Full Ahead is a young product, and we would rather be straight with you than invent customer quotes. Below are four modelled operating scenarios drawn from how small fleets are genuinely run, with every assumption behind every number written out. Nothing here is presented as a measured customer result.
Four vessels, maintenance tracked in three separate spreadsheets
A coastal operator runs four general cargo ships. Each chief engineer keeps his own running-hours sheet; the superintendent rebuilds a fleet view by hand every month. Overdue critical jobs are found during the rebuild, not before.
What the product does
- Equipment hierarchy imported once per vessel, with maker, model and criticality.
- Running-hours, calendar and condition triggers raise jobs automatically.
- Remaining useful life scored from hours, condition readings and job history.
- Overdue critical jobs surfaced on one fleet dashboard rather than in a monthly rebuild.
Modelled outcome
The monthly manual consolidation disappears. On a 4-hour-per-month rebuild at a €45/hour loaded cost, that is roughly €2,160 of superintendent time returned each year — before any avoided breakdown.
Assumes 4 hours of consolidation per month and a €45/hour loaded superintendent cost. Your figures will differ; the savings model lets you enter your own.
Preparing for an ISM external audit from a shared drive
Evidence for the audit lives in email threads, a shared drive and the vessel's own folders. Two weeks before the audit, someone starts collecting it. Findings usually concern missing evidence rather than missing work.
What the product does
- Statutory register per vessel for ISM, ISPS, SOLAS and MARPOL Annexes I–VI.
- Drills, inspections and non-conformities logged against the requirement they satisfy.
- Evidence attached at the point of work — photo, work order, receipt — not reconstructed later.
- Audit-readiness score showing what is missing while there is still time to fix it.
Modelled outcome
Audit preparation becomes an export rather than a search. The evidence pack for a vessel is produced on demand, with a tamper-evident history behind every entry.
Illustrative operating model based on how the product works, not a measured customer result.
A detention that started as an expired endorsement
Certificates are tracked in a calendar reminder set by one person. When that person is on leave, an intermediate endorsement lapses and the vessel arrives in a Paris MoU port with a document a PSC officer can invalidate in five minutes.
What the product does
- Certificate and survey expiry alerting at 90, 60 and 30 days, to a role rather than a person.
- PSC self-inspection run before arrival using the same items the officer works through.
- Prior deficiencies carried forward with their close-out evidence attached.
- Risk indicators flagged per vessel — flag, age, class, deficiency history.
Modelled outcome
A single avoided detention typically dwarfs the annual subscription. Detention costs are dominated by off-hire and rectification, not the fine.
No detention-cost figure is claimed here because it varies enormously by trade, charter and port. Model your own exposure in the ROI calculator.
Crew stop reporting because the connection drops
The office buys a cloud PMS. At sea, the satellite link is intermittent, forms time out and work gets recorded on paper 'for later'. Later never arrives in the same detail, and the fleet record degrades.
What the product does
- The whole application installs to the device and runs with no connection.
- Jobs, readings and photographs are captured offline into a sync outbox.
- The outbox uploads automatically when the link returns, preserving timestamps.
- No parallel paper process, so the record stays complete.
Modelled outcome
Reporting compliance stops depending on bandwidth. This is the difference between a system the crew use and a system the office believes is being used.
Describes the product's offline architecture. Sync behaviour depends on the device retaining the installed application between voyages.
