Looking for: maritime design partners, ship managers, classification societies and flag administrations to pilot MARIZE

What we are looking for

We are building MARIZE, an AI pipeline that turns IMO convention amendments (SOLAS, MARPOL, STCW, MLC, ISM Code, BWM, COLREG) into ranked EU compliance recommendations 12 to 24 months before the European Commission acts. To take the next steps we are looking to meet:

Design partners and pilot users

• Ship managers and ship-owning groups operating EU-flagged or EU-trading fleets, willing to test pipeline output against real compliance workflows.

• - Classification societies (DNV, BV, LR, RINA, ABS and similar) interested in regulatory intelligence as a complement to class rules and statutory services.

• - Flag administrations (EU member states and beyond) needing early warning on IMO→EU regulatory change for their oversight programmes.

• - Yacht and superyacht management companies — the vessel-applicability layer makes MARIZE relevant down to 200 GT.

• - P&I clubs, maritime law firms and consultancies advising operators on compliance and PSC defence.

Data and content partners

• Sources of structured EU legislative proposals and EMSA guidance for validation input.

• - National maritime authorities in jurisdictions beyond ES, PT and IE (priority: GR, IT, FR, DE, NL, MT, CY, NO).

• - Anonymised Safety Management Manual (SMM) and SMS procedure samples for testing the regex parser and Level 3/4 features.

Technology partners

• AI/ML teams working on regulatory AI, legal NLP, RAG, document intelligence or structured extraction.

• - Companies building maritime digitalisation tools (e-certificates, vessel tracking, fleet management, e-logbooks) where regulatory intelligence is a complementary layer.

• - Cloud and platform partners for scale-up beyond Amazon Bedrock.

Research and funding

• Horizon Europe, EU Innovation Fund and similar consortia in maritime safety, decarbonisation (FuelEU Maritime, EU ETS), digitalisation and AI for public good.

• - Academic research groups working on regulatory technology, legal AI, or maritime safety science.

Why talk to us

Maritime regulation is fragmented: IMO conventions, EU Regulations and Directives, EMSA guidance, national transpositions and classification society rules layered on top of each other, with a 12–24 month gap between IMO adoption and EU response — longer than the 6–9 months in aviation. PSC detention is a real commercial risk for non-compliance. MARIZE consolidates this into a single early-warning output. If you operate, regulate, advise or build technology for the maritime sector, we should talk.