Funded before it’s asked for.
Proven when it’s done.
EUR 8,400 is held against this job before you start.What the agent sees before accepting the work
The amount is committed against the vessel's allocation and locked to that one job, before anybody lifts a crate. Then, at the moment of handover, the agent and the crew member each sign on their own phone — on a dock, with no signal. BRDG holds the record. It never holds the money.
Most port calls are arranged in the wrong order.
The provisioning, the berth, the fuel and the customs charges are arranged on the vessel's behalf in the moment, and the paperwork catches up weeks later, somewhere else. By the time a line is questioned, the only record of the handover is a signature on a paper docket from someone whose name nobody can read.
BRDG changes the order. The vessel's funds are organised against the job before the work starts, and the handover is made provable as it happens.
The money is committed first
The vessel commits the funds against a specific job. Until that commitment exists and covers the amount, the job does not become work an agent can start. No agent carries a port call the vessel has not backed.
Both people sign the handover
When goods or service actually change hands, the agent signs and the crew member signs, each on their own device. Two signatures on one record, made at the moment it happened rather than reconstructed afterwards.
It works with no signal
A fuel dock, a basement store room, a tender at anchor. The two phones pass the record between themselves on screen, with both of them offline. When signal comes back, the two copies sync and are checked against each other.
Nothing is edited afterwards
Every step is timestamped and written once. The captain, the agent and the management company read the same record, and it exports whole. Correcting something adds a line; it never quietly replaces one.
Both people sign. Neither signature can be forged by us.
Each person's phone makes its own signing key the first time they are set up, and that key never leaves the phone. We never hold it and never see it. That has one blunt consequence worth saying plainly: BRDG cannot produce your signature. Not by accident, not under pressure from a vessel, not if somebody gets into our systems.
Only your phone can make your mark, and only the vessel's phone can make theirs. If a handover carries both, both people were standing there.
How a signed handover worksFigures that describe how it is built, not how well it is selling.
Told straight, because you have been sold vapour before.
BRDG is being built by its founder for a pilot with vessels he knows, not launched by a marketing department. Here is exactly what runs, what is being built for November, and what does not exist at all.
The record itself. Task intake, an agent claiming and executing the work, captain sign-off against a threshold, receipt reconciliation with variance flagged, and a log that cannot be edited after the fact. It runs end to end, on the same schema that will back it in production. It still runs against a local data layer rather than a live database, so there is no instance you can log into yet.
The funding gate that stops a job reaching an agent unless the money is committed to it, and the two-phone signed handover that completes with both devices offline. Both are being built now for METSTRADE, and neither is finished. When they are, this page will say so.
BRDG moves no money. There is no custody, no escrow, no payment processing and no card. Amounts shown are tracked against the vessel's allocation. There is no fleet of customers to name, so this site names none.
I will be in Amsterdam. I would rather hear it does not work.
If you run port calls for a living, I want half an hour and your honest reading of whether this solves the payment problem or misses it entirely. Bring the objection you think kills it.
Benjamin J. Yeager · Founder
Chief officer on a 60m motor yacht. Port agent experience.