Forty-five years of marine commissioning and forensic survey discipline, applied to high-performance engineering and the evaluation of AI-integrated workflows.
Most buyers and sellers haven't noticed yet. Misreading the change is costing sellers real money and costing buyers good boats.
New powerboat sales fell 8.8% in 2025 — but the real story is in the used market, and it's a utilization filter, not a demand collapse. What the data says, the four drivers behind the cooling, and how condition now sets price.
Nobody accepts a vessel off the builder's spec sheet. So why are we deploying AI off the vendor's benchmark?
A marine commissioning framework for accepting AI into production: write the acceptance criteria before the demo, trial on your worst water, put one name on the signature line, instrument for quiet failure, and set the resurvey date.
