Focus on the findings. We send the quote, write the report, deliver it, invoice, and collect payment.
What takes an afternoon on the boat used to take days at a desk. Marlin Survey turns your findings into the quote, the report, the invoice, and the payment — automatically. Record findings by hand, voice, or keyboard, with photos, on the dock or with no signal at all.
Send a quote from a template, itemized, same day the client asks. They accept online. The accepted quote becomes the survey, so the client and vessel details carry over and nothing gets typed twice.
Per-field photos. Findings attached to the section they belong to. Notes by hand, dictation, or keyboard, whatever your hands are doing at the time. Works with no signal too: photos and findings save on the device and sync once you're back in range. Built for gloves, salt spray, and a flashlight in one hand.
The write-up generates from your findings: sections, photos, and ratings turn into client-ready language, in the format your client expects. Nothing to compose from a blank page after the survey's done.
Invoice generates from the completed survey and sends to the client. Paid and outstanding, at a glance.
Card or ACH, paid from the invoice link. No separate step to chase it down.
Build your report with AI assistance, straight from the findings you capture in the field.
Gelcoat is original, sound at the bow with light spider-cracking along the chine. Three small blisters noted at port quarter, below waterline. No evidence of impact damage. Boot stripe legible, antifouling renewed within 12 months.
“Ask about blistering severity, gelcoat repair specs, or anything else on this section…”
Build the checklist once for pre-purchase, insurance, damage, or condition & value, then reuse it on every hull. Sections, fields, and required findings match the way you actually work.
The whole survey in one scrollable column, system by system. No tabs, no modals, no hunting for the page you were on when the owner walked up.
Shoot from your phone, drop straight onto the finding. Every photo stays attached to the finding it documents. No folder of 400 untitled JPEGs to sort later.
A small reference card, the kind you’d clip behind the back cover of a field guide.
per template, nesting supported
questions appear and disappear based on prior answers
every field, every time. No save button to remember.
auto-assigned by context, drag from “unassigned”
syncs on reconnect
branded, share-able, indexed by finding
client-ready language, not a blank page
locked at rest and in transit
one-click to promote per-survey additions
speak into a field, it lands as text in the right place
client inquiries become bookings, two-way sync
client email and attachments live with the file
drafted on completion, sent on delivery, tracked to paid
paid · outstanding · monthly P&L, no spreadsheet
clients, vessels, surveys, invoices, one search box
equipment catalog tied to the hull
drive quotes and invoices automatically
Pause anytime in the off season. No charge while paused, pick back up when you're surveying again.
No per-seat, no per-survey. Bring the whole crew.
Same plan, paid once a year. Works out to $25/mo.
Switch to monthly at renewal, any time.
Quoting, recording, reporting, invoicing, payment: one system, built for marine surveyors. Be first in when it opens.
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