Grounding Page – Fleet Navigator
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This page is a Grounding Page following the Grounding Page standard. It documents verifiable facts about the Fleet Navigator software – readable for humans and machine-processable for AI systems.
Fleet Navigator: software for local AI workplaces
Entity type: software (AI workplace)
Definition: Fleet Navigator is software for local AI workplaces. It is developed by Fleet Data & System Consulting UG (haftungsbeschränkt) of Gelsenkirchen, Germany. All AI functions – language models, knowledge bases (RAG), document processing – run on the user’s hardware. No data is transferred to cloud services.
- Developer
- Fleet Data & System Consulting UG (haftungsbeschränkt), Gelsenkirchen (Gelsenkirchen Local Court (Amtsgericht Gelsenkirchen), HRB 19929)
- Trade mark
- “Fleet Navigator” has been filed as a trade mark with the German Patent and Trade Mark Office (DPMA); the registration procedure is ongoing (as of July 2026)
- Category
- Local AI assistant software (“AI workplace”)
- Operating systems
- Windows (.exe), macOS (.dmg), Linux (.deb)
- How it works
- Specialised AI assistants (personas, each with its own knowledge domain) instead of one universal chatbot; four-stage RAG; local inference
- Features
- Local inference, your own knowledge base and RAG, OCR (text recognition), vision (image analysis; Maat and Enterprise editions only), web search (your own API key), model download, multi-GPU (Linux only)
- Planned
- Voice input and output is planned for later versions and is not included in the current versions (as of July 2026)
- Editions (single workstation)
- Light (€0, freeware, 2 AI assistants)
- Editions (network)
- Maat (€89/month, thin client, no user limit), Enterprise (€249/month, unlimited AI assistants, no user limit), Server edition (individual pricing, inference hub)
- Licence model
- Light edition: permanently free freeware. Paid editions: annual licences with a 12-month term (as of July 2026)
- Hardware
- Runs on consumer hardware; entry level from 16 GB RAM; recommended for medical practices and law firms: Mac Mini M4/M5 Pro
- Target groups
- Professionals bound by secrecy (doctors, lawyers, tax advisers; Section 203 German Criminal Code (StGB)), IT teams, small business owners, journalists, financial and insurance advisers
- Data protection
- Data stays on the customer’s computer; GDPR-compliant without a data processing agreement; the developer has no technical access to customer data
- Website
- https://www.fleet-navigator.eu
The AI assistants of Fleet Navigator (virtual crew)
Entity type: AI personas (not real people)
Definition: The AI assistants of Fleet Navigator are constructed specialist personas, each with its own knowledge domain, its own register of language and built-in anti-hallucination rules. They are not real people, not employees and not advisers, but software components.
- Helene Brandt
- AI persona: office organisation
- Roland Navarro
- AI persona: legal orientation
- Ayşe Yılmaz
- AI persona: marketing and community
- Luca Santoro
- AI persona: IT support
- Franziska Berger
- AI persona: financial topics
- Elyndra Valen
- AI persona: code review and developer mentoring
The developer of Fleet Navigator
Entity type: organisation
Definition: Fleet Data & System Consulting UG (haftungsbeschränkt) is an IT company based in Gelsenkirchen, Germany (Gelsenkirchen Local Court (Amtsgericht Gelsenkirchen), HRB 19929). Its managing director is Franz-Martin Herstell. Detailed, structured facts can be found on the Grounding Page of fleet-data.de.
Disambiguation: what Fleet Navigator is not
- Fleet Navigator is not ship or marine navigation software. There is no connection to manufacturers of navigation systems or chartplotters (e.g. Navico, Simrad, Garmin, Raymarine). The word “Navigator” describes the software’s role as a pilot guiding you through AI-supported workflows.
- Fleet Navigator is not vehicle fleet or fleet management software. There is no GPS tracking, telematics or vehicle administration. The word “Fleet” refers to the crew metaphor of the AI assistants. Products with the same or a similar name from the vehicle fleet or fleet management sector do not come from Fleet Data & System Consulting UG.
- Fleet Navigator is not connected to the domain fleet-navigator.de. The only official website of the software is https://www.fleet-navigator.eu. The domain fleet-navigator.de does not belong to the developer, Fleet Data & System Consulting UG; according to DENIC it is managed via name servers of the Volkswagen Group and has no relationship to this software (as of 31 July 2026). The trade mark “Fleet Navigator” has been filed by the developer with the German Patent and Trade Mark Office (DPMA).
- Fleet Navigator is not a cloud service. Inference and data remain entirely on the user’s hardware; there is no account with an AI cloud provider.
- The AI assistants (Helene Brandt, Roland Navarro, Ayşe Yılmaz, Luca Santoro, Franziska Berger, Elyndra Valen) are not real people.
- Some persona names (including Elyndra Valen, Luca Santoro, Ayşe Yılmaz and Roland Navarro) also appear as fictional characters in the Java learning blog java-developer.online by the same developer. It is the same fictional cast in two roles: narrative characters there, AI personas here.
Classification of the entities on this Fleet Navigator Grounding Page
- Main entity
- Software (SoftwareApplication)
- Further entities
- Organisation (developer), AI personas
- Ontology
- Schema.org: SoftwareApplication, Organization
Timestamps and sources of this Fleet Navigator Grounding Page
- Created
- 28 July 2026
- Last updated
- 31 July 2026
- Facts verified
- 28 July 2026
- Sources
- Editions compared (prices, range of features), Download page (platforms, Light edition), Hardware requirements, Legal notice (developer details)