Document assistant for yachts and their crews

Ask your yacht’s documents. Verify every answer.

Chat2boat indexes manufacturer manuals, procedures, certificates, drawings and scans from on board, then answers by citing the exact passage and the source file. Your documents and their index stay in your instance.

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Chat2boatSearching in: Engineering
Active projectEngineering4 documents ready
What is the oil change interval for generator no. 1?10:39
Infomaniak · Qwen 3

Generator no. 1 needs an oil and filter change every 500 running hours, or once a year1.

Answer based on 1 sourceSource: Manuel_Groupe_Electrogene_GE1.pdf · Passage 410:39
Sources used (1)Passages found locally
01
Manuel_Groupe_Electrogene_GE1.pdfPage 42 · § 7.3 Scheduled maintenance

“Replace engine oil and oil filter every 500 running hours or once a year, whichever comes first.”

Open originalView passage
01 The problem

Knowledge on board is unreadable

  • The answer is already on board.

    In a manufacturer manual, a procedures binder or an email from the yard. Nobody knows which one.

  • Scans escape search.

    A scanned certificate, a photo of a rating plate or of a yard invoice stays invisible to a search engine.

  • A general-purpose AI makes things up.

    With no access to your yacht’s documents, it produces an answer that is plausible, well written and wrong.

02 How it works

Three steps

  1. Upload

    Manuals, procedures, certificates, drawings, maintenance spreadsheets, Apple documents, photos. Scans go through OCR. Organise by project: deck, engineering, interior, admin.

  2. Ask

    Ask in plain language, or run a quick action: Summarise, Translate, Compare, Explain.

  3. Verify

    Every answer shows its sources: the quoted passage, the file name, and a link to open the original.

03 Verifiable answers

An answer without a source is not an answer

The source panel accompanies every answer. It shows the passage it relies on, the document it came from, and opens the original in one click. A manufacturer manual in a language you don’t read is translated in place, passage by passage. Every answer can be copied, exported as Markdown or plain text, regenerated, and rated.

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Chat2boatSearching in: Engineering
How often should the stabilisers’ hydraulic oil be changed?11:02
Infomaniak · Qwen 3

The stabilisers’ hydraulic oil is changed every 2,000 running hours, and at the latest every two years1.

Answer based on 1 sourceSource: Wartungshandbuch_Stabilisatoren.pdf · Passage 2
11:02
Sources used (1)Passages found locally
01
Wartungshandbuch_Stabilisatoren.pdfSeite 31 · Kap. 6.2

Quoted passage · German original

„Das Hydrauliköl der Stabilisatoranlage ist alle 2.000 Betriebsstunden, spätestens jedoch alle zwei Jahre, zu wechseln.“

  1. 01
    The quoted passageThe exact passage the answer relies on, highlighted in context.
  2. 02
    The source fileThe document’s name and where the passage sits in it.
  3. 03
    The original, in one clickOpen the source file to read beyond the passage. Translate the passage in place.
  4. 04
    Answer actionsCopy, export as Markdown or TXT, regenerate, rate with a thumb up or down.
04 Supported formats

What Chat2boat can read

Documents

  • PDF.pdf
  • Word.docx
  • Plain text.txt

Spreadsheets

  • Excel.xlsx
  • Excel (legacy).xls
  • CSV.csv

Apple

  • Pages.pages
  • Numbers.numbers
  • Keynote.key

Images (OCR)

  • PNG.png
  • JPEG.jpg
  • Text recognitionOCR

Apple documents are converted before indexing. Images and scanned PDFs (certificates, rating plates, invoices) go through OCR.

05 Widget on your site

The yacht’s guest book, on self-service

Publish a chatbot on your site or your guests’ welcome page, powered by the document project you choose: welcome book, yacht presentation, charter terms. It answers only from those documents. You set which domains may embed it, the title, the welcome message, the quick actions offered to visitors, the colours, the logo, and the caps on messages, tokens and budget. A public key is all it takes to install; no secret key ever reaches the page.

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https://invites.exemple.eu/aurore
Guest bookOnline
FR|EN
Welcome aboard. I answer from the guest welcome book. What would you like to know?
Can we use the water toys at anchor?
Yes, with a deck crew member present, from 9 am to 7 pm [S1]
Welcome bookWelcome book
Widget settings
  • Public keyThe only key present in the page
    pk_live_7f3a…
  • Allowed domainsSites that may embed the widget
    invites.exemple.eu
  • Source projectThe widget answers only from these documents
    Guest welcome book
  • Title, welcome, quick actionsWhat visitors see when it opens
    Summarise · Explain
  • Colours and logoIn the yacht’s colours
  • CapsMessages, tokens and budget

White label. The application’s logo, palette and contacts can be customised too: in the colours of the yacht or its management company.

06 Where your documents go

Where your documents go

Client side

Browser and widget

  • Crew interface
  • Widget with public key
  • No API key

Your instance

Chat2boat installation

  • The yacht’s files
  • Metadata
  • Vector index
  • Model calls

Request by request

Chosen model

  • Infomaniak · Swiss host
  • OpenAI
  • Anthropic
  • They stay in your instance.

    Files, metadata and the vector index live in the Chat2boat installation. No third-party indexing service touches them.

  • A European model is available.

    Pick a model served by Infomaniak, a Swiss host, rather than a US provider. The choice is made request by request.

  • Keys never go through the browser.

    Model calls leave from the server. No API key is exposed to the client.

07 Pricing

You pay for what you use

No subscription, no per-seat licence. A prepaid wallet is debited in proportion to the tokens actually consumed, at the rate of the model you chose. Every charge is itemised, every payment produces a receipt. Let’s talk about your volume.

  1. 01Prepaid wallet
  2. 02Debited in proportion to tokens actually consumed
  3. 03At the rate of the model you chose
  4. 04Every charge itemised
  5. 05A receipt for every payment
08 Demo

Let’s see it on your yacht’s documents

A thirty-minute demo, on your own files. We show indexing, sourced answers and the widget.