An autopilot that sees the wave coming —
and steers before it hits.
Conventional autopilots react after the bow gets pushed off course. This one measures the sea as it arrives along your hull, predicts the push, and has the rudder moving before the hull ever slews. The feature racing systems sell for five figures — for your own boat.
Reference kit: ≈ $1,221 · open-source core · your data stays on your boat
Recorded in demo mode. No sensors, dongle or helm were connected — every reading is produced by the vessel model inside the server, through the same code path the hardware will use. Nothing here is a sea trial. Rendered on the GPU at 60 frames per second of simulated time.
§What it does for you
Steers ahead of the wave
The sea is measured as it travels along your hull, so counter-rudder starts before the stern swings — a calmer course, less rudder work, less fuel and less wear on the drive.
Fails safe by design
The predictive layer sits on top of a proven open-source pilot and never replaces it. If the predictive layer stops for any reason, the stock pilot is already steering, with no bump at the helm.
Learns your boat
It starts from a profile for your hull type and tunes itself to your boat over the first weeks underway. Authority starts low and earns its way up on your own sea trials.
No holes in the boat
Three sealed wireless motion pods mount high on the hull and run on boat power. One small box at the helm. Add the optional battery and a pod comes with you — a day sailing the dinghy, or a borrowed boat.
Your data stays aboard
Everything runs on the boat. Updates arrive as signed profiles you can inspect; no account, no subscription, no telemetry leaving the vessel unless you choose to share it.
See the sea it sees
The cockpit display draws the sea state the pilot has measured and where it expects the boat to be next — the same digital twin in the videos above.
§Works with the drive you have
Tier 1 — supported and tuned: SeaStar-class reversible hydraulic pumps and balanced rams. Ships with calibrated steering profiles.
Tier 2 — community: any drive the open-source pilot already supports, including wheel pilots. Standard heading and rudder commands; you own the tuning.
§What is in the kit
Sensor pod set
Three sealed wireless motion pods: bow, midships, aft.
$370Base computer
The brain at the helm, with the cockpit display built in.
$765Drive interface
Connects to your existing hydraulic or wheel pilot.
$86Actuator package (optional)
The complete hydraulic stack if your boat has none.
$2,995Reference kit ≈ $1,221, assembled, flashed and calibrated. The full breakdown is on the kit & pricing page.
§Buy Autopilot coming soon
The hardware packages — the three motion pods, the base computer and the drive interface, with the pilot and the prediction engine installed — will be sold here. The store is not open yet; until it is, the kit and its pricing are on the kit page, and an engagement can be booked from the front page.