Maritime HSQE platform

The HSQE forms and document control platform built for shipping companies.

Flow gives ship and shore teams one cloud platform for forms, manuals, certificates, inspections, action follow up, controlled communications and operational record keeping.

  • API-first
  • SaaS per vessel
  • No maintenance fees
  • Built by Forecode
What Flow does

Ship-to-shore record keeping without the spreadsheet maze.

Flow centralises documentation, approvals, versioning, acknowledgements and follow-up across ship and shore teams. It is built for real maritime operations — not generic office admin — so the workflows match how shipping companies actually run.

  • Controlled records

    Manuals, forms and communications under version control with clear ownership and acknowledgement trails.

  • Approvals and accountability

    Configurable approval cycles, owners, due dates and statuses across every record type.

  • Audit-ready visibility

    Inspections, findings, certificates and corrective actions sit in one auditable system of record.

Functional nodes

Everything Flow handles, grouped how shipping teams think about it.

Four families of capability that cover document control, assurance, day-to-day operations and the platform layer underneath.

Records and document control

  • Manuals Document Control
  • Forms Record Keeping and Document Control
  • Change Management
  • Controlled Communications

Assurance and compliance

  • Certificates Management
  • Internal and External Inspections
  • Action Follow Up

Operations and people

  • Crew Management
  • High Risk Onboard Operations
  • Port Calls Document Management

Platform layer

  • Dashboards
  • Roles and permissions
  • SSO and 2FA
  • API integrations
  • Offline and sync support
The core

Forms are the core of Flow.

Most maritime suites bolt forms onto a CMS or a maintenance system. Flow is the other way around. Grouped form types, configurable approval cycles, machine-readable fields, inventories, submission matrices, HTML export, and dashboards built directly from the data your forms already capture.

Form builder
Approval flow
Submitted record
Modules

Ten functional modules. One coherent platform.

Each module shares the same forms core, the same permissions model, and the same ship-to-shore sync — so the whole thing behaves like one system, not ten integrations.

Crew Management

Run contracts, crew planning, pre-joining monitoring, crew matrix limits, appraisals and crew paperwork from one workspace shared by office and vessel.

  • Contracts and rotations tracked with full history
  • Crew matrix limits enforced before assignments
  • Pre-joining checks, appraisals and seafarer paperwork

Manuals Document Control

Maintain controlled manuals with full revision trails, indexed search, metadata-rich highlights, role responsibilities and vessel-specific scope.

  • Revision trails and controlled publishing for every manual
  • Indexed search across the entire manual library
  • Vessel-specific manuals where the fleet is heterogeneous

Forms Record Keeping and Document Control

Group form records by purpose, configure approvals to match office-vessel workflows, and capture machine-readable fields that feed dashboards directly.

  • Grouped form types and configurable approval cycles
  • Machine-readable field types power downstream reporting
  • Submission frequency and inventory logic per form

Change Management

Capture suggestions, run change requests through review and approval, compare revisions side by side, and publish controlled updates fleet-wide.

  • Suggestions and change requests with clear ownership
  • Side-by-side revision comparison
  • Acknowledgements monitored across recipients

Controlled Communications

Issue bulletins, letters, notices and campaigns with acknowledgement tracking, so the office can prove what was sent, when, and who confirmed receipt.

  • Bulletins, letters, notices and campaigns in one place
  • Acknowledgement monitoring across the fleet
  • Audit trails for every sent communication

Certificates Management

Track expiry, endorsements, office and vessel certificates with a historical record so renewals and audits never come as a surprise.

  • Expiry visibility for office and vessel certificates
  • Endorsements and historical state preserved
  • Alerts and dashboards driven by the same data

Internal and External Inspections

Build versioned checklist templates, run inspections with offline support, raise findings with action plans, and review trends with built-in statistics.

  • Versioned checklist templates for every inspection type
  • Findings with linked action plans and owners
  • Statistics across inspections, vessels and findings

Action Follow Up

Centralise corrective and preventive actions from inspections, audits, vettings and other inputs — with due dates, owners and statuses across the fleet.

  • One board for all corrective and preventive actions
  • Owners, due dates and statuses tracked end to end
  • Linked back to the inspection, audit or vetting that raised it

High Risk Onboard Operations

Pre-operation and post-operation workflows for high-risk activities, with structured ship-to-shore communication and an archived operational record.

  • Pre- and post-operation procedural checks
  • Ship-to-shore communication tied to each operation
  • Operational records archived for review and audit

Port Calls Document Management

A shared library of port and anchorage documents, photos, diagrams and berthing guidance — written once by the office, used everywhere by the fleet.

  • Port and anchorage library shared across vessels
  • Photos, diagrams and berthing guidance in one place
  • Updates published once, available fleet-wide
Built differently

Built differently from typical maritime software.

The platform layer reflects the way modern SaaS works: open APIs, simple identity, real-time sync, offline tolerance, and no on-prem footprint at the client side.

  • APIs out of the box

    Every module exposes APIs so Flow plugs into your maritime stack from day one.

  • Unlimited users

    No per-seat tax. Pricing is per vessel, so onboarding the whole crew costs nothing extra.

  • Granular permissions

    Role and scope-based permissions tuned for office, vessel and external collaborator patterns.

  • 2FA and Microsoft Entra SSO

    Built-in two-factor authentication and SSO for organisations standardised on Entra ID.

  • Built-in digital signatures

    Signatures are part of the platform — no separate e-signature tool to license, integrate or audit.

  • Custom dashboards

    Compose dashboards from the structured data Flow already captures, without exporting to a BI tool.

  • Real-time sync

    Office and vessel state stay in sync as soon as connectivity allows, with conflict-aware merging.

  • Offline support

    Vessel users keep working without connectivity; changes reconcile when the link is back up.

  • Device and OS agnostic

    Browser-based access on Windows, macOS, iOS and Android — no per-device software to install.

  • Zero-maintenance SaaS

    No client-side infrastructure to run, patch or pay maintenance fees on.

  • Over-the-air updates

    New releases roll out automatically. The platform you log into next week is the latest one.

  • Client IT observability panel

    An admin panel showing service status and sync health so client IT teams stay informed.

Admin panel — service status and sync
Custom dashboards from form data
Open by default

Integrations first. Custom work where needed.

Flow is integration-ready by default. Where standard connectors are not enough, Forecode builds custom integrations and workflow extensions alongside the platform — without forking the product.

Standard integrations

API-first endpoints across modules and ready-made connectors for the platforms maritime operators already run — vessel tracking, vetting, ERPs and identity providers.

Custom connectors and implementation

For non-standard systems, Forecode designs and ships custom connectors, data migrations and workflow extensions — scoped as a separate engagement.

Commercials

SaaS pricing that scales with your fleet.

  • Per-vessel subscription. Pricing tracks the size of your fleet, not your headcount.
  • Rollout scoped separately. Implementation, configuration and training are quoted per engagement.
  • Custom integrations scoped separately. Bespoke connectors and workflow work are priced as their own scope.
  • No maintenance fees. Updates, infrastructure and platform operations are part of the subscription.
Why trust Flow

Built by a team that has shipped maritime HSQE software for a decade.

  • Maritime HSQE software heritage

    The Forecode founders spent roughly a decade designing and building maritime HSQE digital products before forming the company in 2022.

  • Forecode × Navarino

    Forecode S.A. emerged from a long-running partnership with Navarino, the maritime technology group that distributes Flow to its customers.

  • Product-led capability

    The product is shaped by daily contact with shipping operators, masters and HSQE managers — not by generic enterprise patterns.

The team behind Flow

Forecode is a maritime-software company first.

The Forecode co-founders worked together for roughly a decade on maritime HSQE digital products before formalising the company. Through the Bluebook era, the partnership with Navarino, and the establishment of Forecode S.A. in 2022, the focus has stayed on one thing: end-user-centred, API-first software for shipping companies.

Read the company story
  • End-user centred
  • API-first
  • Maritime focused
  • Zero maintenance
Next step

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