How it works
You walk the ship with your phone and photograph what you see. The app reads the photographs against 99 rules from SOLAS, MARPOL, the Load Line Convention, the ISM and ISPS Codes and MLC 2006, and writes an inspection report with the regulation reference, a severity and a corrective action for each finding.
It takes about twenty minutes for a weekly round and an hour or two for a full survey. Most of that is walking.
Sign in with your email
No password. We send a one-time link; open it on the phone you will be walking with. Do that alongside, where there is signal.
Add the ship
Name and flag are enough to start. The IMO number is optional and you can add it later — it is on the certificates, and the app checks the check digit and tells you if it does not add up rather than refusing it.
Choose what kind of inspection this is
Weekly round, monthly SMS inspection, PSC readiness, condition survey, or an official PSC inspection. It changes which areas you are asked to cover and the words used to grade what is found — a weekly round has observations and non-conformities, a PSC check has deficiencies and deficiency codes.
Walk the ship
The app lists the areas: lifeboat station, engine room, galley, forecastle, and so on. Tap an area, see what is worth photographing there, take the shots. Each photo is tagged with that area automatically. Photograph the certificate folder too — the app reads expiry dates off them.
Signal does not matter
Photographs are saved on the phone the moment you take them and upload themselves when there is signal again. You can go into a machinery space, an aeroplane, or anywhere with no coverage and keep working. Nothing is lost if the battery dies or the phone locks.
Analyse
Back where there is signal, tap Analyse. It takes a few minutes and you can close the phone while it runs.
Review every finding
This is the part that matters. Each finding can be accepted, edited or rejected. The app is often right and sometimes wrong, and you are the one who knows the ship. Reject a wrong one — that is how it learns.
Sign off
Your name goes on the report. You get a PDF for the SMS files, a link you can send to the office or the DPA, and a corrective-action list the crew can work through and close off.
What it will not do
Worth reading before you rely on it. Everything here is a deliberate limit, not a missing feature.
It does not replace a statutory survey.
It is a tool for preparing and for the ship’s own inspections. It carries no authority and issues no certificate.
It only knows what it was shown.
A certificate nobody photographed is reported as “not seen”, never as missing. An area nobody walked is reported as not inspected, not as satisfactory.
It will not invent a regulation.
Every reference in a report comes from a rulebook that is checked on every build. If the app cannot find a rule for something, it says so in plain words instead of citing a paragraph number that does not exist.
It cannot read what the photograph does not show.
A service label too small to read, a pressure gauge at the wrong angle, whether the lifeboat engine actually starts. Those come back as “check this yourself”, listed at the end of the report.
It is not a substitute for your judgement.
Nothing reaches the report until you have accepted it. A finding you reject does not appear.
Your photographs
They belong to your workspace. They are not sold, not shared with other companies, and not used to advertise anything to you. There is no third-party tracker anywhere in this app.
Camera and GPS data are stripped in the browser, before a photograph leaves the phone. Faces are detected and pixelated on the device where the browser supports it — Chrome on Android does, Safari on iOS does not, so on an iPhone you should blur faces yourself before uploading if there are any.
A report link is a long random address. Anyone holding it can read that one report and nothing else, so send it the way you would send the PDF.
$MARGOT rewards
A signed inspection that is thorough enough to be worth something as training data earns 1,500 $MARGOT, worth roughly 15 USD at today’s rate. The inspection page shows you where you stand while you are still walking, so you can see what is missing in time to go and photograph it.
- At least 30 usable photographs
- Covering at least 8 areas of the ship
- Every finding accepted, edited or rejected — not left unreviewed
- The ship has a valid IMO number
- Not the same ship again within 24 hours
An administrator reviews it before anything is paid. If it does not qualify, the app tells you which of these was the reason. You keep the report either way.
Getting better photographs
- Stand back first, then step in. One wide shot of the space and one close shot of the thing that is wrong reads far better than either alone.
- Get the label in frame. Service dates, inspection tags and pressure gauges are what turn “an extinguisher” into a finding with a date on it.
- Use the torch in machinery spaces. A dark photograph is reported as unusable and you will have walked down there for nothing.
- Photograph the certificate folder page by page, flat and square on. A certificate at an angle usually cannot be read.
- Do not bother retaking the same shot twice — near-identical photographs are detected and only one is analysed, so the second one is not charged for.