Vessel vetting preparation · Built for frameworks like RISQ

Inspection‑ready,
before the inspector
steps on board.

VettingPilot turns scattered vessel documentation into a structured, evidence-backed inspection response — questionnaire answers, gap analysis, and crew briefings, prepared and verified before the vessel is alongside.

§ 30-min walkthrough · See how it fits your vetting prep
Fig. 01 — VettingPilot pipeline LAT 01°22′N / LON 103°48′E · SIN
Input
Vessel
documentation
SMS manuals · Certificates · Maintenance logs · Defect records · Crew files · Past inspection reports
Engine
7-step AI
workflow
Extract · Map · Draft · Vetting-review · Gap-flag · QA · Package
Output
Inspection-
ready deliverables
Pre-filled questionnaire responses · Evidence pack · Gap report · Crew briefing
§ 01 — The problem
01

Bulk carrier inspection prep is manual, rushed, and unforgiving.

Every dry bulk vetting requires pulling evidence from dozens of sources, cross-checking expirations, and translating operational reality into auditor-ready language. Most of this work still happens the week before the vessel is alongside.

86
documents per inspection
Spread across SMS, certs, logs, defects, and past reports.
~72h
typical prep time, per vessel
Often compressed into the 48 hours before arrival.
3.2
Current framework version
New requirements that many SMS systems still don't explicitly reference.
01Evidence sits in different systems and different offices — ship, shore, and class.
02Inspectors ask for the specific page, revision, and date. Not the folder.
03Expired certificates and superseded procedures slip through under time pressure.
04Hybrid inspections require drafted document-review responses before the visit.
05Each observation becomes a lesson that rarely gets fed back into the next vessel's prep.
§ 02 — The solution
02

Vessel documents, turned into inspection-ready evidence.

VettingPilot takes the files your team already maintains and produces the deliverables your vetting team would have produced by hand — cited to the exact document, page, and revision, and ready before the vessel is alongside.

CAPABILITY 01

Works with the files you already have

SMS manuals, certificates, logs, defect records, past inspection reports. No re-keying. No templates to maintain.

CAPABILITY 02

Every answer cites its evidence

Questionnaire responses come back with the source document, page, date, and revision attached — defensible under inspector scrutiny.

CAPABILITY 03

Gaps surfaced before the inspector sees them

Expired certs, missing logs, weak evidence, inconsistencies — flagged early with a remediation path for shore action.

CAPABILITY 04

Deliverables ready for the inspector

Pre-filled questionnaire, evidence pack, gap report, crew briefing — exported in the formats your hybrid inspection expects.

§ 04 — Outputs
04

Four deliverables, handed to you at the end.

Nothing proprietary. Nothing you have to re-type into your own system. Exportable formats, cited evidence, ready for the inspector and for your crew.

DELIVERABLE 01

Pre-filled inspection questionnaire

Drafted responses for every question, with the source document, page, and revision cited inline.

HYBRID INSPECTION · EXPORT: .DOCX / .PDF
DELIVERABLE 02

Indexed evidence pack

Every cited document, extracted, organized, and indexed by inspection question — ready for inspector review on the day.

EVIDENCE · INDEXED PDF BUNDLE
DELIVERABLE 03

Gap & risk report

Ranked list of missing, expired, or weak evidence — with owner, severity, and remediation path for shore action.

SHORE · SEVERITY-RANKED REGISTER
DELIVERABLE 04

Crew briefing pack

Plain-language brief for master, C/O, C/E, and crew — the questions to expect, the evidence behind the answers.

VESSEL · ROLE-SPECIFIC BRIEFING
§ 05 — Why it matters
05

Less scramble. More signal.

The measurable differences VettingPilot makes to how your team prepares — and to how the inspection itself runs.

72h
of document preparation, compressed into a guided review.
BEFORE · AFTER
100%
of answers cited back to source document, page, and revision.
TRACEABILITY
0
surprises. Gaps surface internally — not during the inspection.
INSPECTOR-SURFACED FINDINGS
§ 06 — Who it's for
06

Built for the teams actually preparing the vessel.

VettingPilot is designed around the working day of shore-based vetting teams, HSQE, and marine superintendents — and the master and crew on the receiving end.

ROLE 01
Dry bulk shipowners
Visibility across the fleet on vetting readiness, before commercial exposure starts.
ROLE 02
Ship management companies
A repeatable prep workflow across every managed vessel — regardless of which superintendent runs it.
ROLE 03
Vetting teams
Draft responses, evidence mapping, and gap registers — generated, not assembled by hand.
ROLE 04
HSQE teams
Close the loop between SMS intent and inspection-ready evidence across the fleet.
ROLE 05
Marine superintendents
A structured starting point for every inspection — not a blank page and a deadline.
ROLE 06
Operators preparing for bulk carrier inspections
Hybrid-inspection ready: document-review responses drafted before the vessel is alongside.
§ 07 — Positioning
07

Not a checklist tool. A vetting-prep platform.

Generic compliance software treats every regulation as a checkbox. VettingPilot is built for a single workflow: preparing a dry bulk vessel for its inspection. That narrowness is the point.

N 01°22′ E 103°48′ DWT · HANDYSIZE FP AP
A POSITION

Maritime-native. Not retrofitted.

VettingPilot speaks the language of SMS, PMS, SOLAS, MARPOL, and the vetting inspector. It treats documentation the way a superintendent does — not the way a generic document-AI does.

Scope
Dry bulk. Hybrid-inspection ready.
Evidence discipline
Every answer cited to document, page, and revision.
Human-reviewed
Designed to support your team's review, not replace it. You sign off on every submission.
Data handling
Your fleet's documentation stays isolated. No cross-tenant training.
§ 08 — Get started

Prepare the next inspection before it's urgent.

Book a 30-minute walkthrough. We'll show how VettingPilot handles a real vessel — from documents in, to questionnaire, evidence pack, and gap report out.

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