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Case study · Custom web application

An audit platform that can prove its own integrity.

Ship Audits International replaced a document-driven reporting workflow with a purpose-built platform: evidence captured aboard the vessel, findings sealed with a digital signature, and a branded report produced in minutes.

Client
Ship Audits International
Sector
Maritime compliance
Engagement
Custom audit platform
Platform
Cloudflare edge

The situation

Ship Audits International conducts navigational audits aboard commercial vessels. The reporting behind that work was document driven: checklists, photographs, findings, and invoices assembled by hand after the auditor came ashore. Assembly took hours per audit, and a finished report was only as defensible as the paper trail behind it.

What we built

Sylerity designed and built a purpose-built audit platform: a cloud-hosted portal where lead auditors complete navigational audit checklists aboard the vessel, capture photographic evidence from a phone or tablet, assign risk at the section level, and close out findings with a locked digital signature. When the audit is complete, the platform produces a fully branded, print-ready report and a client invoice on demand.

Built for proof

Every change in the system is written to a SHA-256 hash-chained activity log, so a completed audit can be proven unaltered after the fact. That matters in a field where an audit is a professional judgment someone may later challenge: the record shows what was entered, when, and that nothing has quietly changed since.

Built for conditions at sea

Connectivity aboard a vessel is intermittent at best, so the platform autosaves continuously and tolerates dropped connections without losing work. It runs on Cloudflare's global edge with daily off-site backup, hosted and managed by Sylerity, so the audit team's attention stays on the vessel rather than the software.

Outcome
  • Report assembly that took hours of manual work now takes minutes
  • Every audit is backed by a tamper-evident, hash-chained record
  • Evidence is captured on the spot from a phone or tablet
  • Branded reports and client invoices are produced on demand
  • Work survives the intermittent connectivity typical at sea

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