Gybe Digital LLC · Massachusetts
We build precision performance tools for sailors and outdoor athletes — turning raw GPS data into the kind of feedback a coach gives. Every metric is measured, graded, and explained, so you train against numbers instead of guesswork. Built by people who race.
Our Products
Each app we build is rooted in real experience on the water — designed to make you faster, smarter, and more consistent.
AI-powered sailing performance coach. Track sessions, analyze VMG, grade your tacks, and get personalised coaching from Claude AI — all from your iPhone.
Visit Tacktiq.com →High-frequency GPS logging records your full track — position, speed over ground, and heading sampled continuously. Every leg and maneuver is captured, so nothing is lost to memory after you come off the water.
Velocity Made Good is computed upwind and downwind against the wind axis, showing exactly how efficiently you're converting boatspeed into progress toward the mark — not just how fast you're going in a straight line.
Each maneuver is automatically detected and scored on entry and exit speed and the distance lost through the turn. Vague feel becomes a repeatable number you can actually train against.
Claude AI reviews each session and returns specific, plain-language feedback on what to fix next — reading your data the way a coach would look over your shoulder, then pointing at the one thing that matters most.
Sessions are stored and compared, so you can see whether a change to technique or setup actually made you faster. Trends replace guesswork, and improvement becomes something you can measure week to week.
Everything runs from the phone in your pocket — no instruments, mounts, or external sensors to buy. Start a session, sail, and review a full performance breakdown the moment you stop.
How We Work
We don't build generic apps. Every product we ship comes from genuine expertise in the domain — and obsessive attention to craft.
We build for sports we actually compete in. That's how we know which metrics change a result — and which are just numbers that look impressive on a screen.
AI coaching isn't a bolt-on feature. It's designed in from the first commit, so analysis and feedback are part of the core data model — not a chatbot stapled to the side.
Phone GPS is noisy. We filter, smooth, and validate the signal so the VMG, speeds, and maneuver scores you see are numbers you can make real decisions on.
Your performance data is yours. We don't sell it, share it, or show ads against it. The apps are funded by subscriptions — so our incentives stay aligned with yours.
We're specialists, not generalists. Going deep on one domain lets us model it properly instead of shipping a shallow tracker that works for everything and excels at nothing.
Shipping is the start, not the finish. We sail with every release, take feedback from real racers, and push updates continuously as the analysis gets sharper.
About
Gybe Digital LLC is an independent mobile studio based in Boston, Massachusetts. We make performance apps for people who take their sport seriously — and who want their training backed by data, not just feel.
The studio sits at the intersection of 25 years of competitive sailing and a career in software engineering. That combination matters: we know which numbers actually change a race result, and we know how to compute them accurately from the noisy GPS signal a phone produces on the water.
Every product starts as a tool we needed ourselves. We sail with it, find what's missing, and iterate until the analysis is trustworthy enough to make decisions on. Nothing ships until we'd stake our own results on it.
Our first product, Tacktiq, is the performance coach we always wished existed on the water — and the standard for everything we build next.
FAQ
The things people ask most before getting on the water with Tacktiq.
Contact
For press inquiries, partnership opportunities, or feedback on our products — we'd love to hear from you.
We're a small studio and we read every email. Expect a real response from a real person.