Putting each company’s own knowledge to work for maritime Technical and HSQE teams.

 AskChief, Specialised AI for maritime Technical and HSQE teams,announced that it is opening its platform to the wider market after surpassing 100 vessels in under a year of live use with shipowners and ship managers. Across customer deployments, use of AskChief typically triples within the first 90 days, reflecting how quickly it becomes part of teams’ daily work.

AskChief has worked with maritime operators including Seanergy Maritime, Castor Ships, Iblea, Delia, IMECS (part of the ITOCHU Group) and others. Their Technical and HSQE teams have helped shape AskChief Technical and AskChief Compliance around real tasks onboard vessels and in shore-based offices.

“AskChief AI turns advanced technical and compliance expertise into clear answers for our shipping professionals to use in real time, onboard our vessels and at the office. That’s the kind of tool a modern fleet should be running,” said Stamatis Tsantanis, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Seanergy Maritime Holdings Corp.

Shipping companies have the knowledge they need, but it is fragmented across manuals, SMS, vessel records, past cases and experienced people. Teams waste time rebuilding context, while lessons from one vessel may never reach the next.

AskChief makes that knowledge usable in the task. AskChief Technical brings evidence and fleet experience into troubleshooting and technical operations. AskChief Compliance turns procedures, regulations and records into faster checks, audit preparation and evidence-backed responses. For multi-step work, AskChief can gather the relevant material, examine it in context and prepare it for review, helping teams move from issue to action with sources visible and professionals in control.

“Generic AI can give you an answer. Specialised AI moves the work forward,” said Michalis Gkontas, Co-Founder and CEO of AskChief. “AskChief is built around each shipping company’s own knowledge and experience. After proving this approach in live maritime operations, we are ready to bring it to the wider market.”

“After 20 years in maritime, including as a technical manager, I learned that expertise is rarely the bottleneck. The bottleneck is getting the right evidence in front of the right person at the right time,” said Vassilis Mavrogiannis, Co-Founder and Chief Maritime Officer at AskChief. “AskChief does that groundwork across manuals, vessel history and previous cases. Superintendents, chief engineers and DPAs can focus on what requires their expertise: challenging the evidence, applying judgement and deciding what happens next.”