boatIQ — About

Every boat for sale is photographed at golden hour. Sails full, heeling just so, teak glowing. Every listing is written to make you fall in love — and most of them succeed. What none of them mention is the soft deck under the mast step, the chainplates weeping behind the headliner, or the fact that this exact model went through three sets of saildrive bellows before it turned twenty.

Falling in love with a boat is the easy part. Falling in love with the right boat — the one that carries you across an ocean instead of across your life savings — takes knowledge that used to live in just two places: the heads of a handful of grey-bearded surveyors, and the back-issues of magazines nobody keeps.

boatIQ exists to put that knowledge in your hands — before you fly across the country, before you pay to haul her out, before you write the cheque.

What boatIQ actually is

Not a chatbot with a boat prompt. It stands on three things, in this order:

01 · Breadth

A frontier AI that has read more owner-forum threads, survey write-ups and hard-won sea stories than any single surveyor could get through in a lifetime.

02 · Discipline

A hand-built, human-vetted library of model-by-model intelligence that keeps it from guessing — known trouble-spots, real-world costs, and a way of reading a photograph the way a surveyor reads one.

03 · Conscience

It would rather refuse than guess. If we can't truly see the boat, we won't sell you the report. It's the promise we build everything else around.

Whose side we're on

We work for the buyer — and the whole deal gets cleaner for it. We have no stake in whether the boat sells: no listings, no commissions, nothing to gain from a yes. When the truth shows up before the offer instead of at the survey, everyone at the table is better off. And we only do sailboats. We do them properly.

See what she'll really cost.

Drop in the listing and the photos. boatIQ does the rest.