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.

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

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.”