Why us

Built from inside the industry - not a software shop.

SMS Workboat was built by its founders between jobs at sea. The compliance headaches it fixes are ones we live with - not ones a product manager guessed at.

The law changed: the Workboat Code Edition 3 now requires a Safety Management System on every small commercial workboat. Most owners are one or two boats, run from a phone at a berth - not a compliance department. So the whole thing is built for that person: from nothing to a working SMS in an afternoon, the depth kept under the hood.

And it’s built to be trusted. Its AI, Nova, retrieves and cites the Code - it never rules a verdict, because that’s the surveyor’s call. There’s no demo to book and no hidden pricing - the whole product is here to see.

UKRI - Innovate UK

Government backed

Smart Maintenance Systems is supported by Innovate UK - the UK government’s innovation agency.

NVIDIA Inception Program

AI recognised

Our AI vision is part of NVIDIA’s Inception program for AI startups.

Built at sea

By people who work on the water - not from an office

Honest by design

Shows what you’ve recorded, never a fake compliance score

AI you can trust

Cited answers, never a verdict

“Nova handles the compliance, you handle the boat.”