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Mike Benas

Revert — Bunker Price Intelligence

A platform that puts global bunker prices in one place: spot indications across regions and ports, day-ahead forecasts, historical charts, price alerts and a natural-language assistant — built from 15+ years of shipping operations experience.

Revert home dashboard with regional bunker price indices

Key Skills & Domains

Product Design
Full-Stack Development
Bunker Markets
Price Forecasting
Data Visualisation
AI Assistant
Shipping Operations

Why Revert

Bunkers are one of the largest cost items on any voyage, yet the people making stemming decisions often work from scattered sources: broker emails, supplier quotes and paid indices spread across platforms. Revert grew out of that daily friction. The idea is simple — one place to see where prices stand, where they are heading, and what the spread looks like between the ports you are actually choosing between.

What it does

The home screen breaks the world into bunkering regions. Drilling into a region gives a port-by-port table of spot indications across the main fuel grades — HSFO 380 cSt and 180 cSt, VLSFO 0.5%, ULSFO 0.1%, MGO and LSMGO — each with a one-day forecast so a rising or softening market is visible at a glance.

Port-level spot price table for North America with day-ahead forecasts

Every port opens into a historical view, charting each grade over a selected date range — useful for timing a stem or sanity-checking a quote against how the port has actually been trading.

Historical bunker price chart for Houston across fuel grades

Alongside the tables and charts sit price differentials across ports and products, configurable price alerts, and a channel for suppliers to publish their own prices into the platform.

Ask Revert

The newest addition is Ask Revert, a natural-language interface to the same data. Instead of navigating tables, you ask the question the way you would ask a colleague — and get a direct answer with the numbers behind it.

Ask Revert answering a query about the VLSFO spread between Gibraltar and Piraeus

The project is in active development, with the assistant currently in beta. It reflects the thread running through my work: operational shipping knowledge, applied through software.