Partners & Ecosystem
The data sources and technology behind FleetEdge.
Every fleet has a fingerprint.
Twenty-nine countries of ORC and IRC racing — see the fleets FleetEdge covers.
Hidden ShapeThe hidden shape of the fleet.
The kinds of boat that keep appearing when every hull is measured the same way.
The shape of the fleet, before the scoreboard has anything to say.
Strategic design partners.
Strategic partnerships do not influence FleetEdge models, archetype definitions, rankings, or event coverage. FleetEdge remains independent and public-data based. Partner imagery, when used, is labelled as such.
The permanent statement of this principle lives at partners#neutrality-policy and is linked from every partner-branded surface.
Farr Design — strategic design partner
FleetEdge's first strategic design partnership is with Farr Design, the storied yacht design firm behind a long succession of successful racing programs. Farr Design has adopted the SailrScience platform — SailEdge for per-boat performance work and FleetEdge for fleet-scale analytics — to advance their consulting workflow.
Farr Design's client work — certificate consultations and cohort studies — runs on that platform; the partner case study is on sailr.science.
The independence-disclosure posture above applies. The data ecosystem described below — ORC certificate data, ORC Scorer race results, and SailEdge physics — is not shaped by any strategic-partner relationship and remains the foundation of every FleetEdge analysis.
What strategic design partnerships are — and what they are not.
Do strategic design partnerships influence individual boat archetype assignments?
No. Archetype assignments are computed by FleetEdge from certificate parameters and the SailEdge physics applied to them; race results build the evidence behind each assignment — condition fit (how well the design suited the conditions it met) and crew residual (what remains after the boat's evaluated pace is accounted for — negative is faster, in s/nm) — never the assignment itself. A strategic partnership gives no influence over the model, its parameters, or the analytical treatment of any boat. Like other authorized users, a partner may submit boat data for processing through the ordinary product workflow; a boat submitted that way is classified by the same model on the same terms as every other.
Do partnerships shape which fleets, events, or designers FleetEdge analyzes?
No. Event coverage is driven by where ORC and IRC racing happens and where result data is available. Designer representation is whatever the public-data corpus contains — FleetEdge does not weight, reorder, or exclude designer families based on partner relationships. Every designer represented in the ORC and IRC fleets continues to appear in the corpus on the same terms.
Are ranking outputs affected by a partnership?
No. Rankings derive from race results scored under ORC and IRC rules; a partnership has no influence over them. The Performance Potential Index, crew-residual figures, and archetype-fit scores all descend from the same independent physics + results pipeline for every boat, regardless of partnership status.
Is FleetEdge a partner product?
No. FleetEdge is a SailrScience product. Strategic partnerships, when they exist, are marketing/strategic relationships with independent organizations. SailrScience retains full control over the analytical platform, methodology, and editorial posture.
What does a strategic partnership signal?
A strategic design partnership means the partner has adopted FleetEdge in its own consulting work. That is a statement about the partner's use — not about any particular boat, archetype (one of the fleet's eight recurring design types), or result. Partnership-branded pages carry the disclosure above; country, fleet, and event pages deliberately carry no partnership branding — protecting the neutrality of every analytical comparison.
Partnerships do not influence analytical outputs.
Strategic partnerships and endorsements appear on partner-branded surfaces only: the homepage partner strip, this Partners page, and any dedicated partner announcement page. They do not appear on country pages, fleet pages, event pages, archetype pages, rankings, or any analytical comparison surface.
This separation is permanent and audit-checked. It is the reason FleetEdge can host strategic partnerships without compromising the independence of its public analysis. Country, fleet, and event pages carry no partner imagery, no partner language, and no partner-derived emphasis in their narrative structure — by design, by rule, and by audit gate.
Built on three independent streams.
Every FleetEdge analysis stands on the same three independent streams: ORC certificate data, published race results, and SailEdge force-balance physics. No partnership influences how any of them is modeled or analyzed; boat data submitted by a partner enters through the same ordinary workflow open to every authorized user.
How the streams converge is taught once, on How It Works; the full derivation lives on Methodology; and the vocabulary behind every count is defined on Data Definitions.
Working with FleetEdge.
Regatta Organizers
FleetEdge analysis is available for event coverage — fleet previews before racing, archetype-based commentary during events, and post-event dimensional reports. The analysis requires only the fleet's ORC certificate data and race results, both of which are typically available through the event's scoring system.
SailrScience welcomes inquiries from regatta organizers, media outlets, class associations, and analytics platforms interested in incorporating FleetEdge data into their coverage or products. All integration discussions begin with the contact page.
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