The boating industry is valued at **£3.97b domestically and $45b (£33.2b) globally**, with 30m vessels owned and more than 150 million active boat users worldwide. However, the industry is suffering from **aging fleet** with significant risk to human life and the environment. The industry is also tackling **an acute shortage of skilled surveyors and significant EDI challenges**: only 2% of surveyors are women. **Our innovation originates from an acute business need to revolutionise surveying.** Our focus is on developing a product geared for digital age and emerging markets. The project intends to radically disrupt the insurer/owner/surveyor relationship by developing a mobile app: "**MIR**" (**M**arine **I**nspection by **R**emote). **MIR offers a cloud-based, harmonised condition assessment, underpinned by an AI-supported database of risk and failure modes.** By reducing travel needs, lengthening product life and improving safety, the project offers **significant environmental and socio-economic impacts**. With the built-in educational component of the app and its disrupting recruitment strategies, MIR will open the labour market to new talent and promote EDI values.

"The project intends to radically disrupt the insurer/owner/surveyor relationship by developing a mobile app: **"MIR"** (**M**arine **I**nspection by **R**emote). MIR offers a cloud-based, harmonised condition assessment, underpinned by AI-supported database of risk and failure modes. By reducing travel needs and lengthening life of vessel the project can bring significant environmental impact. Built-in educational component of the app will open the labour market to new talent, promoting inclusion of women in this male-dominated profession." - Dr Daria Cabai, yacht designer and naval architect from Navalmartin - ship design and marine consultancy