Buy your next boat with eyes wide open.
eSurveyor is the intelligence platform for yacht buyers. Import any listing, compare it to the boat you actually want, and walk into every broker conversation knowing exactly what to ask.
Built by a yacht broker who’s actually cruised the boats he sold.
Buying a yacht is the biggest purchase most people make outside a house. The tools haven’t kept up.
Right now, the typical buyer:
- Scrolls through dozens of listings on YachtWorld and Boats.com with no way to compare them
- Trusts broker descriptions written to sell, not to inform
- Spends $1,500–$5,000 on a survey before knowing if the boat is even worth the trip
- Asks generic questions because they don’t know which red flags matter for that specific make and model
- Makes a six- or seven-figure decision on gut feel and a few sea trial hours
You can do better. eSurveyor gives you the same analytical edge that experienced brokers and surveyors carry in their heads — without the 20 years of mistakes it took them to build it.
From listing to confident offer in four steps.
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Import the listing
Paste the listing text from YachtWorld, Boats.com, Yachtr, or any broker site — or drop in a saved PDF. eSurveyor extracts the specs, equipment, and description into a structured listing on your dashboard.
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Define your dream boat
Tell us how you'll actually use her — coastal cruising, bluewater passages, charter income, weekend daysailing. Save as many buyer profiles as you need; switch between them as your search evolves.
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Run the deeper analysis on your AI of choice
For research questions and marketability sanity-checks, eSurveyor builds a structured prompt tailored to that exact make, model, and year. Run it on ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini — whichever AI you trust — then paste the answers back.
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Get your buyer's brief
A clear-eyed view of fit, condition, total cost of ownership, and a custom broker question pack — all before you book a sea trial.
Why the deep research runs on your AI.
Most “AI-powered” tools hide their model, charge you for tokens you can’t see, and ask you to trust a black box on a six-figure decision.
eSurveyor handles the boring structured work — extracting specs from a listing, rolling up component health, scoring fit against your buyer profile, building the TCO worksheet — automatically. For the open-ended research (known model issues, comparable-market sanity checks, AI marketability second opinions), we hand you a carefully structured prompt and you run it on the AI you already trust: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or whatever’s next.
You see every input and every output. You aren’t locked into our model choice. And when an AI gets something wrong — and they all do, sometimes — you’ll see it.
Built by someone who’s been on both sides of the dock.
I grew up in Orange County working in IT. In 2012 I sold it all and went cruising — 17,000 nautical miles over seven years, from the Sea of Cortez down to Zihuatanejo, the long slow milk run down the Pacific coast.
Three years selling boats internationally taught me something I should have known as a buyer: most people walking into a broker’s office have no idea what to ask. They’re armed with a YachtWorld printout and a dream. The broker has decades of pattern recognition. It’s not a fair fight.
eSurveyor is the tool I wish my buyers had been using. It won’t replace a good surveyor or a sea trial — nothing should. But it will get you to the survey stage with the right boat, the right questions, and a clear head.
— Founder, eSurveyor
Read the full story →Who eSurveyor is for.
The first-time buyer
You've been dreaming about this for a decade and the listings are starting to look like Greek to you. eSurveyor translates broker-speak into plain English and tells you what actually matters for the kind of cruising you want to do.
The serious shopper comparing five listings at once
You've narrowed it down but each broker swears their boat is "the one." eSurveyor builds a side-by-side comparison so you can see past the photography and the staging.
The remote buyer
The boat is in Annapolis. You're in Phoenix. You're not flying out for every listing that catches your eye. eSurveyor helps you vet from a distance and decide which boats earn a plane ticket.
The upgrader
You know boats. You've owned three. You don't need a primer — you need a faster way to filter the market and a sharper list of questions for boats you already half-know.
What you get with every analysis.
Listing breakdown
Parsed specs, equipment, age of major systems, and what's missing or vague in the broker's description.
Buyer-fit score
How well each prospect matches your dream-boat profile, with hard misses (must-haves the boat doesn't satisfy) called out separately.
Component Health Index
A 0–100% rollup of how much useful life is left in the major systems — engine, rigging, sails, batteries, bottom paint, fuel tank.
Marketability score
How rare or common a profile like this is on the used market: common / available / rare / edge-case. Includes an AI second-opinion workflow you can run on your own model.
Total cost of ownership
Acquisition (one-time) and annual operating costs, line by line. Quick offer chips at -5%, -10%, -15%, -20% with low-ball warnings.
Deal pipeline
Every listing carries a stage — researching, contacted, viewing, offer, survey, closed/dropped — with an activity log for broker calls and notes.
Compare view
True side-by-side of up to 4 prospects, with per-row winners highlighted.
Broker question pack
Tailored questions generated from the gaps and condition signals on this specific listing — plus a one-click broker portal so the broker can answer in-app via a magic link.
Survey-readiness checklist
What's still unknown about the boat that you should clarify before paying for travel or a marine survey.
Your next boat is out there. Find her with your eyes open.
Free to start. No credit card. No fine print.