As the yachting world faces its perfect storm, Wired tells the story of Giovanni Palamà — the sailor-engineer behind SailADV and D.gree — where maritime heritage meets Silicon Valley intelligence.
The yachting industry is sailing through a perfect storm — a convergence of new owners, rising complexity, and the arrival of AI at sea. It’s no coincidence that Wired chose to tell this story through Giovanni Palamà, the sailor-engineer behind SailADV and the mind from which D.gree was born. Few embody this transformation better: a life spent between engines, sensors, and shipyards, turning real-world experience into data — and data into intelligence.
Because the future of yachting won’t come from code alone. It will come from people of the sea who learn to speak the language of algorithms, and from engineers who learn to listen like captains.
That’s what happens when Mediterranean precision meets Silicon Valley’s velocity — when the discipline of sea trials merges with design thinking and AI edge computing.
D.gree stands exactly there: born at sea, designed in Palo Alto — building the new intelligence of yachting.
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“We have built a monitoring system that can be likened to a Holter device… it remains installed onboard and is able to collect data to understand how the vessel is actually used.” (Giovanni Palamà)
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