berthr proDesign partners wanted
berthr pro is berthr for crewed charter. The same guests, communication and logistics — plus the waivers, safety briefings and manifests a commercial operation has to keep.
berthr pro is in design. We're working with a small number of charter operators and schools to build it around how they actually run a season — not around how we imagine they do. The screens below are what we're building toward.
The guest journey
From the first message to the review. Here's what each part looks like.
Every guest completes a pre-charter profile before they travel — dietary restrictions, allergies, activity preferences, destination wishes, medical notes, emergency contacts, and a signed waiver.
The captain doesn't read eight replies and assemble them. They open one screen: who's aboard, what they can't eat, what needs an EpiPen, and who still hasn't signed.
If you already send a preference sheet — your own, or the broker's — keep sending it. A guest uploads the completed form and berthr pro reads it into the same structured profile. Nobody has to change how they collect anything.
Guests who'd rather not fill in a form can chat with the boat's AI assistant instead. It asks the same questions, follows up on the answers that matter, and produces the same structured profile.
A guest who's asked about their shellfish allergy by name, two weeks before they board, has already decided this outfit is serious.
Every charter needs the same sequence: welcome, waiver chase, what to pack, where to meet, and a note the morning of. Right now someone writes those by hand, every time, for every party.
berthr pro schedules them off the charter date and sends them. The assistant handles whatever the guests ask back.
The captain runs the safety briefing the way they always have. The difference is that each guest acknowledges it on their phone, the manifest is confirmed against who actually boarded, and all of it is timestamped.
When an insurer or an inspector asks whether the briefing happened, the answer stops being "yes, of course" and starts being a record with names and times on it.
The captain publishes a daily schedule and the guests see it. Weather moves the departure an hour — the captain changes one line and everyone knows.
No printing, no whiteboard, no eight people asking the same question about dinner.
A post-charter form collects honest impressions first. If something went wrong, the operator hears it directly and can fix it. If it went well, the guest is nudged toward a public review while they still feel it.
The review you don't have to chase is the one you asked for at the right moment.
For the crew
A charter boat is three or four people making one experience. They shouldn't be finding out what the guests need from each other.
A party of eight can arrive as eight long preference sheets. berthr pro does the reading and the note-taking, and the brief is what anyone actually has to look at.
No forwarding the same eight emails to whoever needs them, and no reciting the allergy list at the dock on the morning of.
Not eight profiles to read and cross-reference — one brief with the restrictions already resolved across the whole party and quantities for the days aboard. Whether that's a chef or the captain at the market depends on the boat.
Captain, mate, cook, steward — same charter, same brief, no permissions to manage. An allergy should reach the person cooking, not sit in the captain's inbox.
The brief, the provisions list and the menu all arrive as drafts. The crew edits them here and the edited version is the one that counts — then prints or exports it, because a market and a galley are no place to be browsing a web app.
A guest updates their profile the week before departure and the brief updates with it. Nobody re-types anything.
What's in it
Everything we're designing into berthr pro. Design partners get a say in the order it's built.
Dietary, allergies, activity preferences, destination wishes, medical notes, emergency contacts.
Guests complete their profile by chatting with the boat's AI assistant instead of filling in a form.
Liability, medical disclosure, risk acknowledgement — signed before arrival, stored per charter.
Delivered at departure, acknowledged on each guest's phone, timestamped and logged.
The captain confirms who actually boarded, against the party on file.
Full party details, emergency contacts and medical flags, in one place per charter.
The group's preferences and restrictions summarized into a planning and shopping brief for the captain.
Built from what the group said they wanted and where the boat is going.
The captain publishes it, guests view it on their phones, updates land live.
Packing list, meeting point, what to expect — scheduled off the charter date.
Available to guests before and during the charter, configured with the boat's own details.
Private collection first, then a nudge toward a public review.
A management company sees every boat, every upcoming charter and every manifest in one place.
Each boat has its own captain; the company has oversight across the fleet.
Captain, mate, cook and steward all open the same charter. Small crews work as one team, so there are no permissions to manage.
A guest updates their profile the week before departure and every brief updates with it. Nobody re-types anything.
Keep sending the form you already use, or the broker's. A guest uploads the completed sheet and it is read into the same structured profile — no one changes how they collect.
The brief, the provisions list and the menu arrive as drafts. The crew edits them, the edited version is the one that counts, and it prints or exports to take ashore.
The same chain — intake, waiver, briefing, manifest — serves instruction, not just charter. A checkout captain signing someone off, or a school running paid instruction, needs that documentation more than a charter does. And berthr already counts days aboard, hours underway and miles into a record the student can take with them.
For management companies
A single captain runs one boat. A management company runs a season across a fleet, and needs to know — this morning — which parties haven't signed waivers and which boats have briefed their guests.
Each boat keeps its own captain and its own guests. The company gets oversight across all of them.
berthr pro isn't built yet, and that's the offer. A handful of operators get to shape it around a real season rather than inherit someone else's assumptions.