The head start your due diligence deserves.
When you think you've found the one, the homework begins. boatIQ does the deep reading first — the specs, the photos, the walkthrough video, this model's known trouble-spots — so your own due diligence, and the surveyor you'll still hire, go straight to what actually matters on this boat.
Dump the listing
The link, the photos, the walkthrough video, the broker's inventory PDF — however you've got it, in one place. boatIQ sorts it.
boatIQ reads it like a surveyor
Every spec, every line of the description, every item on the inventory — plus every photo and every walkthrough video. It reads the numbers for what they actually mean, and reads the footage the way a seasoned surveyor does: a crack spidering out from a chainplate, a water-stained cabinet, a patch of worn antifouling. Video especially — sellers reveal more on camera than they mean to.
It cross-checks the model's intelligence
This exact model's known trouble-spots and real-world remediation costs, against decades of owner-forum history and hard-won field knowledge — what breaks on this boat, how it breaks, and what it costs to put right.
You get the leverage
The year-one remediation budget, the 5-year cost of ownership, an honest over- / fair- / under-priced verdict, and the exact questions that separate a good buy from a money pit.
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.
Discipline
A hand-built, human-vetted library of model-by-model intelligence that keeps it from guessing — known trouble-spots, real-world costs, and how to read a photograph the way a surveyor does.
Conscience
It would rather refuse than guess. If we can't truly see the boat, we don't sell you the report.
The 5-year cost of ownership
The asking price is just the down payment on the real cost. Mooring, insurance, sails and rigging on their true replacement clock, the engine's hours, the haul-outs — projected five years out, so you compare boats on what they'll actually cost to own, not just what they cost to buy. Almost no buyer works this out. boatIQ does it for you.
Silence is a finding, not a gap
Sellers mention the good stuff — nobody forgets to list new rigging or a recent engine. So boatIQ checks everything that should be disclosed on a boat of this age, type and construction against what the listing actually says, and rates the gaps. Chainplates unmentioned on a 35-year-old sloop is not an oversight; it's a question with critical stakes. What a listing chooses not to say is often the loudest thing in it — and boatIQ is the only report that reads it.
All before you spend a dollar on a survey.
The report pays for itself whichever way it breaks — move on a genuinely good boat before the next buyer does, open with a sharper offer, or walk away clean, all before you fly out, haul out, or write the cheque. On a good boat you're not priced out — you're timed out.
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