- Company Synopsis: DOLGO is an expertise platform for shipyards, ships, and marine autonomy developers. It addresses a critical gap: the rapid loss of tacit, experiential knowledge held by senior operators, marine engineers, naval architects, and field technicians.
- Mission: Preserve the mission-critical expertise that keeps maritime operational
- Problem Being Solved: The problem being solved is urgent: the average age of U.S. shipyard workers is 55, while shipbuilding demand is set to double over the next decade. Without intervention, the industry faces a critical skills cliff edge.
- Company Leader: – Founder & CEO Nithesh Wazenn
- Location: Tampa, FL
- Address: 1211 E. Kennedy Blvd, Tampa, Fl, 33602
- Website: https://dolgo.ai/
- LinkedIn Site: https://www.linkedin.com/company/dolgo-inc/
- Contact Info: hello@dolgo.ai 1+312-493-3994
- RPC/ Relationship: I am the Chief Reliability Officer (CRO)
- Detailed Description: DOLGO is an AI-powered maritime expertise platform that is available on Apple and Android devices. DOLGO's solution is simple but revolutionary. Our AI platform works like ChatGPT for maritime businesses such as shipyards, shipping lines, and manufacturers, but with crucial differences: it provides ownership of expertise to the experts, so they are incentivized when their know-how is reused, it's private and secure, and most importantly, continuously learns from your very own intergenerational workforce and builds a digital IP of expertise.
- How it Works: Here's how it works:
- Direct Knowledge Retention: Workers share expertise directly into the platform, creating a living libraryof skills that doesn't walk out the door when experienced engineers retire.
- Implicit Knowledge Capture: Engineers can call colleagues through the platform to troubleshoot issueswhile the AI learns on the job, capturing solutions for future use.
- Incentivized Sharing: Like Spotify, workers earn bonuses each time their knowledge is accessed,rewarding expertise and encouraging participation.
- The Result - Companies retain critical skills, new engineers accelerate faster and veterans leave a lasting legacy.
- Solution: DOLGO is not generic AI or traditional training software. It is a human centered experience centered around:
- Anthropology – is the holistic, scientific study of humanity, encompassing human biology, culture, language, and evolution across all time periods and geographical locations.
- Ontologies – is the branch of philosophy studying the nature of being, existence, and reality, specifically what entities exist and how they are categorized.
- Epistemology is the branch of philosophy focused on nature, origin, scope, and limits of human knowledge.
- Artificial Intelligence – Uses LLM’s in a combination of Traditional and Generative AI.
- Working with DOLGO happens in three phases
- Phase one: Assesses and Align
- We begin with a focused expertise assessment to understand where critical knowledge lives, what is at risk, and where operational exposure is highest - without disrupting day-to-day work or pulling crews off the floor.
- Phase two: Capture and Guide
- Expertise is deployed across your workforce and continuously strengthened through use and a human-in-the-loop sign-off process. As new situations arise, experience compounds rather than disappears, fortifying your operation as people transition and systems evolve. Be among the first to shape the system.
- Phase three: Deploy and Fortify
- Expertise is deployed across your workforce and continuously strengthened through use and a human-in-the-loop sign-off process. As new situations arise, experience compounds rather than disappears, fortifying your operation as people transition and systems evolve. Be among the first to shape the system.
- Partners:
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
- University of South Florida (USF)
- Florida Institute of Oceanography (FIO)
- Seaworthy Collective
- St. Pete Innovation District
- TMA BlueTech
- And more……
