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.
Institutional validation.
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 naval-architecture firm behind a long succession of successful offshore racing programs. Farr Design has adopted the SailrScience platform — SailEdge for per-boat performance work and FleetEdge for fleet-scale analytics — across their consulting workflow. More case studies will be published as the engagement progresses.
The independence-disclosure posture above applies. The data ecosystem described below — ORC certificate data, ORC Scorer race results, and SailEdge physics — is separate from strategic-partner relationships 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 and crew residual — never the assignment itself. A strategic partner has no access to the assignment process, no input to the clustering model, and no visibility into per-boat outputs before publication.
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 — not from any input a strategic partner provides. The Performance Potential Index, crew-residual figures, and archetype-fit scores all descend from the same independent physics + results pipeline 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?
Institutional credibility. A strategic design partnership indicates that a respected naval-architecture or industry organization has chosen to associate its name with FleetEdge. That is a reputational signal for professional audiences — not a statement about any particular boat, archetype, 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 partner input reaches any of them.
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.
Media & Analytics
The archetype framework provides a shared vocabulary for discussing fleet composition, design trends, and competitive patterns. Archetype data and dimensional analysis are available for editorial and broadcast use — a new analytical lens for covering ORC racing.
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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