The pilot ladder compliance database for marine pilots.
Search any vessel's deficiency history before you board. File your report by voice in under a minute.
The search you need. The tools you want.
Vessel History
Every pilot starts from scratch. Until now.
Search any vessel and see every deficiency report filed by pilots across your region, color-coded by severity, most recent first. The compliance picture is there before you leave the pilot boat cabin.
Near Miss
You handle the ship. LadderWatch handles the paperwork.
Log the close call the moment it happens, before the details fade. Reports route directly to your association, preserving the safety record without asking pilots to recreate the event later.
Voice Reporting
The report writes itself.
Say what you saw. LadderWatch transcribes it, identifies the deficiencies, and pre-selects the matching codes. Review and submit in under a minute. No typing, no dropdowns, no remembering codes.
Admin Portal
Still relying on spreadsheets?
Filter reports by severity, date, or vessel. Manage the near miss workflow from intake to closure. Oversee your roster. No more inbox threads, no more spreadsheets.
Search any vessel, any time.
Type a vessel name or IMO number. LadderWatch returns the deficiency history from every pilot in the network, color-coded by severity, with the most recent boardings on top. Compliance picture in seconds, before you leave the pilot boat cabin.
Describe the boarding. The form fills itself in.
Tap the microphone. Describe what you saw on approach and after your climb in plain language. LadderWatch transcribes the audio, identifies the deficiencies you mentioned, and pre-selects the matching codes from the SOLAS-aligned taxonomy. You review, confirm, submit. No typing, no scrolling through dropdowns, no remembering codes. The boarding writes itself.
Start the report on approach. Pocket the phone, climb the ladder, bring the ship alongside. Pick it back up when there's time and dictate more. The new audio joins what's already there. Submit when the job is done.
An admin portal with the workflow built in.
Association admins get a working portal. Filter the report feed by date, severity, PTA type, or class society. Track near miss and injury reports through dedicated workflows, from intake through closure, with exports ready for outside organizations requesting safety data. Anonymize pilot identities when sharing externally. Manage member rosters in one place. The spreadsheets stop here.
Built by a pilot for pilots.
LadderWatch was built by a working marine pilot in Southeast Alaska who got tired of going aboard blind. There was no shared database of vessel deficiencies, no easy way to know that the ladder on the ship ahead of you had been flagged three times in the past year. Every pilot was starting from scratch, every time. And if you found something dangerous, there was no easy way to warn the pilot in the next district before they climbed the same ladder.
The mission is straightforward: make deficiency history visible and near miss reporting effortless, so that every pilot, regardless of port or association, boards with better information. A step ahead means knowing what's on that ship before the ladder is even rigged.
Ready to reach the next level with LadderWatch?
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