Twelve months ago, "AI adoption in maritime" was still a conversation about pilots, prompts, and the occasional ChatGPT experiment. Today, the same words mean something very different. Agents run for hours unattended. Microsoft 365 is shipping organisational AI by default. The EU AI Act is enforceable. And the gap between the businesses quietly capturing value and the ones still circling the runway has widened sharply.
That gap is what the 2026 AI Position Report is designed to measure.
Why we're doing this
Most of the AI research circulating in our industry comes from outside it — McKinsey, MIT, Microsoft, Anthropic. The headline numbers are useful (95% of pilots fail to deliver measurable value; 88% of organisations are using AI but only 6% are capturing real returns), but none of it is calibrated to the realities of superyacht, commercial marine, or maritime services businesses.
We want a clearer picture of where our industry actually sits:
- -What are leaders genuinely using AI for, and what are they avoiding?
- -Where is value showing up, and where are pilots stalling?
- -What's the appetite for governance, literacy, and oversight in 2026?
- -Where does the confidence gap between operators, owners, and crews really lie?
The report will turn those answers into a benchmark the industry can use — not a vendor pitch, not a hype piece, just a clean read on the current position.
What the survey looks like
The survey is short, anonymous, and designed to be completed in one sitting. It's organised into focused blocks so you can move quickly and skip anything that doesn't apply. There are no trick questions and no follow-up sales calls. Your responses feed directly into the aggregated findings.
You can save your progress and return via a resume link if you'd rather come back to it.
How to receive the report first
The inaugural AI Position Report will be distributed first through the weekly dispatch. If you'd like to be among the first to read it, the final step of the survey gives you the option to sign up. The dispatch is also where the underlying research, follow-up analyses, and any industry briefings will appear before they're published more widely.
Thank you
If you're willing to spend a few minutes on this, you're helping build a piece of shared infrastructure for the industry. The more leaders who contribute, the more accurate and useful the benchmark becomes.
