Dayjob GTM brain

Dayjob sells AI fleet scheduling to skip hire and waste hauling operators.

category

Waste fleet scheduling

market profile

  • text: Skip hire dispatch combines variable job demand, customer time windows and driver availability.
  • text: Waste software suites and general route optimizers compete for dispatch workflows.

personas

  • title: Transport manager
    pains:
    • Replanning driver assignments as jobs and availability change
    • Protecting customer time windows without adding vehicles
  • title: Skip hire owner or managing director
    pains:
    • Lost margin from idle trucks and inefficient jobs
    • Finding capacity for more jobs without adding drivers
  • title: Fleet planner
    pains:
    • Hours spent creating schedules across job constraints
    • Manual updates when the day's plan changes

icp

  • text: Skip hire and waste management operators with a fleet of drivers and daily job bookings; the site's example uses 15 drivers.
  • text: Operators using Weighsoft, PurGo or Wastelogics, especially those with connected telematics.

message pillars

  • text: Purpose-built scheduling for skip hire.
  • text: Integrate existing job booking systems.
  • text: Improve planning speed.
  • text: Adapt to changing conditions.

objections

  • objection: Will it work with our ERP?
    response: The site names Weighsoft, PurGo and Wastelogics integrations and describes bespoke reports for other systems.
  • objection: Will deployment disrupt dispatch?
    response: The company says most businesses are running within a day, with support; validate on the target workflow.
  • objection: Can a generic route planner handle skip-specific constraints?
    response: Dayjob says it accounts for skip sizes and driver schedules; test actual stacking and time-window rules.

competitors

  • name: AMCS
    why: Waste suite with routing and dispatch.
  • name: CurbWaste
    why: Waste hauling dispatch and route management.
  • name: OptimoRoute
    why: General route scheduling and optimization alternative.

keywords

  • skip hire scheduling software
  • waste collection route optimization
  • skip truck dispatch
  • waste fleet planning
  • roll off scheduling software

voice

  • Direct and operational
  • Commercial and outcome-oriented
  • Plain-spoken

signals

  • text: Hiring transport planners or expanding a skip fleet suggests more scheduling complexity.
  • text: Using a named supported waste ERP and telematics may reduce integration friction.

stack

  • Weighsoft
  • PurGo
  • Wastelogics
  • telematics

pricing

model: unknown

motion

sales_led

channels

  • website
  • case study

confidence

medium

Founders

  • name: George Postlethwaite
    title: Founder/CEO
    role: CEO
    bio: Building Dayjob - autonomous AI agents that run transport operations in real time. Before this, I built Gaea, an ERP for e-waste recyclers. I was an early employee at Deliveroo (acq. Doordash 2025) and launched their UK grocery business, and previously led sales at Otta (LocalGlobe-backed job search platform).
  • name: Fred Fooks
    title: Founder/CTO
    role: CTO
    bio: Building Dayjob - autonomous AI agents that run transport operations in real time. Previously built Gaea, an ERP for e-waste recyclers, from scratch. Engineering Science at Oxford. Background in AI and Data Science at Deloitte and Capgemini.

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