Unplanned downtime

How much did the last breakdown cost the fleet?

Farenson is a maritime work platform that keeps the working record on the vessel, not with the crew who rotate off every four to six months.

  • MV Atlantic VoyagerDaily routine completedSecond EngineerOn record
  • MV Pacific StarFuel pump sealChief EngineerDay 3 open
  • MV Northern LightHandover notes filedChief OfficerOn record
  • MV Bright HorizonSister-ship warningSuperintendent2 rotations ago
  • MV Atlantic VoyagerAux engine hours loggedThird EngineerOn record
  • MV Pacific StarBunker sample loggedSecond OfficerOn record

You bought each one for a reason

What would you stop paying for if the fleet's whole record lived in one place?

Crewing, documentation, scheduling, reports and costs each arrived as a separate system, and none of them answers a question about another. Farenson is one maritime work platform. It holds the fleet's working record in eight modules.

  • Crewing

    Ranks, contracts and sea service under one name.

  • Documents

    Certificates and medicals with their expiry dates.

  • Fleet

    Every vessel you run, and which of them are sisters.

  • Clients

    The companies you crew for and the terms you agreed.

  • Scheduling

    Who is on board, who is joining and where the rotation leaves a gap.

  • Reports and knowledge

    What happened on board, searchable across the fleet.

  • Expenses

    What a job cost, attached to the job.

  • Jobs and specialist board

    Officers publishing the dates they are free for a contract.

Business software costs about $30 a seat a month. Eight separate systems come to $240 a person a month, or $2,880 a year for one person.

You tried it and it made things up

What does an AI trained on the internet know about your fleet?

It has read the internet and none of your maintenance log. Ask why the same pump keeps failing and it answers about somebody else's ship, in the same tone as if it knew your ship.

An AI outside your dataFarenson AI
Someone exports the reports and pastes in the history first.One record for the whole fleet. There is nothing to export.
You check every answer against the reports it never read.It is being built to read the record your crew files into.
Metered by the question. The company tops the balance up.Included in the subscription. With no additional charges.

You would be training it for us

Your equipment came with the manufacturer's manuals.

Farenson is being built to read them before your crew files anything.

You will be running this fleet for years

Three things Farenson is built to keep, rotation after rotation.

The record that stays

Crew rotate. The record does not.

Farenson is built to hold reports, certificates and sea service against the vessel, not the person. The engineer who joins next starts from that record.

Sister-ship warning

A failure only has to happen once.

Farenson will match each new report against the fleet's own history and warn the sister vessels running the same equipment. Every warning will come from the experience that has already happened.

The vessel's file

Every inspection starts from the last one.

Each finding and the evidence that closed it will sit under the vessel. Farenson is built so the proof is where the inspector looks.

What does your fleet need?

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Your crew will not learn a system

How many times would you train a crew that rotates?

The office learns a system once. On the vessels it is a different crew every four to six months. Farenson is being built so what it asks of a new officer is the record they already carry.

  1. Let your crew register.

    Farenson is built so each person holds their own record. Their certificates and medicals will arrive with them, and the office will not be chasing scans.

  2. While they are in progress, add your first vessel.

    Type, flag, class and the sister-ship links between vessels will all go in the fleet register. A report has to be filed against something.

  3. Add a client and the agreement.

    Clients will hold the companies you work for and the terms you work under. Without that, a cost has nowhere to sit.

  4. Assign your crew to the vessel.

    Scheduling will line the rotation up against the vessel's calendar and show a manning gap while there is still time to fill it.

  5. You are up and running.

    Reports will come off the vessel, captured offline and synced later. Costs will sit against the job that caused them.

Your handover is whatever they wrote down

The record you built on the way here is what the next hire will arrive with.

It will already be structured and in date.

You do not need another job board

The officer you need is already between contracts.

A CV is written for the job it is sent to. Farenson is being built so an officer can publish the record they already keep, with the dates they are free for their next contract.

The company

When a contract is extended, the board will show who is free for those dates, and you contact them directly.

The officer

An officer's record will stay private until they publish it, and be taken down when they stop looking.

Available specialists

  • Second EngineerSTCW · CoC III/2
  • Chief OfficerSTCW · CoC II/2
  • Electro-technical OfficerSTCW · CoC III/6
Victor Piekarski, founder of Farenson, beside the rigging of a moored sailing ship at sunset.

I have five hours at sea, a ferry from Tallinn to Helsinki

You know things about running a fleet that I do not.

Farenson is being built from what officers, superintendents and crewing managers told us was missing.

We are early enough that the order of what gets built is still open. Have you given up on telling software people how the job actually works?

Victor PiekarskiCo-founder · your main point of contact

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