Sidonia

Sidonia is building the national operating system for American ports. We unify vessel tracking, real-time data sharing, AI-powered forecasting, and automated replanning into one intelligent platform — replacing the fragmented, manual systems that have kept US ports ranked in the bottom 25 percent of global efficiency. Sidonia gives operators one portal, one source of truth, and the most powerful decision engine the maritime industry has ever seen. American ports will be the most efficient in the world.

America's ports are the foundation of its economy — and they’re losing ground fast. The Port of Los Angeles, the Port of Long Beach, and the Port of New York and New Jersey together process the majority of American trade. Yet top US ports rank in the bottom 25 percent of efficient ports globally. Meanwhile, top international ports have deployed AI-powered coordination, real-time data sharing, and predictive replanning at scale. American ports are still running on legacy software. When a vessel arrives late, a berth becomes unavailable, or weather disrupts a schedule, a human operator has to manually synthesize all the fragmented information and replan simultaneously. Every hour taken is revenue lost and emissions wasted. No single platform currently unifies the solution needed. This is why we've built Sidonia. But before scaling to major ports, we built from the ground up. Matthew, a Yale junior who grew up on Catalina Island, watched harbor operations fail up close. Early talks with the harbormaster and assistant harbormaster at Avalon, one of the busiest and most unique recreational harbors in the nation, shaped our first prototype: an automatic VHF transcriber capturing simultaneous communication across all four channels live. Nicodemus, a computer science and economics double major from Long Beach, CA, built the technology and ran the first live tests against radio traffic from the Port of Long Beach. Marcus, an Ethics, Politics, and Economics major from Boston used his startup and private equity experience, to build the client outreach playbook that's landed us 20+ discovery calls in two weeks with demos scheduled for potential customers. Harbors from the west coast to the east coast confirmed our theory — no existing software adequately allows for live berth tracking or optimization to play the “chess game” of matching the right boat to the right mooring most efficiently. We’re building it. We’ve also connected with a 40+ year maritime veteran who validated our product. She has already connected us to the Ports of NY/NJ and Connecticut, and is opening doors to Miami, Houston, Los Angeles, Long Beach, Coast Guard officials and regulatory experts. Sidonia scales across three tiers. The first serves the more than 7,000 private marinas and yacht clubs that experience invisible leakage costs that average to 8 percent of their potential revenue. We close that gap with an AI-powered financial management tool that generates immediate ROI. The second tier brings public harbors the full operational platform: financial management, VHF transcription, live berth tracking, an optimized reservation system, and the most powerful forecasting capability. The first two tiers set the groundwork for what Sidonia is ultimately built for. American ports will have their first nationally connected vessel tracking network; live data harmonization; AI-supported active forecasting; real-time automated replanning; and long-term economic and environmental projection that moves port authorities beyond quarterly thinking and into the next decade. America built this nation on its ports. Two hundred and fifty years later, it is time to make them the best in the world. Sidonia is how.