Forward-deployed AI for shipping
The chartering colleague that has read every email. Before you have.
edge247 deploys private Full-Time Agents for shipowners, operators and chartering desks. Connected once to your approved mailboxes, it follows every vessel, cargo and deadline, and briefs your team on WhatsApp. It runs on your own hardware. You make every call.
Overnight
Last night, while the desk slept.
Drag through the night. Every broker's order, master's update and agent's line-up is read as it lands, checked against your fleet, and folded into the board your team opens at seven.
- 22:14BrokerCargo order: 10 kt CPP, Tarragona / Algeciras, 20–22 OctAdded to the cargo book. Could suit MT CEDAR after Sines.
- 23:02BrokerWeekly clean products market reportFiled. Rates kept for voyage estimates.
- 01:40Port agent, AugustaLoading progress, MT DUNLINCompletion expected this afternoon.
- 03:25BrokerRevised cargo order, laycan 21–23 OctMerged with the 22:14 order. Not a new cargo.
- 04:10Master, MT ALDERPosition and ROB reportLogged. Performance figures updated.
- 05:52Master, MT BRIARETA Lavéra 15 Oct 0600Logged, source: master.
- 06:07Master, MT CEDARSailing update: ETS Castellón 1800Laycan at Sines checked: tight.
- 06:31Port agent, LavéraLine-up: berth prospect MT BRIAR 16 Oct AMDisagrees with the master. Conflict raised.
- 06:44BrokerSub recap, MT DUNLINDemurrage differs from the agreed terms.
- 06:52BrokerCargo list, protected PDFCould not open. Listed on the board.
- 07:00Full-Time AgentMorning board sent to the desk on WhatsApp
What your desk gets back
Hours back every day, and nothing slips through the mail.
A shipping desk runs on email: brokers' cargo orders and recaps, voyage orders, agents' line-ups, noon reports. Your Full-Time Agent reads all of it and turns it into answers your people can act on.
The board is ready before you are.
Every vessel, her next port and dates, with who said what. Problems first.
Nothing in your mail is lost again.
Ask for the cleaning plan, the last line-up or the CP clause in plain words. It has already read them.
The cargo flood becomes one book.
Every broker's order and revision on one board, duplicates merged, matched against your open ships.
Laycans are watched from real positions.
Sailing updates and her own noon-report speeds, not hopeful ETAs. You hear before cancelling becomes a question.
Conflicts surface before the berth.
When master, agent and terminal disagree, you see both lines side by side first.
Performance against the CP, in two lines.
Clean noon reports against the warranty, sea apart from port, ECA apart from open sea.
How it works
Your mail in. Your answers out. The knowledge stays with you.
Open any part to see what it does. The agent lives on a small machine in your office, connects to the mailboxes you approve, and talks to your team where they already are.
How we deploy
We come to your desk. Then we stay.
edge247 was founded by a shipping professional from chartering and operations. We do not hand you software to configure. We learn how your desk works, fit the agent to it, and keep improving it on real work.
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Sit with the desk
Walk us through a Monday: which mail, which checks slip when it gets busy, and who approves what.
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Fit it to your company
Installed and secured on your hardware, taught your fleet, accounts, ports and house formats.
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Launch on live work
Your team uses it on real voyages while we watch closely, correct and tune during a 14-day Launch Watch.
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Always-On Watch
We review its real work, fix what is wrong and test every update before it reaches you.
Privacy-aware
Your hardware. Your knowledge. Your call.
A leaked firm offer or open cargo moves the market. That is why the agent and your company's knowledge live in your office, not in someone else's cloud.
On your machine
Company files, the structured wiki, memory, skills and working state live on hardware you own.
Private by setting
Model access on your own account, with training on your prompts switched off wherever the provider allows.
No public way in
Nothing on the machine is exposed to the internet. We maintain it over a private network.
Humans decide
It drafts. Your chartering team and operators decide, counter, fix and send.
Questions
What shipowners ask first.
Does it run on the vessel?
No. It runs on a small machine at your office and works from your shore-side mail and documents. It has no connection to navigation, the engine room or any vessel system.
Can it send emails or fix a cargo on its own?
No. It reads and drafts. Sending, quoting, countering, lifting subjects and fixing stay with your people. Sending is blocked at the mailbox connection itself.
Where does our data go?
Company files, the structured wiki, memory and working state stay on hardware you own. When a task needs the language model, only the context for that task goes to the provider you approved, on your own account, with training on your prompts switched off wherever the provider allows.
Which AI model does it use?
The model is a replaceable part. We start with a leading model on your company's own subscription and only switch after testing a new one on your workflows.
Do we need to change our systems?
No. It works with the mailboxes, spreadsheets and folders your desk already uses, and briefs the team on WhatsApp.
How is it priced?
Per company, after a discovery call: a one-time Implementation and a monthly Always-On Watch, set out in one proposal.
Discovery call
Walk us through a Monday on your desk.
We will show you where a Full-Time Agent gives your team time back, and where it should not be used. No pitch deck.