16 jobs. One crew.
Shimbiri replaces 16 apps with eight crew members who know about each other. Each does its jobs, and they share one live record of your boat.
A manual reader that cannot see your engine data will tell you what the book says, not what your engine is doing. A maintenance tracker that cannot see the weather cannot tell you the service is due before a four-day passage. Separate tools cannot answer the questions that sit between them.
The Captain
Ask anythingAnswers from your boat’s own instruments, manuals and logs
- Live trackinginstead of Garmin inReach
- Ask anythinginstead of ChatGPT
The Weather Officer
Weather & passagesMarine forecasts compared model by model, and anchor watch
- Weather modelsinstead of Windy.com
- Anchor Alarminstead of Anchor Pro
The Cruise Officer
The passage, start to finishPassage plans on your own polars, departure times and tide gates
- Passage Planninginstead of PredictWind
The Chief Engineer
Systems & powerRemote monitoring and alerts for every system aboard
- Telemetryinstead of Victron VRM
- Comms & Networksinstead of Starlink app
- Bandwidth managerinstead of PredictWind DataHub
- Built-in VPNinstead of NordVPN
The Bosun
Maintenance & storesBoat maintenance, spares and compliance, organised
- Maintenanceinstead of Vessel Vanguard
The Purser
Manuals & documentsA search engine for your boat, answered from your own manuals
- Manualsinstead of FirstMate
Signals
Crew & commsCrew, certificates, conversations and the calendar, with the boat in the chat
- Crew & Certsinstead of IDEA Yacht
- Logbookinstead of DECKEE
You ask once. The Captain asks the rest.
Behind one prompt, the Captain puts the question to whichever crew member holds the answer, and to more than one when the answer needs them. Should we leave on Thursday is a weather question, an engine-hours question, a stores question and a crew-certificate question at the same time. Separate apps give you separate answers and leave the joining up to you, at the chart table, at ten at night.
That’s the case for one system. The parts can see each other.
Three things worth saying.
The engine, tank, electrical, depth, wind, generator and speed data needs hardware. Watching your engine and systems means the Chief Engineer pack on the boat. Everything else runs on the software alone.
Acoustic and vibration sensing on the motors is part of the Chief Engineer pack.
None of it replaces your judgement. Every answer cites where it came from so you can check it. A system that asks to be trusted without showing its working has not earned the helm.
A boat carries several hundred documents.
The question is which one explains this alarm, and whether the reading in front of you is normal. Shimbiri answers from the boat, not from a single file.
Those documents include the engine, genset, watermaker, autopilot, chartplotter, windlass, fridge, heads, the two different inverters and the one that came with the boat and was never replaced. The question is rarely “what does page 84 say”. It is which document explains this alarm. That is the part you cannot do by attaching a file.
And a manual on its own cannot tell you whether the reading in front of you is normal. The answer changes when the system knows your engine hours, what your voltage has been doing all week, the sea state you are about to sail into and when that impeller was last replaced. A chatbot with a PDF knows the book. It does not know the boat.
Built for the boat one person still has to run.
Below a certain size the market offers phone apps. Above it, superyacht management platforms that start in the tens of thousands a year and assume a professional crew to operate them. In between sits the boat that is complex and still run by the people who own it, and that is the boat this was built for.
Today the system runs on boats from 33 to 82 feet: a Sun Fast racer, a Dufour cruiser, a Fountaine Pajot catamaran, a Hanse 575, a Seawind catamaran, a Maritimo motor yacht and a McConaghy 82. Sail and power, cruising, racing and commercial.