Dubai · UAE

AI & automation,
built for the work
that actually runs the business.

Ulysea Group helps operations-heavy businesses deploy AI agents and automation that handle the work nobody wants to do — document triage, process orchestration, compliance tracking, and the long tail of repetitive operational tasks.

Ulysea
Our approach

We don't sell AI.
We solve operational problems that AI happens to be good at.

Most AI projects fail not because the technology doesn't work, but because the operational problem was never properly diagnosed in the first place.

Ulysea Group was founded on a simple principle: operational depth beats technical novelty. Before we propose a tool, we map the workflow. Before we build an agent, we identify the decision it replaces. Before we quote a price, we understand the value it creates.

Our background isn't pure consulting. It's fifteen years inside operations-heavy businesses — maritime fintech, enterprise SaaS, regulated financial services — and active leadership inside an operating maritime software company. We've sat in the meetings where the spreadsheet doesn't reconcile, the certificate has expired, the support queue is on fire, and someone has to fix it before the close of business.

That perspective is what we bring to AI. Not "what can the model do?" — but "what is your team actually doing today, and where does it hurt?"

What we do

Three practices,
one operational philosophy.

We work across three connected areas. Most engagements start in one and expand into the others as trust and traction build.

— 01
AI & Automation Consulting

Designing, building, and deploying AI agents and automation systems for operations-heavy businesses.

  • AI opportunity assessments
  • Agent design & deployment
  • Workflow automation (Claude, MCP, Power Automate)
  • Governance frameworks & KPIs
  • Ongoing operations & tuning
— 02
Strategic Advisory

Senior counsel on operations, customer experience, and organizational scaling for fintech, SaaS, and maritime businesses.

  • Operations & process redesign
  • Customer experience strategy
  • Distributed team scaling
  • CRM & support technology selection
  • Executive & board advisory
— 03
Strategic Investments

Selective investment and partnership activity in maritime, chartering, and adjacent operational technology ventures.

  • Maritime & chartering
  • Operational technology
  • Strategic partnerships
  • Co-investment & advisory equity
How we work

A staged engagement model
that de-risks AI for both sides.

We don't ask clients to commit to a year of AI transformation on day one. We start small, prove value, then scale together.

i
Phase One
Opportunity
Assessment
We embed with your team, map the workflows, identify five to ten automation candidates, score them by impact and effort, and deliver a prioritized roadmap.
2–3 weeks Fixed price
ii
Phase Two
Pilot
Build
We build one agent solving one concrete problem from the assessment — measurable success metrics defined upfront, working system at the end.
6–8 weeks Fixed price
iii
Phase Three
Operations
& Expansion
Ongoing monitoring, optimization, and roll-out of additional agents. A retainer relationship, sized to your needs.
Monthly retainer Scoped together
About

Senior operations experience,
now applied to AI delivery.

Antonios Mihalakis, DBA

Founder & Managing Director, Ulysea Group

Antonios is a senior operations leader with fifteen-plus years across maritime fintech, enterprise SaaS, and global financial services. He spent six years leading customer operations at MarTrust (Marcura Group) — the world's largest specialist maritime payments platform, serving 10,000+ clients and processing over $2B in annual transaction volume.

He is also Co-Founder and Chief Commercial Officer of Maritime IT Solutions, a maritime SaaS company building ShipBook, CrewBook, and DiveCo — fleet, crew, and certificate management software used by ship managers and commercial diving operators globally, certified to ISO/IEC 27001, 27017, and 27018 standards.

Through Ulysea Group, he combines that operational and product depth with hands-on AI capability — building Claude-based agent systems, MCP integrations, and workflow automation for the kind of repetitive, high-volume work that defines real businesses.

DBA & MBA SBS Swiss Business School / UCAM Spain
Lean Six Sigma Black Belt IMC Institute, UAE
Multilingual Greek · English · French · Spanish
15+ Years Experience MarTrust · deVere · Primerica · Scotiabank
UAE Licensed Entity
Ulysea Group
Dubai-registered consultancy with explicit AI activity codes — full VAT compliance and contract-ready for enterprise procurement.
DED 7020.99 · 6201.02 · 6200.00 · 7020.00
Operating Maritime SaaS
Co-Founder, Maritime IT Solutions
ShipBook, CrewBook, DiveCo — fleet and crew management software shipping to global ship managers and commercial diving operators. ISO/IEC 27001, 27017, and 27018 certified.
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Strategic Investments

Selectively backing
operationally serious ventures.

Beyond consulting, Ulysea Group makes selective investments and forms strategic partnerships in maritime, chartering, and operational technology — the spaces where our operational expertise compounds with capital and judgment.

We are not a fund. We work case-by-case with founders and operators we trust, typically alongside our advisory engagement.

i.

Maritime & Chartering

Vessel partnerships, chartering ventures, and maritime-services investments where domain depth matters.

ii.

Operational Technology

Software, automation, and AI ventures targeting operations-heavy industries.

iii.

Advisory Equity

Co-investment alongside advisory engagements, where alignment of incentives creates better outcomes.

iv.

Strategic Partnerships

Formal commercial partnerships in payments, technology, and adjacent maritime services.

Start a conversation

If you have an operational problem
worth solving properly — let's talk.

Most useful first conversations take forty-five minutes. No pitch, no slides — just a working session to understand whether there's a real engagement worth scoping.

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