Human oversight behind routes your captains actually sail
Former deck officers, marine engineers, meteorologists, and oceanographers review every route before it reaches your bridge. See why some fleets accept more than 90% of what Guidance sends.
How Wayfinder Guidance works
Guidance is dynamic voyage planning built on the most accurate ocean intelligence available. A Sofar router works your fleet every day: Wayfinder Core optimizes the route, the router checks it against your safety limits, your schedule, and conditions in the region, and your customized guidance reaches the bridge at 09:00 local. When weather turns, the team is already on it, and the time, fuel, and emissions you save never come at the cost of the schedule you have to keep.
Meet the Routers
Fuel consumption and emissions output are measurable voyage outputs. Routers weigh the less quantifiable factors, such as geopolitical disruptions or schedule pressure, to ensure safety and efficiency no matter the circumstances.
Our routers have direct experience with the nuance of complicated routing calls. Our team of experts includes former deck officers, marine engineers, meteorologists, and oceanographers, bringing operational experience to every route we review.
Dhruv Anand
"Sofar sits right at the intersection of my seafaring experience and my interest in using data to improve decisions at sea."
Sahil Chanjta
"Having sailed myself, I understand the importance of reliable guidance."
Jessica Topal
SPECIALIST
"My goal is to keep everyone aligned: why we recommend a route today, what we’re watching, and how that could change."
Caleb Buchler
"A second or third opinion almost always leads to a more thorough analysis and optimal solution."
Drew Gustafson
"Daily routing guidance ensures crews and shoreside teams have what they need for safety, efficiency, and schedule compliance."
Mike Maturin- DiDomizio
"Fuel savings and efficiency must always be balanced against the safety of the crew, vessel, and cargo."
Stephen Gomes
"Balancing safety with efficiency is critical: sea state, wind, currents, and speed all have to work together."
Koushik Reddy
"There is no such thing as a static best route. The best route keeps evolving as forecasts update and confidence builds."
Customer Testimonials
Built on the Wayfinder Core
Every route our routing team reviews runs on Wayfinder Core: voyage optimization built on the most accurate marine weather forecast available, paired with a digital twin of your own vessel that updates on daily noon
reports to predict fuel within 2 percent and speed within half a knot. Ship and shore see the same routes, the same alerts, and the same realized savings at the end of every voyage.
Vessel Performance Model
Wayfinder builds a digital twin of your vessel. It retrains on your ship's daily noon reports, so the model tracks how the vessel is actually performing throughout the voyage. Sofar’s vessel performance model predicts fuel within 2% MT and speed within 0.5 kt.
Hull, propeller, engine design
Sister-ship fleet baseline
Past voyage performance
Informed by observations
Every noon
Weather
Sofar owns and operates the world's largest private network of ocean sensors , feeding millions of real-time observations into forecasts every day. These observations build directly into our forecast which is up to 50 percent more accurate than other leading models.
Voyage Simulator
Only Wayfinder lets you change route geometry and engine settings on any segment of a route, re-simulating against live weather and the digital twin after every edit and quantifying the cost, time, and fuel impact of every decision. No other platform does this.
Alerts
Wayfinder tells you when a vessel goes off track, rejects a route, is heading into a tropical storm, high wind, or high waves. Users choose the vessels, alert types, and thresholds.
Collaboration
Users can send a route, or a set of route options, by link to any other Wayfinder user. The recipient can view, compare, and activate routes for optimal transparency across teams.
View and Audit
See realized savings per voyage, per vessel, and across the fleet, with fuel and time gains attributed to the routes actually taken. At the end of every voyage, Wayfinder measures achieved speed and consumption against the terms of your charter party.
Learn how our Routing Team supports voyage optimization
