Where Pathr Co-Captain leaves the phone and lives on the boat itself.
HelmLink is in beta testing now. A small piece of hardware built to do two jobs. It speaks to the boat’s NMEA network so Pathr routes can reach your existing autopilot, no retyping. And it hosts the Co-Captain locally, so the AI advisor that knows your vessel, your routes, and the conditions keeps working even when the boat is offline.
Pathr Navigation is live. Pathr Co-Captain is next. HelmLink v1 is in beta now, starting with the app-to-boat bridge, read-only, with autopilot handoff ahead.
Boaters today juggle two worlds. The app world is fast, modern, free of headaches. The helm world is chartplotters, autopilots, and instruments that were designed before the iPhone. Getting from one to the other still means typing waypoints by hand.
And the smart part lives in the wrong place. Modern marine AI runs on the phone, where signal disappears the moment you leave the harbor. The advisor that should know your boat best is the one that goes quiet first.
Boaters plan a route in a modern app, then re-type every waypoint into a chartplotter from 2008.
Each marine electronics vendor wants the boater locked into their stack. Cross-vendor integration is rare and expensive.
To get "modern" plotting, owners are told to replace working hardware. That's a wall of cost, not a path forward.
Modern routing software sits on a phone. The autopilot sits at the helm. Nothing connects them cleanly.
Marine AI advisors run on the phone. The moment cell signal drops, the advisor goes quiet. Exactly when the boater needs it most.
HelmLink lives quietly on the boat. A small piece of hardware that speaks to the existing NMEA network so Pathr routes can reach the autopilot. And the local home for Pathr Co-Captain, so the advisor that knows your boat keeps working when cell signal doesn’t.
Pathr generates the route. Depth-aware, hazard-aware, weather-aware. Same routing brain that already ships in the app.
A small piece of hardware that speaks to the boat's NMEA network and translates the Pathr route into something the boat's existing autopilot understands.
Waypoints arrive at the autopilot without anyone manually re-entering them. The boater monitors. The boat steers.
HelmLink hosts the Co-Captain locally. The AI advisor that knows your vessel, your routes, and live conditions keeps working when cell signal drops. Onboard, offline, with you.
Pathr Co-Captain runs on HelmLink itself. The advisor that knows your vessel and your routes keeps working when cell signal doesn't. Onboard, offline, on every trip.
HelmLink rides alongside the gear you already own. No 30-year-old screen to rip out, no $4,000 plotter to buy.
Pathr is the boater's app. HelmLink is the boater's bridge. Both work whether the rest of the helm is Garmin, Raymarine, B&G, or Furuno.
A clean handoff between routing software and the autopilot. The captain stays in command. HelmLink is a bridge, not a replacement.
HelmLink v1 is in beta testing now, real hardware going out to our first testers. It's early and read-only to start, with autopilot handoff and the onboard Co-Captain still ahead. We're building it because we believe it's where this market goes.
A modern boating navigation app, live on the App Store and Google Play today. The product live conversation is about this.
An AI co-pilot built into Pathr. Briefs trips, watches the things you can't, learns your boat.
The bridge to the helm, and the future home of the onboard Co-Captain. HelmLink v1 is in beta now, read-only to start; driving the autopilot and hosting the Co-Captain onboard are what the beta builds toward.
National Test Pilot School graduate. Led flight test and validation programs: the discipline of safely qualifying complex hardware systems under real operating conditions.
Built remote-control hardware and cloud systems at commercial scale. Knows what it takes to ship reliable embedded products.
Award-winning innovative product developer. Has taken hardware from rough concept all the way through commercialization.
We have the team to build it and validate it safely. HelmLink v1 is in beta now, and we're holding it to that bar before any wider release, while the company stays focused on Pathr Navigation and Pathr Co-Captain.
We're in early beta. If you're a hardware partner, a marine OEM, or a boater who wants to help test it, let's talk.