, sailed every mile.

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Shimbiri is marine intelligence software for recreational and commercial boats: an AI crew that remembers your vessel, built on Shimbiri Evolution™, the adaptive layer proven at sea on Shimbiri.

The four jobs it does, and why they belong together →

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Shimbiri
Connecting…
finding the boat…
One system, the whole passage

It sails the whole passage with you.

01
Plan

Ask for a passage like you’d ask a navigator: a real, weather-aware route on your chart, edited with a finger.

02
Go

Wind, tide and layline stay in front of you, no menus to dig through: the same live picture the AI works from.

03
Watch

Depth, wind, battery and engine, watched continuously: the boat keeps an eye on itself so you don’t have to.

04
Adapt

It watches every new forecast and tells you when to change course or wait, so the plan stays alive for the whole trip.

The part no one else does. It advises and shows why; you decide.
Why Shimbiri

Shimbiri replaces 17 apps.

They don’t sit side by side. They work together. Your instruments, charts, forecasts, manuals, crew and logbook feed one live record of your boat, and the AI draws on it every time it answers.

  • PredictWind: Passage Planning
  • Windy.com: Passage Planning
  • Navionics: Charts, the whole Australian coast today, worldwide coming soon
  • WillyWeather: Tide & Light
  • Anchor Pro: Anchor Alarm
  • Victron VRM: Telemetry
  • MarineTraffic: AIS
  • Garmin inReach: Live tracking
  • ChatGPT: The Captain, who knows your boat
  • Starlink app: Comms & Networks
  • PredictWind DataHub: Bandwidth manager (coming)
  • Peplink: Smart router and firewall (coming)
  • NordVPN: Built-in VPN (coming)
  • FirstMate: The Purser, answers from your own manuals
  • IDEA Yacht: Crew & Certs
  • Vessel Vanguard: The Bosun: maintenance, stores and compliance
  • DECKEE: Logbook

“Punching a coastal passage into ChatGPT looks clever if you don’t know the technology, and amateurish if you do. The answer comes back brilliant, but it doesn’t know you, your boat, or today’s, tomorrow’s and next week’s conditions, and it can’t. Shimbiri is what gives the AI that picture. Then it’s genuinely useful on the water.”

Ben Shipley · Founder
Proven at sea

The same crew won PHS Division 1 in the 80th Sydney–Hobart.

Built and proven on this boat, in real conditions; the Officer that briefed those watches is the same one you run on your own boat.

Shimbiri under spinnaker, SHIMBIRI.AI kite flying, on her way to winning PHS Division 1 in the 80th Sydney–Hobart
The Purser
A flood aboard
→ photographed it, asked how to fix it, got walked through it
The Chief Engineer
A hidden CAN-bus fault
→ found in the autopilot data, saved thousands
The Officer
Racing up the Derwent
→ the call to tack, and the data to convince the crew
How it works

Free software. Metered AI. No subscriptions.

The apps are free with your account; the AI is metered, by the query. Hardware and hands-on services are quoted to your boat. See how you pay, in full →

Who it’s for

Cruiser, racer, commercial or fleet

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The Apps

The catalogue: what’s free, what the AI adds

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Answers

Real questions, answered with the working shown

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Create

Build for the boat and share it

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Shimbiri anchored alone off a turquoise reef-fringed shore

More time out here. That’s the whole idea.

Your whole passage. One system.

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Built by sailors who code. Proven on Shimbiri. Improved every week.