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Smart-boat control for WAGO-equipped yachts

The smart-boat system your yacht should have shipped with.

Plug-and-play control for your yacht — installed from a laptop, fully configurable to your boat, watched by a 24/7 AI engineer.

Your boat. Your control.

What you get

One system, the whole boat.

Four pieces, designed together, mapped to your boat's actual wiring — then yours to configure, not a one-size template.

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PLC control

Lighting, tanks, alarms, climate, power, monitoring — driven by generated code, custom-designed for your boat.

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Helm UI

The screen you actually use. Clean, fast, and served from the PLC itself — no separate box required.

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Keel Cloud

Remote monitoring and the customer portal — secure, private, and available anywhere.

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Victron & EPT link

Your Victron gear — Quattro, Cerbo/GX, MPPT — and EPT systems join the same picture as the rest of the boat.

Zero extra hardware

Helm-on-PLC

The Helm runs straight off the 8213's Linux side. Nothing new to buy, nothing else to fit.

For big installs

Server bundle

A small preconfigured box for larger setups, media, history and offline redundancy.

The Keel stack

How the pieces connect.

Helm UI your tablet
Victron & EPT power + charging
NMEA & instruments depth, wind, GPS
Keel Cloud · the Bosun 24/7 AI support
Keel Hub the WAGO controller

One hub, the whole boat.

The install

Installed from a laptop, in one sitting.

Plug in a laptop, run Keel Install, and it maps your boat's systems and sets everything up for you. No yard visit, no bespoke integration.

01

The AI proposes

It maps your boat's systems and proposes the setup, explaining anything unusual and only asking the questions that genuinely matter.

02

Safety checks

Automated checks confirm every mapping is safe before anything goes live. Nothing unverified touches the boat.

03

You confirm

Safety-relevant items are always human-confirmed — by the captain or engineer, not the software.

Change your mind? Go back to exactly what you had.

Before we touch anything, Keel backs up your original system in full. If it's not for you, a single rollback restores the boat to its original setup — image and all. You're never locked in.

Buy the Keel Hub unit and your original controller stays bagged and untouched — a quick hot-swap back to stock, whenever you want.

How it works

From laptop to commissioned boat.

Six steps, each one reversible. You can stop at any point and roll back to the boat exactly as it was.

1 Discover the scan finds your boat's control system.
2 Backup your current setup is saved untouched, as the safety net.
3 Map we match it to your boat's actual wiring.
4 Propose the AI suggests your boat's exact setup.
5 Install everything goes in cleanly — no specialist software needed.
6 Commission a guided walk-through proves every circuit works.
The Bosun

A 24/7 AI engineer watching your boat.

Not a call centre. A briefed AI engineer, one per boat, with your dossier, registry and changelog as context — so most problems get fixed without anyone flying anywhere.

Remote-only

Diagnosis and fixes happen over the link. On-site is available at a daily rate when a hand is genuinely needed.

Read-only by default

Telemetry and logs are read-only out of the box. Any write or download is gated per window, with you in the loop.

Per-boat dossier

Every install archives its profile, hardware, firmware, versions and known deltas. That's the Bosun's starting context.

Bench-first updates

B3 soaks every release before it reaches your boat. Your updates ride the same rung train after the reference install proves them.

The AI safety chain

Trust, with receipts.

Step 1

Proposer

The Bosun proposes.

Step 2

Second safety model

Validates — and can say "no".

Step 3

Deterministic gates

Parity + v3bench verify.

Step 4

You

Confirm the safety items.

AI proposes. The machine verifies. You confirm.

Pricing

Simple, honest pricing.

Two ways in, one subscription — priced a long way below a bespoke upgrade, without the yard bill.

Tier 1 — BYO-PLC
$1,500–2,500 install

You already have the WAGO gear. We bring the system to it.

  • Install & commissioning fee
  • 90-day free trial, then $89/mo
  • Money-back guarantee — not happy within 90 days? We roll you back to your original setup and give you a full refund.
Check my yacht
$990/yr prepaid = 2 months free. Founders' fleet: first 5 boats locked at $59/mo for two years.
Why Keel

Control your boat, without the trade-offs.

Full-boat control, a never-brick promise and a 24/7 AI engineer — against the options a captain can actually buy today.

Full-boat control
Never-brick
24/7 AI support
Self-install
Fleet learns
Keel
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✓
Monitoring appsSiren / GOST-class
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✓
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Power appsVictron VRM
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—
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✓
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Bespoke integrator
✓
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✓ included — not applicable ✗ not offered
The promise

The boat never phones home to stay alive.

Everything about Keel bends toward one sentence. It's the reason we exist, and it's written into the terms.

No kill switch. Not now, not ever.

Your subscription buys updates, remote support and the cloud. It never buys the boat. Stop paying and the extras freeze — the PLC keeps running, the Helm keeps running, the boat keeps running. It stays yours. Always.

It's written into the terms, and it conveys with the boat when you sell. What you bought keeps working, whoever owns it next.

Non-payment freezes updates, support & cloud The boat keeps running No kill switch, ever Conveys with the boat at sale
Check my yacht

A read-only fingerprint of your boat.

Flag what you think is onboard and we'll show you exactly what Keel could do with it — and how cleanly it'll integrate. No account, no pressure, no fake live scan.

Which WAGO controller?

Read-only, no account needed. This flags what you tell us — the live analysis engine is still coming online.

Pilot program

2–3 friendly boats next season.

Before we open the door, we're taking a small pilot fleet to prove this on other captains' boats.

Install fee waived

Free for the first five pilots. You get the full install, we get the proof.

$59/mo founders' rate

Locked for two years, for referenceability. Less than the full $89, forever your price.

A case study in exchange

We document the install honestly. Your boat becomes a reference, and you help shape the product.

You go first

Direct line to the team, your edge cases baked in, and the system tuned to your boat before anyone else's.

Leads land straight in our shared capture sheet. If the sheet link isn't set up yet, this falls back to email.