About · Origin

Built from the Water Up

ZS Offshore began with a single question: what happens when you apply the same rigor to offshore fishing that you would to any serious operating environment?

The Question

A Different Kind of Fishing Operation

Most offshore operations run on instinct, word of mouth, and hard-won experience passed across the dock. That knowledge is real — and irreplaceable. But it's also fragile. It lives in memory, scattered across logbooks, and shared in conversations that vanish the moment they end.

We asked: what if you could capture that intelligence, structure it, and augment it with the kind of analytical tools that every other serious operating environment takes for granted? And what if you could then deploy the full stack on the water in real time?

The answer became Sedna — an AI-powered intelligence platform that turns decades of offshore experience into a living, queryable system. And the first vessel that runs it: F/V Zejula.

F/V Zejula at dusk offshore
The Mantra
Use technology to expedite the ascension of Zejula and her crew into one of the most effective boats on the water, while empowering a coalition of like-minded, performance-obsessed captains.

That single sentence drives every decision — what Sedna builds, how F/V Zejula is instrumented, and how the intelligence gets shared. The platform doesn't replace offshore experience. It encodes it, augments it, and makes sure every trip pushes the system forward.

Every trip produces data. Every data point refines the models. Every refined model produces better pre-trip plans, sharper on-water recommendations, and richer post-trip analysis. It's a closed loop — the Intelligence Loop — and it never stops turning.

The Vessel

F/V Zejula

A 2025 Freeman 28 catamaran. Twin Yamaha 300hp outboards. Fully instrumented, Starlink-connected, and running Sedna in real time from Charlestown, Rhode Island. Zejula isn't just a fishing boat — she's the deployment platform for everything the intelligence system produces.

Every sensor, every display, every communication link was selected to support a single mission: get the intelligence from Sedna to the helm in real time, and get the catch data from the water back into the system before the boat hits the dock.

28'
Freeman Cat
2×300
Yamaha HP
45+
Knot Cruise
160nm
Offshore Range
24/7
Starlink Connected