The form builder and the built-in controlled document editor can have their draft written for you by Nauticare AI. There is no separate builder panel: the assistant lives in the Nauticare AI chat, in its Edit mode.
When it is offered
Edit mode is only offered on content you are currently allowed to change:
- On a form template, while you are editing a draft version — open the draft and click Edit. The template page is desktop-only.
- On a controlled document that uses the built-in editor, while you are editing a draft version. Documents that hold an uploaded file have no editable content for it to write.
Published and in-review versions never offer it, and Management Viewer accounts never get it. The vessel profile wizard uses the same Edit mode — see Building a Vessel Profile with Nauticare AI.
Opening the chat
When you click Edit, the Nauticare AI chat opens by itself in Edit mode. A chip above the message box names what it is working on, such as Form template · Engine Room Checklist or Controlled document · Safety Manual. If you close the chat, it stays closed for the rest of that edit; the Nauticare AI button in the header opens it again in Edit mode.
The Ask / Edit switch above the message box moves between editing your draft and the ordinary Nauticare AI chat for questions. Switching back to Edit returns you to the same editing conversation.
Using it
Describe what you want in plain language — a kind of form, a procedure, a section you want added — and send it. Messages are up to 300 characters. While it works, the draft area shows a building placeholder; the result then appears in the builder or editor exactly as if you had typed it, and the reply carries a one-line summary of what changed. On a phone, View changes closes the chat so you can see the draft.
Keep going in the same conversation: ask for a field to be added, removed or renamed, or for a section to be reworded. It sees your draft as it currently stands, unsaved edits included, and aims to change only what you ask for.
To build the draft from an existing document instead, use the upload button beside the message box. Accepted files are PDFs, PNG and JPEG images, plain text and Markdown, and Word documents in .docx format; form templates also accept Excel spreadsheets. The uploaded content replaces the current draft, which you can undo (see below).
The assistant changes the version's fields or content only. A new name it suggests or reports for the template or document is never applied; to rename one, use its Details tab.
Very large drafts are beyond it: it declines to rework a form of more than a few hundred fields or a document longer than roughly 15–20 pages, and suggests editing by hand or splitting it up.
When it asks you something
For a broad request — "write a safety manual", "create a defect report" — the assistant may reply with a few questions instead of a draft. Each appears as a card with a set of answers to pick from. Picking an answer on every card sends your answers automatically. Every card also offers Other, write below: if you pick it on any card, type your own answer and click Send answers. Typing an ordinary message instead moves the conversation on and dismisses the cards.
Where it gets regulatory content
When a form or procedure has to meet a regulation, the assistant looks the requirement up rather than relying on memory, in this order:
- Nauticare's regulations library — the maritime regulations Nauticare keeps on file for the assistants, including the text of attached PDFs.
- Official websites only — when the library has nothing on the point, or the latest amendment matters, it searches the web limited to official regulator, flag-registry and legal-text sites: the IMO, the ILO, the Paris and Tokyo MoUs, EUR-Lex and EMSA, UK government and legislation sites, the Red Ensign Group, the US eCFR and Coast Guard, and the flag registries of the Cayman Islands, the Isle of Man, Bermuda, Gibraltar, the Marshall Islands, Malta, the Bahamas and Liberia. Blogs, consultancies and training providers are ignored.
- Its own general knowledge — only as a last resort, and the reply says so.
When it relies on a web source, the reply names the instrument and the clause and links to the official page; it never invents a regulation name, number or clause. In a controlled document it cites only instruments it actually looked up in the same conversation; otherwise it writes the requirement without a citation and tells you.
Requirements depend on the yacht's flag, commercial or private registration, length and gross tonnage, so the assistant first reads these from your fleet's active yachts. With one yacht it assumes that yacht and says so; with several it asks which yacht the form or document is for, or whether it applies fleet-wide. It asks you only for particulars missing from the yacht's details.
Undoing a change
The most recent reply that changed your draft shows Undo this change. It rolls the draft back to how it was when you sent that message, and the chat notes Change undone. Only the latest such change can be undone this way.
Nothing is saved until you press Save
The assistant writes into the draft; it does not save it. The draft is marked as changed exactly as if you had edited it by hand, and it is stored only when you press Save. Cancelling out of edit mode or navigating away discards what the assistant wrote, with the usual unsaved-changes prompt first. On a controlled document, Save is disabled while the assistant is still working (Save in the unsaved-changes prompt waits for it instead), and the chat is paused while the save runs.
The conversation belongs to the editing session. Pressing Save or Cancel, switching to another version or tab, or navigating away ends it and closes the Edit chat; the next time you edit, you start with a fresh conversation. A reply that arrives after you have left edit mode is not applied.
The monthly AI limit
The assistant draws on your company's monthly AI limit, the same allowance shared by every AI feature in Nauticare. Once the company has reached it, the chat shows AI is unavailable — your company has reached its monthly AI limit. Contact info@nauticare.io to raise it. Retrying does not help; the allowance renews at 00:00 UTC on the first of the next month.