VDB IS

01Maritime

Reclaiming 900 office hours a year from voyage documentation

A ship manager operating 14 vessels

900

Hours returned per year

63%

Faster document turnaround

11 weeks

Assessment to production

The challenge

Operators were spending mornings reading port paperwork, statements of fact and class correspondence before any operational decision was made. Capacity, not demand, was the constraint on taking more vessels under management.

How we worked

  • Four-week readiness assessment across chartering, operations and technical
  • One use-case selected: first-pass document triage with citation back to source
  • Pilot run in parallel with the manual process for six weeks, then the manual step retired
  • All code, prompts, models and data delivered into the client's own cloud tenancy

We had been told to expect a transformation. What we got was one process that works properly, owned by us, and the confidence to pick the next one ourselves.

Managing Director

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