ABOUT US
No one should carry a boat alone.
This is what the company stands for. Not alone does not mean instead of you. We take none of the captain's role away — only part of the load. When we are deciding what to build, and what not to, this is what we hold it against.
WHAT WE DO
Make the boat legible.
A boat is a black box to the people aboard it. But trouble almost always shows up before it breaks — as a small change in sound, in vibration, in voltage. Because nothing fails all at once, the people who go out most often are the least likely to notice.
Our business is to make the boat audible. The watch, and the slow drift in the machinery, should not be left to one person’s attention.
No one should carry a boat alone. Set the load down, and you can go further.
ON OUR NAME
The mind belongs to the ship.
The decisions belong to her captain.
Brainship takes its name from Anne McCaffrey's brain ships — vessels in which an intelligence inhabits the hull, paired with a partner who moves through the world outside it.
In her books, a human mind that could not live in a body was given a ship instead. We are doing the inverse. We are giving a ship to a machine intelligence that has never had a body at all.
So Helva is not a device that operates your boat. Helva is crew that lives in it. The helm stays yours.
WHO IS BEHIND IT
Yuji Yamamoto / Representative Director
About thirty years as a software engineer. For the last eight, independent, working mainly on proof-of-concept development and business development for new ventures. Both the engineering and the running of the company are done by directing a fleet of AI agents. Helva is designed, built and sea-trialed that way. Embedded systems (NVIDIA Jetson), the marine domain. Holder of a Class 1 small-craft operator license.
What we are building is on the Helva AI page; our registry details are on the company page. For press, partnerships or research collaboration, please get in touch.