About UNIT2
The autonomous intelligence layer for industrial organizations.
UNIT2 builds sovereign agentic AI infrastructure for sectors where operations involve heavy engineering, strict regulations, and documentation-intensive processes — shipyards, OEMs, defense contractors, and offshore energy companies.
Who is UNIT2
UNIT2 deploys a secure, sandboxed and siloed parallel intelligence system inside a company's infrastructure. Within this controlled environment a collaborative swarm of AI agents mirrors and executes operational workflows alongside existing teams. This architecture allows organizations to transition from human-centric operational bottlenecks to autonomous, high-velocity execution — without disrupting current systems or exposing sensitive operational data.
The platform functions as a digital twin of an organization. Rather than replacing existing processes, it mirrors them in parallel and gradually automates operational tasks while maintaining full human oversight. This approach enables companies to adopt agentic AI safely and incrementally without interrupting ongoing operations.
The system architecture separates strategic reasoning from operational execution. The strategic layer functions as the command bridge — where planning, analysis, and decision support occur. The execution layer operates as the operational deck — where AI agents carry out structured tasks such as engineering documentation, procurement coordination, certification workflows, data processing, and system integrations.
Born from real-world engineering.
UNIT2 is a spin-off of the RC Dock Group of Companies, a recognized leader in the design and engineering of complex autonomous maritime platforms. RC Dock has extensive experience developing unmanned surface vessels, remote operations infrastructure, and advanced control systems for offshore and defense environments.
The group is also specialized in integrating complex sensor systems for subsea data acquisition, remote inspection, and large-scale maritime data processing.
This engineering background forms the foundation of UNIT2. The team combines hands-on maritime engineering experience with advanced AI architectures to build systems that operate reliably in real-world industrial environments where safety, reliability, and regulatory compliance are critical.
Verifiable AI data governance.
UNIT2 operates in close alignment with OceanVault, a decentralized data storage platform utilizing blockchain technologies to ensure that AI training data remains auditable, immutable, and provable.
OceanVault enables organizations to maintain verifiable records of datasets used to train autonomous and AI-driven systems, supporting compliance with emerging regulatory frameworks such as the EU AI Act for complex autonomous technologies.
What UNIT2 does.
Built for organizations managing complex regulatory frameworks, certification requirements, and multi-layer approval processes.
Tender & Bid Automation
AI agents analyze tender documentation, generate technical responses, create compliance matrices, coordinate supplier inputs, verify certification requirements, and assemble complete bid packages — dramatically reducing preparation time.
Certification & Compliance
Structure certification documentation, manage compliance requirements, maintain traceable records, and coordinate approval workflows across the lifecycle of projects involving classification societies, regulators, and customers.
Engineering Workflow Automation
Automate documentation-heavy engineering processes, coordinate across teams, and execute structured tasks with full audit trail and human oversight at every decision point.
Procurement Orchestration
Coordinate supplier quotations, manage RFQ processes, track deliverables, and integrate procurement data across complex multi-stakeholder projects.
Fleet & Operational Intelligence
Integration with digital twins of vessels, infrastructure, and industrial equipment. Real-time operational monitoring and decision support across distributed assets.
Regulatory Compliance Management
Structured AI lifecycle documentation and risk management aligned with ISO-based management systems, EU AI Act requirements, and industry-specific regulatory frameworks.
Our unique differentiator
Sovereign AI Infrastructure.
What truly differentiates UNIT2 from most agentic AI companies is that we are not only a software platform. UNIT2 is built on top of sovereign compute infrastructure, secure data architecture, and real-world industrial engineering expertise.
Most AI companies rely entirely on public cloud providers and external model APIs. Their solutions depend on token-based services where data must be transmitted to third-party systems. This creates limitations around data sovereignty, cost predictability, regulatory compliance, and operational security.
UNIT2 operates differently.
Through our dedicated compute and storage infrastructure, including GPU clusters and distributed data systems, we deploy private AI environments where models, data, and agent systems operate entirely within controlled infrastructure. Organizations can run open-weight large language models locally, eliminating reliance on external API providers and avoiding unpredictable token-based costs.
This architecture provides fully sandboxed and siloed AI environments where sensitive engineering data, operational processes, and proprietary knowledge remain inside secure infrastructure. For industries such as shipbuilding, offshore energy, defense, and industrial manufacturing, this capability is critical.
Our infrastructure also enables the creation of secure organizational knowledge systems. Engineering documentation, certification records, operational procedures, and historical project data can be stored locally and used to power advanced retrieval and reasoning capabilities for AI agents — creating a private operational intelligence layer that continuously learns from an organization's own data.
The window for adaptation is short.
We understand the short- and long-term impact that agentic AI will have on every industry. The reality is straightforward: organizations that fail to transition toward AI-driven operational models will inevitably be outperformed by those that do.
Businesses that continue to rely solely on traditional, human-centric workflows risk losing competitiveness, efficiency, and ultimately market share. In our view, the window for meaningful adaptation is short. Over the coming 20 months many industries will experience a decisive shift toward agentic AI-driven operations.
Our purpose is to help organizations navigate this transition safely and successfully.
UNIT2 empowers organizations and professionals to deploy unified ecosystems of AI agents that think strategically and execute operational work autonomously. The platform transforms cognitive overload, fragmented workflows, and documentation-heavy processes into coordinated, high-velocity productivity.
Rather than replacing human expertise, UNIT2 augments it. Human teams focus on strategic decision-making while AI agents handle structured execution, data analysis, documentation, and coordination across complex operational processes.
Our principles.
Focus on Context, Not Code
The quality of your organization's output is no longer tied to rigid scripts or fragile plugins. With UNIT2, your primary investment is in Data Context. By defining clear parameters and organizing your local data environment, you empower the swarm to execute with total precision.
First-Principles Thinking
We deeply understand how an organization operates, how information flows through the business, and how complex decisions are made. From this foundation UNIT2 builds AI systems that replicate and enhance real operational processes rather than forcing companies into rigid software structures.
Human-in-the-Loop
AI agents execute operational tasks and coordinate workflows, while human experts retain authority over strategic decisions, approvals, and mission-critical operations. Transparency, modularity, and human control are non-negotiable.
Operational Immune System
We implement a proprietary feedback-shield that protects agentic workflows from organizational noise, allowing the system to maintain peak performance without external interference.
Unified operational intelligence.
As AI agents become increasingly capable of reasoning, planning, and coordinating tasks across systems, organizations will move from isolated automation tools toward integrated ecosystems of autonomous digital operators.
Between 2026 and 2030 UNIT2 will focus on expanding agent ecosystems for industrial organizations — deeper integration with engineering software, operational data systems, digital twins, and procurement environments used across maritime, offshore energy, defense, and manufacturing sectors.
Looking further ahead, networks of specialized AI units will increasingly operate across large-scale industrial and societal challenges such as infrastructure optimization, climate modeling, complex logistics coordination, and human wellbeing. UNIT2 positions itself as the secure operational infrastructure that enables these intelligence systems to function reliably within real organizations.
Instead of being overwhelmed by complexity, organizations will collaborate with AI systems that help them reason more clearly, execute more efficiently, and solve complex problems at unprecedented scale.
The founding team.
Deep maritime engineering expertise, artificial intelligence architecture, regulatory knowledge, and commercial execution — built from the intersection of autonomous systems and industrial operations.
Ronald J. Kraft
CEO & Founder
Maritime technologist, AI systems architect, and founder of multiple ventures at the intersection of autonomous systems, distributed compute infrastructure, and secure data ecosystems. Background in marine engineering and dynamic positioning systems with extensive operational experience in offshore robotics, ROV systems, and class-certified unmanned surface vessels. Founder of OceanVault and several autonomous maritime initiatives.
S.K. Kraft
AI Data Engineer, EU Compliance Lead & Co-Founder
Interdisciplinary background combining neuropsychology and computer science. Responsible for the design and integrity of UNIT2's distributed AI data infrastructure and regulatory alignment — including secure data pipelines, GPU-supported processing workflows, and blockchain-anchored validation systems. Oversees alignment with the EU AI Act, data protection standards, and emerging AI governance frameworks.
Jeroen Dam
Lead Sales & Business Development
Leads commercial strategy and business development. NIMA A Sales certified with formal training in strategic sales management, customer psychology, and negotiation. Specializes in translating complex distributed AI architectures into clear business value propositions. Central role in building partnerships with shipyards, offshore operators, OEMs, and industrial organizations with scalable service models and performance-based contracts.