The Digital Round

FOR TECHNICAL SUPERINTENDENTS

What needs you, not a wall of green

The shore dashboard opens on a fleet league table ranked by readiness, and every vessel page leads with a "needs attention" panel — alarm state and high-priority open items before any chart. It is fed by roughly two documents per ship per day, typically under 5 KB, because Starlink is billed per GB.

The panel you open first

Every vessel page leads with a "needs attention" panel: current alarm state, high-priority open worklist items, and trend flags drawn from the 2-sigma anomaly counts in the daily rollup. Under it sits a readiness score, 0-100, with the component breakdown that produced it. The score is meant to be argued with, not believed. The fleet overview is a league table ranked by readiness, and every row clicks through to the ship. All of it is vessel-level: the crew aboard sees the same picture shore sees, and LOOP does not score individuals.

The two tables that answer the email you were about to send

The compare section carries a rounds table and a worklist table across the hulls. Rounds: compliance for today and the last seven days, completed against scheduled. Worklist: open items and high-priority open items per vessel. Alongside them sit about 20 headline trends with 30-day series and 2-sigma anomaly counts, and the consumption rates the rollup carries daily. Two things to hear before you look: rounds are counted per vessel and never per person — there is no named per-user login aboard today, and per-reading attribution is a roadmap item — and only one hull is sending real data.

Photos arrive with the item. Approvals happen in your inbox.

Up to eight compressed issue photos ride in with the daily rollup and land in a grid on the vessel page. The intent is to turn "leak at number two" into something a contractor can scope before the ship berths — that has not been measured, so take it as the design goal, not a result. Worklist items carry priority, photos, and pending-review and pending-approval states, with soft delete and restore. Remote approval by email already works: shore replies APPROVE or REJECT and the item moves.

Built for a per-GB link, and for no link at all

The ship does not depend on you being reachable. All data is local — Android tablets, a Windows hub, a Raspberry Pi engine-room display, an Isar database aboard — and the AI assistant runs on the ship with no internet. Sync is opportunistic and small: about two documents per vessel per day, typically under 5 KB, plus up to eight compressed issue photos. Raw history and full-resolution media stay aboard.

What is next, in the order it matters to you

None of this section exists yet — it is the build order, not the product. The defect lifecycle is next: shore-acknowledgement fields on each defect and an exportable open-defect register, so a surveyor or an owner can be handed a register instead of a re-typed list. The record shape — defect recorded, dated, acknowledged by shore — is the shape SIRE 2.0 rewards; SIRE 2.0 is a tanker instrument and does not bind a US-flag container ship, so it is cited here as good practice, never as compliance. After that, the contractor handoff pack. When the NS5 bridge lands it will be read-only: LOOP will not create a work order.

What is shipped, and what is not

This table is the point of the page. It is written to be read by a sceptic, and it is kept honest deliberately — every claim here is checkable against the running system.

CapabilityStatusNote
Priority "needs attention" panel and readiness breakdownShippedOn the password-protected shore dashboard. Alarm state, high-priority open worklist items, trend flags from the 2-sigma anomaly counts, and a readiness score 0-100 with its component breakdown.
League table with rounds and worklist comparison tablesShippedFleet ranked by readiness. Rounds compliance for today and 7 days, completed against scheduled; worklist open and high-priority open. Vessel-level only — there is no named ship-side login, so nothing is reported per person.
Issue photos with the item, and email approvalShippedUp to 8 compressed photos per vessel per day ride in with the rollup and render as a grid. Shore replies APPROVE or REJECT by email to move an item; no portal account needed.
Daily rollup on a per-GB linkShippedAbout 2 documents per vessel per day, typically under 5 KB, plus up to 8 compressed photos. Raw history and full-resolution media stay aboard. The ship runs fully offline regardless.
Real data across all five sistersIn buildBlunt version: one hull sends real rollups today. The other four are demo data, labelled as such on every tile and row. Deviation bands and cross-hull figures stay withheld until at least three hulls are real.
Defect lifecycle with shore acknowledgement and exportable open-defect registerIn buildNot present today. The worklist has priorities, photos and approval states, but no acknowledgement fields and no register export.
Contractor / riding-squad handoff packIn buildNothing to show yet. The inputs exist (open items, photos, notes, trends); the assembled pack does not.
Append-only, signed, tamper-evident record store and named ship-side usersIn buildToday the shipboard record layer is mutable and capacity-capped, and there is no per-user authentication aboard, so per-reading attribution is not yet meaningful. Ask any vendor claiming an evidence trail to show you the storage layer.
Replacing NS5, work orders, inventory, procurement, crew managementNot plannedLOOP is not a PMS and will not become one. The planned NS5 link is read-only, one-way in, with no work orders created by LOOP. It is also not an accepted MARPOL electronic record book and does not replace the CG-706 Official Logbook.
Individual performance scoring, stopwatch metrics, crew monitoringNot plannedThis is a union-crewed US-flag fleet. Reporting is vessel-level, the crew aboard sees everything shore sees, and LOOP is not used for individual appraisal. When named logins land they exist so a record can be attributed, not so a person can be ranked.

What this is not

LOOP does not replace NS5. It is not a PMS, not inventory, not procurement, not crew management, and it will not become a second place for your engineers to close jobs — the planned bridge is read-only, one-way in. It is not an accepted MARPOL electronic record book (that requires USCG NVIC 01-23 acceptance via an ACS attestation to IMO Res. MEPC.312(74), which LOOP has not done) and it does not replace the CG-706 Official Logbook. Today the shipboard record layer is mutable and capacity-capped and there is no named per-user login aboard, so nothing LOOP holds is a tamper-evident evidence trail yet and no reading is attributable to a person; the append-only signed store is in build. What LOOP can lawfully be today is the unofficial machinery log: 46 CFR 97.35-3 permits it in any preferred format, kept aboard at least a year and available to marine inspectors, and 46 USC 11304 allows official log entries in any form, including electronic. There are no savings, ROI or payback figures anywhere on this site, because none have been measured. One of five hulls is sending real data today, and the dashboard says so on every tile.

Ask for the dashboard login and look at the live hull
Fifteen minutes, engineer to engineer, with the demo vessels labelled as demo. Bring the questions you would put to your own chief — including the ones about the record store, which are the right questions to ask.
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