About
An AI-native firm for an ocean that mostly hides
MarineAware was founded on a simple observation: the incumbents built vessel-tracking platforms and later added machine learning, while the hardest maritime questions — who is hiding, what will it cost to comply, where is the cargo really going — are fusion and modelling problems from the start. So we built the other way around, from the models out.
What we are — and are not
We are an AI-native analytics consulting firm, not a data provider and not a single-platform vendor. We sit between the commercial data sources — AIS, satellite radar and optical, weather — and your decision models, building the fusion, analytics and agentic pipelines that turn raw feeds into decisions you can defend.
That means we are vendor-neutral. We help you choose the right mix of open and commercial sources for the question in front of you, rather than selling you a stream and calling it a strategy. And it means we deliver in whatever shape fits — advisory, a built system, or an embedded team.
We serve the whole maritime value chain: carriers and operators, marine insurers and P&I clubs, commodity traders and energy majors, ports and terminals, government and defense maritime-domain-awareness teams, and the investors underwriting the category.
How we work
Fusion over feeds
No single dataset wins. We combine cooperative and non-cooperative sensors with environmental and registry data, and stay neutral about the vendors.
Explainability is a feature
If an underwriter, regulator or analyst cannot defend the output, it has no value. Lineage and reasons ship with every result.
Calibrated, not confident
We validate against ground truth — verified MRV emissions, confirmed detections — and we say plainly what is production-ready versus research.
Agentic, end to end
AI is the architecture. Agents orchestrate the data, the models do the reasoning, and humans stay in the loop where the stakes demand it.
What we believe
The majority of what happens at sea is invisible to any single sensor — so intelligence is a fusion problem, not a feed subscription.
The AIS-vendor landscape has consolidated; a durable edge lives in methods and explainability, not in data access alone.
Regulation — CII, EU ETS, FuelEU, the IMO Net-Zero Framework — is now the biggest driver of maritime analytics demand, and it is only tightening.
The buyers who matter most — insurers, governments, boards — cannot act on a black box. Explainability is commercial, not cosmetic.
Work with an AI-native team.
Whether you want to work with us, invest, or just pressure-test an idea — we reply to every serious enquiry within one business day.