About · Who is behind it
Built by people
who are doing the job.
A purser with over a decade in the superyachting industry.
A VVIP corporate pilot with fifteen years' experience who builds software.
Between us, we've done all of the admin APRON streamlines.
From the yacht
The hub between
the yacht and the office
APRON started on board. We'd seen the same thing on every boat: good HODs and crew burning out, buried in admin with little time to train the juniors coming up. More turnover, higher recruitment fees.
A dozen systems, each solving one isolated problem, and nothing between the yacht and Management but email and an ancient, inefficient portal. So we set out to build the hub of the ecosystem: the software that sits between the yacht and Management and holds the operation together.
The aim was never software for its own sake. It's efficiency that turns into a better quality of life on board, crew retention, and the headroom to do the more important job: to look after owners and guests to the highest standard, every day. Happy crew, happy owner.
From the flight deck
A fleet of more than
twenty aircraft
One of us managed a fleet of more than twenty aircraft and their crew: training, rostering, employment, safety audits and contract tenders. He has lived the cost of scattered systems, and has already built SaaS that aviation operators use today.
Built with the industry
Fixed in days,
not months
Both platforms are shaped by the people who do the job. Captains, HODs, crew and working developers have been, and still are, testing the systems and telling us which pains matter most and what they want built next. That's how the products became what they are today.
We're also the people you deal with. The two of us who talk to the vessels also build the product and read the support inbox, so when something is wrong we hear it directly, and it's fixed in days, not months.
TouchBase & APRON
Your side of it, and the vessel's
APRON is the system the Captain, HODs and Management use to run the vessel. TouchBase is the seafarer's personal app, and the two are built together: when a vessel runs APRON, each crew member's day on board lands in their TouchBase, and their career record stays with them when they sign off.
The vessel pays for APRON. TouchBase is free for crew.
Tell us your pain points. We will work with our teams to get them into the next update. Tell us what is wrong with the app and we will fix it: hello@touchbasemaritime.com. If your captain wants APRON, start at apronmaritime.com or write to hello@apronmaritime.com.