SmartSurf turns GPS tracking into safety intelligence: paired rider-and-board location, live environmental context from Senlay, school workflows, and graduated escalation. Before a session becomes a search.
Riders and boards disappear from visual control every day. A stopped rider far offshore, a board drifting on the current, a dropping wind at sunset — and nobody on shore knows what's actually happening until it's a rescue.
The buyer isn't only the rider. It's the school responsible for many riders at once — and they have no operational picture of risk.
When a board separates from a rider, a single GPS point can't tell you which one you're looking at.
A stop means nothing without wind, current, tide and drift. Generic trackers and forecasts don't connect them.
There's no graduated path from “is this rider okay?” to a station alert to local escalation.
Models that reason about the real world are only as good as the environmental data behind them. SmartSurf is a focused, fundable beachhead for exactly that capability.
Water-sports schools have an urgent, repeated safety problem and a clear willingness to adopt.
Integrated 4G+GPS modules and $15/10-year IoT connectivity make a viable BOM possible today.
Real session telemetry becomes proprietary labels for false-alert reduction and sport-specific risk.
Three revenue lines: one-time hardware, consumer subscription, and school SaaS — each reinforcing the safety data underneath.
Enough to fund the first production run, prove the school workflow with beta pilots, and reach investor-ready traction — SmartSurf-first.
Senlay can be funded as a physical-world AI infrastructure asset — but only when a specific Senlay-fit opportunity (AI infra, grants, sensor/data partners) appears. SmartSurf revenue and pilots come first.
Viktor is a kitesurfing instructor with 10+ years on the water who saw the missing safety infrastructure from the water and from shore — then built every prototype himself. Domain judgment is the moat; AI multiplies execution across firmware, research, product, and operations.
Pre-seed, SmartSurf-first, with a prepared physical-world AI option in Senlay. Let's talk.