One system, the whole boat.
Four pieces, designed together, mapped to your boat's actual wiring — then yours to configure, not a one-size template.
PLC control
Lighting, tanks, alarms, climate, power, monitoring — driven by generated code, custom-designed for your boat.
Helm UI
The screen you actually use. Clean, fast, and served from the PLC itself — no separate box required.
Keel Cloud
Remote monitoring and the customer portal — secure, private, and available anywhere.
Integrations
Keel Hub talks to almost everything — Victron, Mastervolt, EPT, NMEA, DALI, Zigbee, Home Assistant and more.
Runs on your PLC
Keel Hub runs on the WAGO PLC you already have — nothing new to buy, nothing else to fit.
Server bundle
A small preconfigured box for larger setups, media, history and offline redundancy.
Everything on board. One hub, one screen.
Keel Hub talks to almost everything.
It's a real industrial controller built on open standards — Modbus, MQTT, NMEA 2000 and Ethernet — so nearly every smart device on your boat lands in one screen. Not just what we ship: the gear you already own.
Marine power & energy
- Victron — Cerbo/GX, Quattro, MPPT, SmartShunt
- Mastervolt
- EPT power & engine
- Schneider PowerTags
- Modbus — AC panels & more
Instruments & nav
- NMEA 2000 — depth, wind, GPS, autopilot *
- NMEA 0183 — older instruments *
- Signal K — the open boat standard *
- Radar & AIS *
Smart home & DIY
- ESPHome · ESP32 boards
- Zigbee · Z-Wave *
- Home Assistant
- Samsung SmartThings *
Lighting & connectivity
- DALI lighting
- Peplink / Pepwave routers
- Starlink
- Your boat's Wi-Fi
* May require a Keel Bridge.
Installed from a laptop, in one sitting.
Plug in a laptop, run Keel Install, and it maps your boat's systems and sets everything up for you. No yard visit, no bespoke integration.
KeelAI proposes
It maps your boat's systems and proposes the setup, explaining anything unusual and only asking the questions that genuinely matter.
Safety checks
Automated checks confirm every mapping is safe before anything goes live. Nothing unverified touches the boat.
You confirm
Safety-relevant items are always human-confirmed — by the captain or engineer, not the software.
Change your mind? Go back to exactly what you had.
Before we touch anything, Keel backs up your original system in full. If it's not for you, a single rollback restores the boat to its original setup — image and all. You're never locked in.
Buy the Keel Hub unit and your original controller stays bagged and untouched — a quick hot-swap back to stock, whenever you want.
From laptop to commissioned boat.
Six steps, each one reversible. You can stop at any point and roll back to the boat exactly as it was.
Your own 24/7 AI engineer, always on watch.
Not a call centre. A dedicated AI engineer for your boat, one that already knows it inside out — so most problems get fixed in minutes.
Remote-only
Diagnosis and fixes happen over the link. On-site is available at a daily rate when a hand is genuinely needed.
Read-only by default
It watches everything, but only changes anything when you approve it.
Your boat's file
When we install, we build a file on your boat — what's on board and its history. KeelAI starts from that, so it knows your boat as well as you do.
Updates, proven first
Every update is tested and proven before it reaches your boat — you're never the guinea pig.
Trust, with receipts.
Proposer
KeelAI proposes.
Second safety model
Validates — and can say "no".
Machine checks
Automated checks verify every change before it ships.
You
Confirm the safety items.
AI proposes. The machine verifies. You confirm.
The Helm, and the portal behind it.
The screen your captain uses every day — and the portal that manages and monitors the boat from anywhere.
Simple, honest pricing.
Two ways in, one subscription — priced a long way below a bespoke upgrade, without the yard bill.
You already have the WAGO gear. We bring the system to it.
- Install & commissioning fee
- 90-day free trial, then $89/mo
- Money-back guarantee — not happy within 90 days? We roll you back to your original setup and give you a full refund.
Our pre-imaged 8213 WAGO unit, shipped ready to install.
- Pre-imaged 8213 controller
- 12 months included
- $89/mo after
- OEM controller bagged as rollback
Control your boat, without the trade-offs.
Full-boat control, a never-brick promise and a 24/7 AI engineer — against the options a captain can actually buy today.
The boat never phones home to stay alive.
Everything about Keel bends toward one sentence. It's the reason we exist, and it's written into the terms.
No kill switch. Not now, not ever.
Your subscription buys updates, remote support and the cloud. It never buys the boat. Stop paying and the extras freeze — the PLC keeps running, the Helm keeps running, the boat keeps running. It stays yours. Always.
It's written into the terms, and it conveys with the boat when you sell. What you bought keeps working, whoever owns it next.
A read-only fingerprint of your boat.
One quick question — tell us your boat and whether it already has a WAGO system onboard, and we'll tell you if Keel is a fit. No account, no pressure, no fake live scan.
2–3 friendly boats next season.
Before we open the door, we're taking a small pilot fleet to prove this on other captains' boats.
Install fee waived
Free for the first five pilots. You get the full install, we get the proof.
$59/mo founders' rate
Locked for two years, for referenceability. Less than the full $89, forever your price.
A case study in exchange
We document the install honestly. Your boat becomes a reference, and you help shape the product.
You go first
Direct line to the team, your edge cases baked in, and the system tuned to your boat before anyone else's.