Built by a sailor who wanted better intel.

I'm Clément, a 40-year-old based in London with a background in technology and operations. Over the past decade, I've worked at Google and Meta in Operations and Customer Support — roles that taught me how to listen to users, spot systemic problems, and build solutions that actually work.

Outside of work, I'm a sailor. I've chartered boats regularly across the Mediterranean, Caribbean, and beyond with friends and family. And each time, I noticed the same thing: arriving at the marina without clear visibility into what's actually working on the boat — the water maker, navigation systems, galley equipment, safety gear. Charter listings show marketing photos, but sailors need practical intel about condition and maintenance.

The more charters I did, the more I realised the gap wasn't really about listings — it was about how little the charter company itself could see. A boat comes back at 10am, another guest is due at 5pm, and the handover in between often runs on a paper clipboard: no photos worth keeping, no timestamp, no record beyond a signature. If a fender's missing or the watermaker's dead, it's a phone call and a guess.

CharterWise Fleet exists because those two parts of my life — technology and sailing — finally intersected. I built the digital handover that charter companies were missing: verified condition data captured at every pickup and return, so a fleet manager always has an accurate, current read on every boat — and the next charterer steps onto something better than the last guest left it.

It's built on a simple principle: the people actually standing on the boat — guests, skippers, base managers — know its real condition best. Capturing that moment digitally, instead of re-compiling it from memory afterward, is what makes the record trustworthy.

If you run a charter fleet and want a clearer, more accurate read on where things actually stand, I'd love to hear from you. This is still early, and I'm building it with the operators who use it.