Marine spatial planning, evidence-first

Turn a survey CSV into a defensible siting decision before the day ends.

Upload bathymetry, salinity, temperature — or drop a Lowrance / Humminbird / XTF file and we’ll pull the environment for you. Score against 67+ species, stack regulatory overlays, project to 2100 under CMIP6, and export a QGIS-native permit package. Every tolerance envelope traces to a citation.

67+ species supported
5 data overlay packs
CMIP6 climate projections
Your data recalibrates the model
Galway Bay - Native oyster
RCP 8.5 · 2050
Mean suitability
0.64
High-suit cells
38%
Permit-ready
22%
Built for
Aquaculture leaseholders
Restoration NGOs
State DNRs
Offshore wind developers
Blue carbon programmes

Everything you need to ship a permit-grade siting decision

The engine, the overlays, the value-add analyses, and the deliverables that regulators expect - in one workflow.

67+ species, native and invasive

Every tolerance envelope traces to a peer-reviewed source, not a guess — oysters, cold-water and warm-water corals, sandeels, maerl, and geoduck are backed by published presence/absence and physiology studies cited inline in your report. Freshwater mussels and 4 invasive bivalves extend the same rigor to restoration and risk-forecasting work. Coverage spans conservation-priority and commercially harvested species across polar to tropical ranges, so one platform handles siting decisions most tools would need three subscriptions for. New species and regions ship every quarter, prioritized by customer request.

Five data overlay packs

Permitting baselines, aquaculture-specific layers, CMIP6 climate projections, near-real-time ocean feeds (buoys, OISST, HAB alerts), and economic / ecosystem-service valuation.

Climate projections to 2100

Score against RCP 4.5/8.5 and SSP 2-4.5/5-8.5 at 2030, 2050, 2080, and 2100 horizons. Compare scenarios side by side.

Conflict-of-use detection

Stack any overlays - MPAs, navigation channels, military closures, cable corridors - and get hard/soft/advisory conflict tagging per cell.

Substrate classifier from your survey files

Drop in a Lowrance .sl2/.sl3, Humminbird .dat, or Triton .xtf side-scan recording. Get a 5-class substrate map (mud / sand / gravel / cobble / bedrock) aligned to the Folk-5 scheme regulators already recognise. Pure-R readers, no Python bindings, no GPL contamination.

Compliance-ready reports

NEPA / EIA / SEA boilerplate auto-generated. Methodology citations, conflict summary, economic valuation, mitigation recommendations - one click.

Monte-Carlo sensitivity

Quantify uncertainty in your scoring. Per-cell p5/p50/p95 quantiles, one-at-a-time sensitivity index per input.

Calibrate tolerances to your own site

Upload a CSV of your ground-truthed presence / absence records and the model refits its Bayesian tolerance envelopes to match. Optional bootstrap power analysis reports the 95% CI on every fitted parameter and tells you how many more surveys you'd need to halve the uncertainty.

Multi-stakeholder scenarios

Weighted composite scoring across aquaculture / fisheries / conservation / tourism preferences. Map Pareto trade-offs.

Tamper-evident audit trail

Hash-chained JSONL log of every run, overlay loaded, and report exported. Designed for regulator submission and FOIA-ready archival.

From survey file to siting decision in minutes

One pipeline. Browser, desktop, or QGIS plugin - same engine.

01

Upload your survey

CSV with lat/lon and environment vars — or drop a raw sonar file. .sl2, .sl3, .xtf, .dat all decode natively; .all, .kmall, .s7k via Python backends.

02

Pick species + overlays

Choose from 67+ species. Toggle regulatory packs, climate scenarios, and value-add analyses for your tier.

03

Calibrate (optional)

Upload a CSV of your own ground-truthed presence / absence records. The Bayesian posterior refits to match your site, not just the peer-reviewed default.

04

Run the engine

AHP-weighted scoring with documented per-species tolerances and peer-reviewed methodology. Every run audit-logged.

05

Export deliverables

Interactive heatmap in-browser, GeoTIFF for QGIS, PDF compliance report, scored CSV, .qgz project file.

Priced to graduate with your workload

Buy credits when you're just trying it out. Move up to a subscription when it becomes part of how you work. No free tier — the R packages on CRAN are our free science-community entry.

Pay-per-use
from $99credit pack · no subscription
One-off runs, methodology-testing, academic pilots.
  • Credits, buy any pack, never expire
  • Suitability scoring, upload your own env CSV
  • Pack 1 regulatory overlays
  • CSV + GeoTIFF output
  • 25k cells / run · single user
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Focus
$129per month · 1 species · 3 seats
Solo consultants, small NGO teams, single-species labs.
  • 1–3 species, +$99/mo per extra
  • Env auto-fetch (CMEMS + WOA + GEBCO)
  • Packs 1 + 5 (regulatory + ecosystem service)
  • PDF compliance reports + QGIS deliverables
  • 100k cells / run · project history
Choose Focus
Enterprise
from $4,500per month · 25 seats · negotiated
Federal agencies, tier-1 aquaculture, Big-6 offshore wind.
  • Pack 4 real-time feeds + everything in Pro
  • Full custom envelope suite + all power analyses
  • Managed CMEMS · white-label reports
  • SSO + SLA · dedicated onboarding
  • 10M cells / run · 20% credit discount
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Services
$250–$800per hour · or fixed-scope quote
Custom species packs, EIA defence, training, on-site.
  • Custom species pack development
  • EIA / SEA defence + expert witness
  • Bespoke tolerance envelope development
  • Regulatory pack for new jurisdictions
  • Training + certification workshops
Discuss scope

Prices in USD. Focus and Pro have 17% annual pre-pay discounts. oystermapR is GPL-3 on CRAN — free forever. The other species packs and every SaaS feature above are behind the tiers. Academic / government / NGO discounts on request · ask.

Built on peer-reviewed methodology

Every coefficient cites its source. Every model is reproducible. Every deliverable carries the methodology block regulators expect.

12

Canonical citations underpinning the scoring + valuation pipeline, surfaced in every report.

261k

Ground-truth substrate records (BOEM Marine Cadastre + EMODnet Seabed Habitats + UK MEDIN) feeding the substrate classifier.

67+

Species tolerance profiles, each sourced from peer-reviewed papers cited inline in every deliverable.

GDPR

EU data residency option, customer-owned survey files, no third-party tracking.

Stop fighting QGIS. Start shipping permit packages.

No subscription required. Buy a credit pack and score your first survey in under five minutes.

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