# Dayjob

Aiolum story: https://aiolum.com/story/dayjob/ · added 2026-11-05 · updated 2026-11-06

**In short.** Dayjob (AI scheduling agent for skip-hire and dumpster trucks, United Kingdom): US$496K annual recurring revenue, April 2026. Evidence grade D: reported, not verified. Team: 2 co-founders; 5 people listed by Y Combinator in November 2026. Launched August 2025; still running.

AI scheduling agent for skip-hire and dumpster trucks · United Kingdom · AI-native · team of 2 to 10 · still running · group: Operations, logistics and trades

- Outcome: US$496K annual recurring revenue, April 2026 (evidence grade of the headline number: D; headline in US dollars: 496000)
- Launch: August 2025; months from launch to the outcome: 8
- Team: 2 co-founders; 5 people listed by Y Combinator in November 2026
- Outside funding: Y Combinator, Spring 2026 batch; the UK company also filed share allotments in September and December 2025 (amounts not read)
- Main factor: Years inside one industry: the founders say they sold software to waste operators from 2022 and watched planners in depots before they built the AI scheduler
- Meters, 1 to 4: evidence strength 1, copyable pattern 1, capital needed 2
- Tags: AI-native, Small team, Funded, Running, B2B, Logistics

Links:

- Visit dayjob.ai: https://www.dayjob.ai/

**The product.** Software for the transport planner of a skip-hire or dumpster company. It reads the day's jobs from the company's existing job system (an ERP) and the trucks' positions from telematics, builds the next day's routes for every driver, and re-plans during the day when jobs or drivers change. Prices are not published; sales start with a call.

**Why it worked.** The founders say that planners in waste depots drag jobs onto trucks by hand every morning, that the plan is wrong within hours, and that companies cannot hire planners fast enough. They had sold an ERP to waste operators since 2022 and learned that large operators would not replace their ERP, so the new product sits on top of the ERP instead of replacing it. In the April 2026 launch post the founders said that annual recurring revenue was US$496K.

Evidence grades: A = disclosed by a public company, a filing or a payment processor, or verified by one; B = two or more independent reports agree, or a journalist confirmed it; C = a founder claim that no one else verified; D = reported, not verified: one founder claim or a third-party estimate with no second source; E = no revenue figure found, so the headline is a non-money fact and the other facts carry their own grades; calc = computed on this page from graded facts.

## Summary

Dayjob sells an AI scheduling agent, a program that makes planning decisions by itself instead of only showing data to a person, to companies that run short-haul trucks, so far mainly skip-hire and dumpster fleets in waste management. It connects to the company's ERP (enterprise resource planning software, the system where jobs are booked and invoiced) and to telematics (the GPS and vehicle data that trucks send), assigns jobs to drivers for the next day and re-plans during the day. The founders wrote that it builds a full fleet schedule in about 60 seconds, where a human planner needs most of the morning.

George Postlethwaite (chief executive) and Fred Fooks (chief technology officer) met at Oxford. Their UK company, Gaea Technology Ltd, was registered on 27 July 2022. According to their Y Combinator profile, they first sold ERP and inventory software to the waste industry from October 2022 and made US$150K in revenue with it, pivoted to Dayjob in January 2025 and started selling it in August 2025. In their launch post of 23 April 2026 they said that annual recurring revenue (ARR, the yearly value of current subscriptions) was US$496K. Their profile answer states US$653K of ARR "in seven months" after August 2025, a figure with no date of its own. Y Combinator lists 5 people.

Both revenue figures are founder statements on Y Combinator pages, and they do not fit one timeline, so the headline is grade D: reported, not verified. The UK company register confirms that the company exists and has filed only micro-company accounts, which show no revenue. The page also lists failed logistics software companies that promised to optimise trucks and routes.

## Pricing

Dayjob prices in November 2026: not published (the company's pages offer a call)

| Plan | Per month, billed yearly (US$) | Per month, billed monthly (US$) | Limit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Custom contract | not published | not published | sold after a sales call |

Neither the UK nor the US home page shows a price or a plan. Both pages offer "Book a call", a phone number and a contact form. The pages show a calculator of extra yearly revenue for the customer, not a price for Dayjob. No reviewer page with prices was found.

## How much revenue does Dayjob make? The numbers, graded

A two-founder UK company that said in April 2026 it had US$496K of annual recurring revenue, eight months after it started selling; every money figure is a founder statement

| Fact | Value | Grade | Note | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Annual recurring revenue, April 2026 | US$496K | D | Founders' launch post on Y Combinator, created 23 April 2026: "We're now at $496K ARR, growing fast". No second source. | [2] |
| Annual recurring revenue in the profile answer | US$653K, "in seven months" | D | Y Combinator company profile, read 5 November 2026: "We started selling the product in August 2025. ARR has grown to $653K in seven months". The answer has no date of its own. Seven months after August 2025 is March 2026, which is earlier than the lower April figure, so the two statements do not fit one timeline. | [1] |
| Monthly value of the April 2026 figure | about US$41,333 a month | calc | Calculated: US$496,000 divided by 12. | [2] |
| Revenue of the earlier ERP product | US$150K in total | D | Y Combinator profile: "We started in October 2022, building ERP and inventory software for the waste industry, generating $150K in revenue." Period and dates not given. | [1] |
| Start of sales of Dayjob | August 2025 | C | Y Combinator profile. The pivot from the ERP to Dayjob was in January 2025. | [1, 2] |
| Time from start of sales to the April 2026 figure | 8 months | calc | Calculated: August 2025 to April 2026. | [1, 2] |
| Company behind the product | Gaea Technology Ltd, company number 14260186, incorporated 27 July 2022, active | A | Companies House register. The privacy policy says Dayjob "is a product operated by Gaea Technology Ltd". Nature of business: 62012, business and domestic software development. | [6, 5] |
| Accounts filed | micro-company accounts to 31 July 2024 and to 30 September 2025 | A | Companies House filing history. Micro-company accounts do not show revenue, so they cannot confirm the ARR figures. | [7] |
| Share allotments | on 18 September 2025 and 9 December 2025 | A | Companies House filing history (form SH01, statement of capital after an allotment of shares). The amounts and buyers were not read. | [7] |
| Team | 2 co-founders; team size 5 | C | Y Combinator profile, read 5 November 2026, lists George Postlethwaite (Founder/CEO) and Fred Fooks (Founder/CTO) and a team size of 5. The company site also lists a lead engineer. | [1, 3] |
| Accelerator | Y Combinator, Spring 2026 batch, London | C | Y Combinator profile. Founded 2025 according to the profile, which counts from the Dayjob pivot. | [1] |
| Results the company reports | 5 to 10% better fleet efficiency, 50% more customer time slots hit | C | Founders' launch post. The post also says one customer had an £800K revenue increase in its first year. Customer names are not given. | [2] |
| ERP integrations | Weighsoft, PurGo and Wastelogics | C | Company FAQ. For other ERPs the company sets up "a bespoke report". | [3] |
| Markets | UK fleets live; US launch in 2026 | C | Launch post: "We're live with fleets in the UK today, and currently launching in the US." A US page speaks of dumpsters instead of skips. | [2, 4] |
| Prices | not published | C | UK and US home pages, read 5 November 2026. | [3, 4] |

How to read this table: a grade D value is a single founder statement that no second source confirms. A grade C value is a statement by the company on its own pages or on its Y Combinator profile. A grade A value is read from the UK public company register (Companies House). A "calc" value was computed on this page from the rows named in its note.

## When did Dayjob launch, and how did it grow? Timeline

From ERP software for waste operators in 2022 to an AI scheduler sold in the UK and launched in the US in 2026. Each entry carries its grade.

- **27 July 2022** (grade A [6]): Gaea Technology Ltd is registered at Companies House in London.
- **October 2022** (grade D [1]): The founders start building ERP and inventory software for waste operators. They say it later made US$150K in revenue.
- **January 2025** (grade C [1, 2]): Pivot to Dayjob: an AI scheduler that works on top of existing ERPs instead of replacing them.
- **15 April 2025** (grade C [5]): Date of the Dayjob privacy policy, which names Gaea Technology Ltd as the operator.
- **August 2025** (grade C [1]): Dayjob starts selling the product.
- **September and December 2025** (grade A [7]): The company files two rounds of share allotments at Companies House.
- **23 April 2026** (grade D [2]): Launch post on Y Combinator (Spring 2026 batch): the founders said ARR was US$496K and that three more agents would launch later in the year.
- **November 2026** (grade C [1, 3, 4, 6]): The company is active in the register; Y Combinator lists it as active with 5 people; the site has UK and US pages and a jobs board.

## Why did Dayjob work?

### Years inside one industry

The founders sold an ERP to waste operators from 2022. They say they spent mornings in depots from 6 a.m., rode in trucks and sat next to planners. The new product came from what they saw there: planners, not missing features, were the problem.

### Sit on top of the ERP, do not replace it

Their first lesson, in their own words, was that "large operators wouldn't migrate ERPs regardless of product quality". Dayjob reads jobs from the ERP the customer already has (Weighsoft, PurGo, Wastelogics, or a custom report), so a customer does not have to change systems to try it.

### Sell the result in the customer's money

The pages sell extra jobs per truck, not software features. A calculator on the home page multiplies jobs per day and the average skip price into extra revenue per year for the customer. The founders say one customer gained £800K of revenue in its first year.

### Start with the hardest niche

The founders chose waste management because they call it one of the hardest planning environments: many changes during the day, strict rules and fixed time windows. Their plan, as they wrote it, is to move from there to other industrial logistics.

## How it was built

These details come from the company's pages and the founders' Y Combinator texts. They are grade C. No source names an AI model provider.

- Inputs: jobs from the customer's ERP and vehicle data from telematics. Output: next-day routes for each driver and in-day re-planning when jobs or drivers change.
- The FAQ says the system "rapidly analyses millions of potential scheduling options within seconds" and is "continually trained with new data". It does not say whether this is a large language model, an optimisation solver or both.
- Constraints named by the founders: vehicle capacity, weight limits, site access windows, driver hours, live traffic and regulatory rules.
- Integrations with three UK waste ERPs; a bespoke report for other ERPs.
- The privacy policy says the company uses "secure AWS architecture" and Google Analytics cookies.
- The marketing site is built with Webflow; calls are booked through Calendly; jobs are listed on Ashby. The product is for desktop use by planners, with no mobile app.

Sources: [3, 5, 1, 2]

## Who tried this before Dayjob, and why did they fail?

Four companies in our database of failed startups promised to make trucking or freight more efficient with software or automation and failed. The values below are from that database and are not independently verified.

The failed startups come from our database of dead startups, retold here in our own words; Its entries are AI-assisted summaries of public sources, so they carry no evidence grade.

### Pando (2018 to 2024; funding US$35M; cause: Unit Economics)

- Promise: An AI supply-chain platform with real-time tracking and predictive analytics across logistics networks.
- Why it died: A horizontal platform in a vertical market: 12-month implementations, data integration problems and a services-heavy model.
- Record: 

### Keychain Logistics (2012 to 2015; funding US$500K; cause: Competition)

- Promise: Match truckers with shippers to reduce empty miles and optimise routes.
- Why it died: Larger freight platforms won the market, and the money ran out before it could grow.
- Record: 

### Shipitwise (2015 to 2018; funding US$290K; cause: Unit Economics)

- Promise: Automate freight quotes and logistics for small companies without a shipping department.
- Why it died: It depended on unreliable third-party logistics partners and spent its money on complex integrations.
- Record: 

### Starsky Robotics (2016 to 2019; funding US$21M; cause: Ran Out of Cash)

- Promise: Remotely supervised driverless trucks to answer the shortage of drivers.
- Why it died: Better-funded autonomous driving companies outspent it, and it ran out of cash before the technology and rules were ready.
- Record: 

## What changed

Pando and Shipitwise show the cost of integration: long implementations and many partner systems used up their money. Dayjob also depends on integrations, but it narrowed them to a few ERPs used in one UK industry and offers a report-based connection for the rest, which the founders say lets most customers start within a day.

Keychain Logistics and Starsky Robotics tried to change how freight is bought or how trucks are driven. Dayjob changes neither: the customer keeps its trucks, drivers and ERP, and the software replaces part of one office job, the morning plan. Whether that is enough to last is not yet shown; the company is one year into selling.

## Can one person copy Dayjob now?

**Verdict: The method, partly. The product, not alone.**

The method is open to a small team: years of selling to one industry, watching the people who do the work, and then building software that plugs into the systems they already use. The product itself needs integrations, field visits and sales to operations managers, and the founders had two people and outside money for it.

1. Pick a job that is done by hand every day in one industry and that companies say they cannot hire for.
2. Spend time where the work is done, and learn which systems the customers refuse to replace.
3. Read from those systems instead of replacing them, so a trial costs the customer little.
4. Price and sell in the customer's own unit: extra jobs per truck, extra revenue per year.

**What is still open.** Other short-haul fleets with daily manual planning: construction materials, aggregates, plant hire, recycling collections and field service vans.

## What could go wrong for Dayjob?

- **What is not verified.** The headline, US$496K of annual recurring revenue, rests on one founder statement in the Y Combinator launch post created on 23 April 2026. A second founder statement on the Y Combinator profile says US$653K "in seven months" after August 2025; it has no date, and its implied date (March 2026) is earlier than the lower April figure, so the two do not confirm each other. The UK register shows only micro-company accounts, which contain no revenue. The earlier US$150K of ERP revenue is also a founder statement. A reader could look for a filed full set of accounts, a named customer case study with figures, or a press interview with a dated figure.
- **Competition in logistics AI.** Y Combinator's own Supply Chain and Logistics directory, read on 5 November 2026, lists other young companies with close promises, for example OpEra ("The AI decision engine for factories, warehouses and fleets"), Fleetline ("Optimizing fleet planning with data driven algorithms", 11 people), Maximal ("Truckload Planning at Machine Precision") and Hemut ("AI-powered operating system for trucking companies"). Route-planning software and the ERP vendors themselves are further possible competitors; the founders' own pages argue that generic tools are not built for skip hire.
- **Dependence on model providers and partners.** No downloaded source names an AI model or a model provider. The FAQ describes a system that searches "millions of potential scheduling options" and is trained on new data, which may not depend on a large language model at all; the dependence on providers such as OpenAI or Anthropic therefore cannot be judged. The company does depend on AWS for hosting, according to its privacy policy, and on access to its customers' ERPs (three named UK systems).
- **Calls and messages to drivers.** The lead for this story described AI agents that call or message drivers and customers. The company's pages read on 5 November 2026 do not describe outbound AI calls: they describe schedules sent to drivers and support by phone from "one of the team" ("AI technology, backed by real people"). Three more agents were announced for later in 2026 without details.
- **Funded, and the team will grow.** Y Combinator lists 5 people in November 2026, the company site advertises open positions, and the register shows share allotments in September and December 2025. The story counts as a small-team story today; a larger team after further funding would not change the founding facts above.

## Sources

1. Y Combinator company profile: Dayjob, AI Scheduling for Short Haul Trucks (read 5 November 2026) — https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/dayjob (grade D). Read in full, including the founders' answers and the team data embedded in the page. Source for the US$653K and US$150K statements, the history, the team size and the founders' roles.
2. Y Combinator launch post, 23 April 2026: Dayjob: AI Agents for Industrial Logistics — https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Q32-dayjob-ai-agents-for-industrial-logistics (grade D). Read in full; the creation date is in the page data. Source for the US$496K ARR statement, the reported customer results and the US launch.
3. Dayjob home page (UK), read 5 November 2026 — https://www.dayjob.ai/ (grade C). Read in full. The old address getdayjob.ai redirects here. Source for the product, the FAQ, the ERP integrations and the absence of prices.
4. Dayjob home page (US), read 5 November 2026 — https://www.dayjob.ai/en-us (grade C). Read in full. Source for the US version of the product pages.
5. Dayjob privacy policy, dated 15 April 2025 — https://www.dayjob.ai/privacy-policy (grade C). Read in full. Source for the operating company, AWS and Google Analytics.
6. Companies House: GAEA TECHNOLOGY LTD, company 14260186 — https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/14260186 (grade A). Read the company overview: incorporation date, status, accounts dates and nature of business.
7. Companies House: GAEA TECHNOLOGY LTD, filing history — https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/14260186/filing-history (grade A). Read the list of filings: micro-company accounts and share allotments. The filed documents themselves were not opened.
8. Y Combinator directory: Supply Chain and Logistics companies (read 5 November 2026) — https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/industry/supply-chain-and-logistics (grade C). Read the company list embedded in the page. Source for the competitors named in the watch section.
9. Database of failed startups, local export — /method/#dead (grade C). Local export. AI-written summaries, not independently verified. Source for the failed predecessors.

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