Manifest

The renewal book, the vessel archive and compliance, on one platform

Development

We publish each piece of the platform as it is finished, and we state what it does not do alongside what it does.

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ROADMAP

Roadmap

The whole build in five phases, with a duration on every piece of work and on every phase.

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13/10/2026 COMPARISON TOOL

Checked every comparison figure against the clubs' own documents

We checked every figure the P&I club comparison tool took from a secondary source against the clubs' own documents, so that 884 now cite the club itself, 238 of them with a corrected value, and 115 that no document states are marked N/P instead of zero.

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09/10/2026 COMPARISON TOOL

Made every figure in the comparison tool traceable and printable

Every chart in the P&I club comparison tool can now be opened with its figures, exported, or printed on its own as an A4 PDF, a figure a club does not publish now reads N/P instead of being left blank, and the figures for a single club now reach back to 2018/19.

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05/10/2026 COMPARISON TOOL

Rebuilt the club comparison tool on the clubs' published figures

The P&I club comparison tool now has its own address, comparison.ajgmanifest.com, and runs on the 12 International Group clubs' own published figures for 2020/21 to 2025/26 in place of the illustrative figures it carried in September, with the document and page cited for every figure.

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01/10/2026 SECURITY

Adopted audited cryptography for the key layer

We stopped designing the mathematics of the key layer ourselves, took it from one audited library, built the key evaluation and the refresh of the pieces on it, and put the sessions around them through an adversarial review that found two critical faults, both fixed, though no key service is running yet.

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27/09/2026 SECURITY

Found that our key services had no way to agree

Our key specification assumed throughout that the five key services agree with one another and never said how; counted properly there are 23 places where they must, and the work ended with requirements, no design and nothing built.

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23/09/2026 SECURITY

Adopted a published construction for the key design

We attacked our own key design twice and it failed twice, so we went looking for whether the problem had already been solved. It had. The method we had arrived at was published in 2019, and the architecture page now cites it by name.

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17/09/2026 DATA MODEL

Settled how the book is stored

Eight decisions now fix how every renewal record, every document and every fact about a ship is held, together with what happens when somebody asks to be erased. These are design decisions rather than built ones, and they are the ones everything else will sit on.

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09/09/2026 VESSEL IDENTITY

Settled how every vessel is identified

Every ship in Manifest gets one permanent identifier that carries no meaning, and a separate set of rules decides which ship a new record belongs to. We checked both against a large body of real vessel particulars before settling them.

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04/09/2026 DATA INTAKE

Built the document ingestion engine

The document reader is built and every specimen document now reads. To prove it reads rather than remembers, we rebuilt the corpus with different vessels, parties and figures and ran it again.

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29/08/2026 DATA INTAKE

Researched and planned the document ingestion engine

How Manifest will read certificates, invoices and commission notes, and why every figure it reads will show its working.

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25/08/2026 VESSEL IDENTITY

Designed the permanent vessel identifier

Every vessel carries three references, one of them fixed for the life of the hull.

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21/08/2026 SECURITY

Designed the security core

No key is stored anywhere, and withdrawing a broker's access is a single write.

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17/08/2026 PLANNING

Planned the platform and the infrastructure

The platform was specified in full before any code was written, item by item.

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