Where it started
The idea for Marintel.co crystallised during a sale-and-purchase transaction that should have been straightforward. The vessel was clean, the buyer was ready, and the price had been agreed. But the due-diligence room — a shared folder full of PDFs — kept producing surprises: an expired survey certificate nobody had flagged, conflicting vessel particulars in two different documents, a crew agreement that referenced a flag the ship no longer flew.
Sotiri Dushas, our CEO, had seen this pattern across $2 billion+ in transactions. Daryl Wallace, our CTO, had spent years building data infrastructure for complex regulated industries. The conversation that became Marintel.co started with a simple question: why does a multi-million-dollar deal still run on emailed PDFs?
Building in the open
We spent the first months talking to the people who feel the pain most acutely — shipbrokers managing data rooms for a half-dozen transactions at once, legal teams sifting through hundreds of documents under time pressure, financiers needing assurance that what they are financing is what the paperwork says it is.
The consistent theme: everyone had a workaround, and every workaround introduced risk. We built Marintel.co to eliminate the workaround.
What we have built so far
Today the platform brings together four integrated capabilities that work as a single system:
- AI-powered data rooms — vessel-specific rooms with automatic document classification, certificate expiry tracking, and cross-document conflict detection. Learn more →
- Vessel catalog — a central record for every ship in your portfolio, with sanctions screening and expiry alerts running continuously. Learn more →
- Valuations — AI-augmented vessel valuations reviewed and signed by maritime professionals. Learn more →
- Audit chain — every document access, review, and annotation is recorded in a tamper-evident log that travels with the deal.
Who is using it
Shipowners managing their own fleet records. Brokers coordinating multi-party S&P transactions. Finance teams running due diligence. Legal advisors tracking document status across a portfolio of deals. The platform is designed around role-specific workflows so each stakeholder sees exactly what they need — and not what they do not.
What is next
We are deepening the AI layer — moving from classification and extraction toward active compliance checking: surfacing the specific clause in a shipbuilding contract that conflicts with the flag state's requirements, before the inspector finds it for you.
We are also expanding the ecosystem — integrations with classification societies, flag registries, and port state control databases so the data room stays current without manual uploads.
If you are in maritime shipping and you are tired of the document chaos, we would like to show you what we have built. See our plans →