A-GOS
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The autonomous procurement agent for maritime. We feed the entire fleet, with no middleman and no extra employee.
Mission
Maritime procurement is still run by hand, trapped in emails, spreadsheets, and legacy planned maintenance systems. A-GOS puts the buying power and transparency back on the owner's side: an autonomous agent that runs the full cycle:plan, source, buy, verify, and settle - around the clock. Our mission is to eliminate supply chain opacity, drastically reduce marine food waste, and elevate crew wellbeing through data-driven procurement. We start with the category owners feel every day - crew food - and expand across the vessel's procurement on the same mandate. A-GOS is proudly backed by Antler in Dubai.
Problem
Our CEO spent 20 years in maritime industry , including a decade as Captain. Most fleets manage purchasing across vessels using fragmented manual processes. The inefficiency is staggering: three-way invoice matching fails up to 60-70% of the time, budget visibility only arrives at quarter-end, and shore-side superintendents lose up to 40% of their week to administrative tasks that software should handle.
Nowhere is this more damaging than in victualling. Owners spend billions annually feeding their crews, but the supply chain is a black box. Up to 24% of the budget is lost to hidden middleman markups, and another 20% goes straight into the waste due to blind forecasting and spoilage. This manual nightmare has a severe ESG and human cost: poor planning leads to nutritionally deficient meals, directly impacting crew wellbeing, increasing fatigue, and driving up medical diversions. The owner pays for this twice - once in lost margin, and again in waste and human error.
Solution
A-GOS replaces the outdated catering company model with an autonomous procurement agent working for the owner 24/7. By deploying a seamless agent-to-agent architecture between the vessel and the shore, A-GOS runs the full cycle on autopilot.
The platform autonomously generates 100% MLC-compliant, culturally tailored, and nutritionally balanced menus, directly improving crew health and wellbeing. It then sources from trusted suppliers, bids directly, and auto-reconciles every invoice against the budget.
The owner sets the rules; A-GOS does the buying and verifies every order before the money leaves the vessel. No middleman margin, no extra office staff, and up to 30% reduction in food waste. The owner regains total ESG and financial transparency, buying direct with every dollar visible before it is spent.
Market Opportunity
Market size
Shipowners already spend billions annually on crew provisioning. We charge a transparent 5% take-rate on that spend, plus a $400 per vessel monthly SaaS subscription. Food alone is a served market of about $1.05B today, growing to roughly $4.25B by Year 5 as the agent moves into adjacent categories.
Target customers
Shipowners, managers, and operators, starting with merchant, offshore, and fishing fleets. We specifically target the segment legacy catering companies do not serve well, where operational decisions do not have to clear a massive corporate committee. We sell to the owner, not the caterer and not the supplier.
Go-to-Market Strategy
Founder-led and network-driven. Drawing on 20 years of direct maritime relationships, we sign owners directly with no paid sales machine.
Traction
Three vessels live and paying today, with two more onboarding from a second shipping company . Early adopters have handed over their entire fleets on day one.
An active, direct pipeline of more than 100 vessels across five shipping companies.
Accelerated and backed by Antler MENA, validating our autonomous procurement model and providing strong institutional support for our regional and global rollout.
Business Model
Two engines today. Engine one is a $400 per vessel monthly subscription, signed and live. Engine two is a 5% take-rate on provisioning spend (the autonomous purchasing layer), with first GMV expected within 100 days. A third engine extends the same 5% into adjacent categories over time, with no new sales motion. The model lands cheap and expands without a ceiling: revenue scales with spend rather than seats, and the proprietary realized-price and consumption data compounds with every vessel.
Financials
Per vessel, the economics are highly capital-efficient: about $9,000 in annual revenue, a 60% gross margin, roughly $2,500 to acquire a vessel through fleet agreements, payback in about six months, and an LTV to CAC of around 5.0x. Because we acquire fleets rather than single vessels, the capital goes a long way.
Team
Sasha Pyenov AFNI , Co-Founder and CEO. Dubai, UAE. 20 years in maritime industry , including a decade as Captain. Founded a maritime supply company, a crewing agency, and a cloud kitchen before turning to software to fix the broken supply chain he lived inside.
Maxim Radchenko, Co-Founder and CTO. IT entrepreneur and SaaS architect, with over 22 years of experience leading engineering teams across 350+ enterprise and mobile projects, scaling applications to over 150,000 active users.
Contact Information
Co-Founder and CEO: Sasha Pyenov
Company: A-GOS
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