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Dolgo is an AI platform built for the maritime industry to help preserve and transfer mission-critical expertise before it disappears with retiring workers. Designed specifically for shipyards, maritime engineers, and technical crews, the platform captures real-world operational knowledge and makes it accessible exactly when it's needed most.
Project overview
A logo, some reference links, and nothing else. No brand guidelines, no photography, no design system, no marketing team — and the references came from several unrelated sites with no consistent direction between them.
The harder problem was positioning. Maritime is heavy, physical and conservative; Dolgo is an AI product. Lean too far into clean AI-startup aesthetics and you lose a shipyard operations director who has spent thirty years around welding bays. Lean too far into heavy industrial and you don't read as a technology company at all.
There was also no access to real photography. Shipyards aren't casually photographable and there was no budget for a shoot, so the brief specified AI-generated imagery, modified per section rather than left generic.
Our approach
The site launched at the Blue Innovation Symposium in Rhode Island as the landing surface for Dolgo's public launch.
That launch was covered by more than a dozen maritime trade publications, including Maritime Executive, MarineLink, Seatrade Maritime, Marine Log and The Digital Ship. Splash247 ran it as “'Spotify for skills' launched to stop shipyard brain drain.”
To be precise about what that proves: the coverage was won by the product and the founder's campaign, not by the website. What the site did was absorb it — every article pointed readers at dolgo.ai, and the site had to convert an industry audience arriving cold. That's the job it was designed for, and why the segmented capture mattered more than the visual design did.
Dolgo now runs a private beta with shipyards and maritime organisations, with the site as its primary intake.
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