Digital Operations for the Caribbean
Track shipments, clear customs, route approvals, manage vendors, and report financials โ across maritime logistics, concrete manufacturing, and infrastructure development. One platform replaces the email chains, WhatsApp threads, and desktop QuickBooks files holding your operation together.
The Operating Reality
Every maritime operator in the Bahamas and across the Caribbean runs into the same walls. The operation works because one person holds it together. That's a ceiling, not a foundation.
Caribbean operators routinely carry receivables at 2-3x industry benchmarks. When collections run on memory instead of systems, cash sits in your clients' accounts instead of yours.
When every payment and every approval routes through the founder's desk regardless of size, small transactions block big ones. The bottleneck is structural, not personal โ and your clients notice the delays.
Multiple businesses, multiple QuickBooks files, no single source of truth. Intercompany balances unclear. Job-level profitability unknown. You find out how the month went at the end of the month.
The Platform
Documents arrive. The platform extracts data, classifies it, routes it to the right workflow, checks compliance, flags discrepancies, and surfaces what needs your decision. Everything else moves without you touching it.
Maritime logistics, concrete manufacturing, residential development. Same platform, different instructions. No additional development per business line.
Port authority adds a health declaration requirement? Update the written instructions. Not code, not a developer, not a 4-week change request. Five minutes.
Workflow intelligence that reads bills of lading, cross-references C44 entries against commercial invoices, flags mismatches, and routes exceptions. No one talks to it. It just works.
How Work Flows
Adoption Model
Your organization adopts AI at its own pace. Each business unit can be at a different stage.
System records and extracts. Your team works normally.
System flags what's missing or stalled. Humans validate.
System drafts documents and assembles packages. Humans approve.
System executes within approved boundaries. Humans set policy.
Why Sea Cay
If you need to route freight through 47 countries and manage compliance in Mandarin, you need global enterprise software. If you need to know exactly when your container clears Nassau customs and who's driving it to the warehouse โ you need Sea Cay.
CargoWise, GoFreight, Descartes โ $50-150K/yr
Dev shop or freelancers โ $150-300K+
Multi-business by architecture
Who This Is For
Vessel calls, crew documentation, C44 entries, Click2Clear filings, cargo manifests. You coordinate between port authority, shipping lines, and customs โ and track it all in email.
Shipment lifecycle from booking to delivery. Bills of lading, commercial invoices, HS classification, vendor coordination, and client billing. Across ocean, air, and ground.
Mix design tracking, batch tickets, delivery confirmation, cost-per-ton analysis. Quality certs linked to jobs. Invoice to QBO without re-keying.
Milestone tracking, draw schedules, permit status, contractor compliance. Multi-entity financials consolidated in one view.
Why Now
Caribbean operators face a convergence of pressures that manual processes can no longer absorb.
Fuel costs up, port fees up, insurance up. The operators who survive are the ones who see their numbers in real time, not at month-end.
Finding experienced customs brokers and operations staff in the Bahamas is getting harder every year. The platform handles the routine so your people handle the exceptions.
Regulatory requirements only increase. Expired credentials, missed filings, and documentation gaps are operational and legal liabilities. Manual tracking doesn't scale.
Major clients already use real-time tracking and digital portals with their other vendors. When you manage their cargo by email, they notice.
Platform Capabilities
Every module serves the same goal: make your operation visible, enforceable, and scalable without adding headcount.
Digital onboarding with compliance document upload, quote requests, shipment and vessel call submission, real-time order tracking, and job history.
Vendor registration, certificate tracking, insurance renewal monitoring, and invoice submission against completed work.
Real-time visibility across all business units. Jobs in flight, bottleneck detection, approval routing with configurable delegation thresholds, proactive alerts.
Auto-extract from bills of lading, C44 entries, commercial invoices, and cargo manifests. Cross-reference documents, flag discrepancies before customs submission.
Bidirectional QuickBooks Online sync. AR aging automation, collection workflow enforcement, anomaly flagging, and weekly financial digest.
ClawMoat open-source security framework. Defined action boundaries: what's autonomous, what needs human approval, what's prohibited. Full audit trail with reasoning chains.
Domain Expertise
This platform was built with direct operational knowledge from inside a Caribbean maritime, concrete, and infrastructure business. We've mapped the workflows, the pain points, and the compliance requirements first-hand.
Every cargo movement carries its own document set, compliance requirements, and customs timeline. A shipment isn't valid until the document chain is complete and internally consistent.
A ship entering port is operationally separate from its cargo. Vessel documentation has hard deadlines tied to port authority requirements. Late or incomplete filings delay berthing.
Every actor in the system, whether importer, exporter, vessel owner, or vendor, carries a persistent compliance profile. Identity in Bahamian customs brokerage is regulated. Credentials expire. The platform tracks validity continuously.
The same architecture handles concrete manufacturing (mix design tracking, cost-per-ton analysis, batch tickets) and infrastructure development (milestone tracking, draw schedules, permit status). Different workflows, same platform.
Bahamas Customs electronic processing. All customs transactions filed through Click2Clear. Every party must hold valid registration.
Standard customs entry document. Data must reconcile with commercial invoice, BOL, and manifest. Discrepancies are the #1 cause of clearance delays.
Business licenses, TIN certificates, bond status, Click2Clear registrations all expire. An expired credential at customs entry is an operational failure.
Bonded cargo needs bond numbers. Offshore operations need boarding logistics. The platform evaluates context and surfaces the correct requirements automatically.
See It Running
This demo shows what the platform delivers: revenue trends, AR aging, intercompany flows, and cost analysis. Built from representative Caribbean maritime and infrastructure operating patterns.
Access requires credentials. Contact us for a demo walkthrough.
Who We Are
Dar and Glen began their careers at Bain & Company โ Dar in the Dallas, Texas office, Glen in Johannesburg, South Africa โ partnering with management teams to streamline operations, eliminate bottlenecks, and build the systems that make scaling possible. That foundation shapes everything Sea Cay builds: real operational rigor, not software demos.
Co-Founder โ Finance & Operations
Started at Bain & Company (Dallas) advising Fortune 500 clients on operational restructuring and GTM strategy โ including Ford's Visteon IPO and the Salt Lake City 2002 Winter Olympics cost containment. Moved to Deutsche Bank M&A in New York, then Lehman Brothers before joining vSpring Capital, a $450M Utah venture capital firm, where he sourced and evaluated investments across SaaS, hardware, and services.
Founded Greener Equity, which became Carta's exclusive 409A valuation provider before being acquired by Econ Partners/Ryan. Built one of the largest business valuation practices in the U.S., completing 1,000+ valuations across maritime, manufacturing, SaaS, logistics, and construction. Fractional CFO experience with Caribbean maritime and infrastructure operators โ direct knowledge of vessel operations, customs brokerage, AR dynamics, and multi-entity structures. Creator of ClawMoat, open-source AI agent security framework.
Co-Founder โ Capital & Strategy
Started at Bain & Company (Johannesburg) before founding the Middle East practice of OC&C Strategy Consultants in Dubai, leading strategy implementation across Oil & Gas, Real Estate, Hospitality, and Retail. Moved into private equity managing global investments on behalf of Oman's sovereign wealth fund at the Oman Investment Authority. Partner at Peninsula Growth Capital since 2008 โ 18 years investing in and building businesses that reshape industries.
Creator of SumoClaw, a production multi-tenant AI agent platform with per-client isolation, persistent memory, and hierarchical coordination โ the technical backbone behind Sea Cay's agent architecture. Also built Kojinsa (competitive intelligence) and TeamSkip (coaching platform for TrainingPeaks). Rare combination: senior finance and strategy background with hands-on AI development capability, translating complex business problems directly into working systems.
AI Engineer & Full-Stack Developer
Production AI engineer specializing in agentic systems and RAG pipelines. Builds multi-agent systems using LangChain, LangGraph, CrewAI, and AutoGen โ the orchestration layer that makes Sea Cay's Tier 2 agent automation work at scale. Designs RAG pipelines with vector databases (Pinecone) to ground LLMs on proprietary operational data.
Full-stack capability across Python/FastAPI/Django backend and React/Next.js frontend, deployed on AWS, Azure, and GCP with Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines. Brings the architectural discipline of relational database design (PostgreSQL) as a deliberate counterweight in the platform's data layer โ the engineer who stress-tests every decision before it ships.
Get Started
Every operator's workflows are different. We start with a discovery call to understand your specific pain points, document flows, and compliance requirements. No pitch deck, no generic demo. We'll walk through your actual operating reality.