MB92 Links Voly's Pinpoint Works to Its Client Portal

What did MB92 and Voly just announce?

MB92 Group and Voly have connected Pinpoint Works, Voly's worklist platform, directly to The Bridge, MB92's client portal, so a refit worklist built once reaches the yard's quoting team without re-entry. The two companies confirmed the integration this week as a joint feature of both platforms.

Pinpoint Works is the tool most refit and new-build crews already use to log tasks through a season: a leaking hatch, a generator overhaul, a paint touch-up, each logged with photos and notes as it comes up. Until now, getting that list in front of a yard for quoting meant exporting it, or a project manager retyping it into the yard's own system by hand. The new integration removes that step for jobs going to MB92's Barcelona and La Ciotat yards: worklists built by crew or an owner's representative in Pinpoint Works transfer straight into The Bridge, where MB92's quoting team can see the same detail the crew logged. That list typically follows a boat through an entire season before anyone outside the crew sees it in full, updated by whoever spots the next problem, from a bosun checking a bilge to a rotating engineer clearing a fault code.

The two systems talk to each other through APIs, MB92 and Voly said, so only the fields needed for quoting cross over rather than a full account handover. Ian Flanagan, Voly's chief executive, said: "Yachts have always built their refit worklists on Pinpoint Works and now sharing that information directly with The Bridge means quicker and more accurate quoting." Rob Papworth, chief executive of MB92 La Ciotat, called it "a natural step for us", pointing to Voly's position as the industry's leading worklist software provider.

Why should an owner care about a software integration?

A refit quote is only as good as the worklist behind it, and every re-typing or summarising step between the crew's notes and the yard's estimate is a place a job gets missed, mis-scoped or priced against guesswork. Closing that gap means fewer change orders discovered mid-refit and a quote an owner can hold the yard to.

Refit budgets rarely blow out because of one big surprise. They blow out through dozens of small ones: a task the crew flagged in June that never made it into the September quote, a job description that lost detail somewhere between a spreadsheet and a shipwright's estimate. Owners and management companies end up reconciling two versions of the same worklist, one from the boat and one from the yard, often only once the vessel is already hauled out and the clock on yard time is running.

Flanagan's case is that removing the manual hand-off removes that reconciliation problem at the source. Because setup happens per yacht and on request rather than automatically, an owner or captain still has to ask for it, so the practical advice is straightforward: any vessel booked into MB92 that already runs Pinpoint Works should have its management company request the link before the worklist goes in for quoting, not after. That is a small ask on paper, but it is the kind of ask a captain juggling provisioning, itinerary planning and a dozen other refit-season tasks can easily let slip, particularly on a first visit to a yard the boat has not used before.

Has The Bridge actually worked for owners before this?

The Bridge is not new: MB92 launched it in March 2024 after two years of in-house development, and the company says more than 480 refit and new-build projects have run through it since. Clients who used it early on credited it with putting contract and budget data in one place, which is the same problem this integration is aimed at solving one step earlier.

MB92 built The Bridge itself rather than buying an off-the-shelf platform, drawing on three decades of its own project management practice under Ruben Carmona, the group's director of I.T. and digitalisation. The portal gives owners, captains and management companies real-time visibility of project progress and budget, lets them request and accept quotations inside the same system, centralises project communications and notifications, and handles warranty claims registration, replacing what used to be a scatter of emails and spreadsheets. Warranty claims in particular used to depend on a paperwork trail that could run a full season long, since a job finished in a spring refit might not surface as a fault until the following summer; digitising that registration is one of the more mundane but persistent frictions MB92 says it set out to remove.

Dean Smith, a director at Hampshire Marine, said after using the portal on a project that "all the contract data was in one place for us to review and the logging of accepted works versus quoted/pending allowed better evaluation of the project workload and budget performance." The captain of a 45-metre Feadship, unnamed in MB92's own case study, said The Bridge "shows great promise, offering centralised communication and efficiency for critical project components." Those accounts predate the Pinpoint Works link and describe the portal on its own; they are the closest thing to independent evidence that MB92's side of this integration already does what it claims.

Is this a one-off, or the start of something bigger?

Voly says it now runs software behind more than 2,000 vessels and roughly 80 per cent of yachts over 80 metres, scale it built partly by acquiring Pinpoint Works in 2023 and crew-employment specialist Oceanskies in August 2026. Flanagan said the MB92 integration is a first step, not the whole plan, with an 80-person technology team working on further links based on client feedback.

The MB92 deal fits a pattern rather than standing alone. Voly has spent the past three years buying and integrating the separate tools a refit or a new-build touches, worklists, crew employment records, accounting, rather than building one system that tries to do everything from scratch. That approach only pays off for an owner if the yards on the other end actually plug in, which is what makes MB92, one of the largest independent refit groups with yards in Barcelona and La Ciotat, a meaningful partner rather than a small pilot. Oceanskies specialises in crew payroll, contracts and compliance, the kind of employment paperwork that, like a refit worklist, has traditionally sat in its own separate system, disconnected from the accounting and project tools a management company runs everything else through.

It also lands the same year MB92 has been making bigger, harder-to-miss moves of its own: locking in its Barcelona lease to 2050 behind a EUR 40m dry dock commitment in August, even as it lost its tender for the Golfe-Juan yard the month before. An owner reading both stories together gets a fairer picture than either alone: MB92 is investing hard in the yards it controls and in the software layer around them, while losing ground on at least one site it does not. Neither company has said whether the same worklist-to-portal model will extend to other yards MB92 does not own, which is the detail that will decide whether this stays a two-party arrangement or becomes closer to an industry standard.