Transparency
How we use AI.
We use software assistance to keep this business running cleanly with a small team, and in 2.0 the app itself has an AI host, YachtBot. We'd rather tell you exactly where AI touches your data than market around it. Here's the full picture as of October 14, 2026.
Where we use it
- YachtBot, in the app. If you subscribe to YachtBot, the photos you add and the records on your boat (logs, maintenance, calendar, messages on that boat) are sent to an AI model to answer you and to notice things about your boat. Nothing it notices becomes fact until you confirm it. The model provider does not keep your photos or use them to train. If you are not on YachtBot, none of your data goes to an AI model. In plain terms: YachtBot can log a trip, book the boat, plan the season, file a report, record a service, add a maintenance item, record engine hours, draft a message and update what it knows about your boat, and every one of those is a card you confirm before anything is written.
- Listing review on shareyourboat.com. When someone submits a partnership listing, an automated assistant flags it for quality, completeness, and obvious spam. It never publishes anything on its own. We review every listing before it goes live.
- Inquiry triage. Inquiries on the marketplace are sorted by likely seriousness so we can respond quickly. The owner of the listing always receives the original inquiry verbatim.
- Drafting marketing copy. Headlines, blog posts, and feature descriptions sometimes start as drafts from a writing assistant. We edit and sign off before anything ships.
- Engineering and operations. We use coding assistants to ship faster. None of this touches your data.
What we never use it for
- Training a model on your content. Your trip logs, photos, messages, calendar entries, and maintenance notes are never used to train an AI model, by us or by the model provider. If you are not on YachtBot, none of your data goes to an AI model at all. They're yours.
- Deciding anything about your boat on its own. YachtBot never writes a record, sends a message, or books a day without you confirming the card first. What it notices in a photo stays unconfirmed until you say so.
- Marketing decisions about you personally. We never score or segment individual users for ad targeting.
- Auto-approving anything customer-facing. No listing, no inquiry response, no payment, and no account change ships without a human review step.
Questions?
Email support@boatpartner.co and we'll respond directly.
We update this page when our practices change. Last updated October 14, 2026. The full data policy is at /privacy.