I'm Jed Dawson. I started in this industry driving trucks at my family's company. I've spent the years since building software for the waste management industry: first eMobile, then a half-decade at Routeware. Now I'm building Klau, a teammate for roll-off haulers, and Strata, an operations platform already running a hauler with a landfill, three transfer stations, and about 100 trucks.
I plan and curate the work during working hours. A fleet of AI coding agents does most of the coding, around the clock. My job is to confirm, send back, and refine until the result matches the spec.
A different kind of weekly post. My son turned 13, and I wrote about the entrepreneurs I grew up around and the principles I hope he picks up.
The week went into a project built on Klau that is already running part of a real hauling operation. I am keeping it quiet for now, and looking for haulers who want to adopt a system as it is built.
For years I filled out a forced-ranking spreadsheet called Org Alignment. The people were good. The structure was built to extract, and it is why I build the way I do now.
