Built by fishermen, for fishing captains.

Charter captains run a business that nobody else really understands. You take strangers offshore, you read the weather, you skipper the boat, you fillet the catch. Then you come back to a hundred unread messages across Instagram, email, WhatsApp, and SMS. Most of those messages are the same five questions. The trip you missed booking was sitting in your inbox the whole time.

And the trips you do book are getting skimmed. The booking sites take 10, 20, sometimes 30% of every trip, thousands of dollars a season out of your pocket for work you did: your boat, your fuel, your fish, your reviews. They keep the customer's details too, so the same angler books through them again next year and you pay the cut again. Run 100 trips a season on a 20% platform and that's $28,000 of your revenue, every season, forever.

That is the problem Shipmate solves. One inbox for every channel, replies drafted in your voice, in your customer's language, around the clock. A real website that ranks on Google, with your boats, your prices, your rules. Deposits straight to your bank, and the customer stays yours, so the repeat booking costs you 1%, not another 20%. No commission, no marketplace, no middleman.

We work for the captain. Not for a booking platform.

Shipmate is built by people who fish. It started because we watched good captains lose trips to a buried inbox, week after week. The technology to fix it has been around for a while. Nobody had built it for charter operators, so we did.

Shipmate is a product of Envision Labs Ltd, registered in the United Kingdom. If you want to talk to us about anything, the boat you run, the channels you reply on, what you wish existed, email hello@shipmate.chat. We read every one.

Not a booking marketplace. We do not list your boat on a directory, we do not take a cut of your trips, and we do not compete with the platforms you already use. Shipmate sits alongside your existing listings, your own website, your Instagram DMs, your Gmail. Bring your existing bookings in on day one. Keep the channels that work for you.

Not a generic AI chatbot. Shipmate is built specifically for the charter trip you actually run, with the boats you actually skipper and the fishery you actually target.