SINGAPORE — 22 April 2026 — Groundup.ai today launched the Global Machine Benchmark™ (GMB) at Singapore Maritime Week. The industry’s first universal standard for making global machinery measurable, comparable, and transparent. Integrated into Groundup.ai’s enhanced GINA AI v2 platform, the GMB™ closes a gap that has existed in industrial operations for decades.
Finance has credit ratings. Buildings have safety certifications. Until now, machinery has had nothing.
While operators across maritime and industrial sectors have accumulated vast amounts of machine data, they have had no consistent ground truth to benchmark against, no way to know how their fleet performs relative to the rest of the world. The GMB™ changes this.
From Isolated Maintenance to Continuous Intelligence
The Global Machine BenchmarkTM goes beyond anomaly detection. By ingesting multi-modal data and normalising behaviour across different operating environments, GINA AI v2 breaks machine health into four key components to deliver a single, balanced score. One that enables operators to benchmark their fleet against global standards and competitors for the first time.
“In high-stakes environments like naval defence, failure is not an option. Yet most industrial operators have no clear way to know how their machines are actually performing relative to the rest of the world,” said Leon Lim, CEO and Founder of Groundup.ai.
“The GMB™ is the shared brain for the fleet. It’s not just a dashboard. It’s a standard that shows leaders exactly where they stand and what it takes to close the gap.”
Hard ROI: Turning Percentages into Profit
The GMB™ quantifies what operational excellence is worth, and what underperformance costs:
- The ROI of a 4% Gain: Moving a vessel’s health score up by just four percentage points has the potential to recover 352 operational hours and USD220,000 in value, per vessel, per year.
- Proven Naval Reliability: In live deployment, naval defence teams achieved 22 consecutive months of zero unplanned downtime, shifting from reactive firefighting to consistent, predictable operations.
Benchmark, Diagnose, Decide, Act, and Improve
The GMB™ isn’t just a measurement tool. It’s a continuous improvement engine. Groundup.ai’s proprietary system runs in a closed loop: Benchmark, Diagnose, Decide, Act, and Improve. Every machine is continuously assessed, acted on, and improved over time.
Unlike traditional solutions scoped to a single vessel, GINA AI v2 operates across entire global fleets, and as more assets connect, the data flywheel compounds. The system grows more accurate, the benchmarks sharper, and the prescriptions more precise.
“This is a shift from isolated maintenance to a global standard of excellence,” said Alex Wong, COO and Co-Founder. “We are giving maritime leaders the power to own their ground truth; to prioritise what matters most and compete on a level of transparency this industry has never had before.”
Groundup.ai invites Singapore Maritime Week attendees to visit the team at the PIER71™ Pavilion, Booth P07, to see the Global Machine Benchmark™ in action.
