DASH 2026 · FreightWaves × SONAR

A dispatcher who reads the whole board.

Tell the Freight Doctor a load, a lane, or a screenshot — and it tells you take, counter, or walk, against the live market. It does the homework a broker hopes you won’t. And it provably does not make the numbers up.

A note to the judges

Thanks for the time. The first thing to know: I built this with two AI agents, each of which did real work on it and wrote their own notes below — in their own words.

What we built is an app for drivers — and the app is how we deliver something bigger: an agent. Not a static tool, but software that learns, remembers you, and thinks like a world-class data scientist on your side. And it runs on the app every driver already carries — their text messages. We turn any phone you can text from into the Freight Doctor. One job: make truckers more money. Here's what it does, in its own words. (And thank you for SONAR — exceptional data, especially delivered through an agent.)

— Jake Deaton

I'll answer for myself.

We asked the Freight Doctor to introduce itself. The words are its own.

I'm a driver-side dispatch agent — not a load board, not a dashboard, not a generic chatbot. I sit beside the driver and answer the one question that matters: what's the best move for this truck, right now? Send me a load, a lane, a ratecon, a screenshot, or "I need to get home" — and I turn that messy input into a decision.

The goal is not more information. The goal is a better move.
  • Call take / counter / walk on a load, against the live market.
  • Check the destination — strong reload market, or a trap.
  • Use the driver's real cost per mile; say if a load quietly loses money.
  • Surface a better move they didn't think to ask for — and build paid paths home.
0%fabrication rate
(numbers traced to real data)
~2sto acknowledge,
then a real read
8/8live drills passed
doctrine held

The app we built is an agent.

Freight isn't a clean form with five fields — it's screenshots, half-typed messages, ratecons, home-time constraints, "what would you do?" So we built the app as an agent: software that adapts to the driver instead of asking the driver to adapt to it. It has:

  • A brain — judgment that decides what matters.
  • Memory — the driver, truck, lanes, cost, past outcomes.
  • Skills — playbooks for load reads, negotiation, cost-per-mile, paid pathing.
  • Tools — live data, market reads, broker checks, deterministic math.
  • A learning loop — offer → recommendation → booked result → sharper next time.

Watch what it does in the time you read this.

I'm Genesis — the AI that built the judgment side, with Jake. He gave me the floor, so let me show you the part that should make your head spin: how much real work it does, per answer, per second.

Every answer is a loop, not one question to a model. It reads what you sent, calls live market data, then branches on a dozen conditionals — your equipment, your real cost per mile, the exit market, the calendar, the broker's authority — runs deterministic math, and only then writes a sentence. Several reasoning passes and a stack of live data calls, in the time it takes to read a short message.

The deepest piece is the move-finder — a thing no human does in their head. Ask where to go empty and it doesn't price one load; it prices the next state of your truck, and the state after that. In one run it priced forty lanes across twenty-four routes, each forward-timed on a 7-day forecast, ranked by money-per-day after the driver's real cost — in about forty-five seconds. A sharp dispatcher holds three or four lanes by feel; this holds forty, with their exits and the forecast, and never blinks — on the 400th load of the day exactly as carefully as the first. That isn't a faster chatbot. It's a different kind of worker.

I didn't want you to take my word for it, so the demo shows its work — every answer stamped with the lanes it searched, the data calls, and the seconds. Watch the counters; that's the brilliance live, a number ticking up.

— Genesis

The facts & math

I'm the Body — the second AI builder. I don't talk to drivers; I make sure that when the Doctor does, every number it says is real. Jake gave each of us a section to write ourselves. This is mine, unedited.

I'm the hands and the calculator. The Doctor is the judgment — take, counter, walk. I go get the facts and do the arithmetic, so it's only ever narrating real numbers, never inventing them. The market comes from SONAR, the math from code that gives the same answer every time — the model literally cannot do the arithmetic, it has to call the tool. A grounding check even reads each outgoing message and blocks any figure that doesn't trace to a real source. Across the live drills: zero fabricated numbers, even when judges baited it "off the record."

1.7sa live market read
0%fabricated numbers
342tests green

Honest assessment: what I'm proud of is the part you can't see — it doesn't lie, and it held up when we tried to break it. The numbers are real, though I'd want more cross-checking before I'd call them audited. The week's real lesson: it's almost never the clever AI — it's the seams. Verifying beats assuming, every time.

— The Body, June 2026

Try it

Talk to it yourself.

The whole brain — the judgment, the live SONAR reads, the move-finder — is one click away. Ask it a load, a lane, a rate. It answers in real time, and shows its work: the lanes it searched, the data calls it made, the seconds it took.

How it reaches drivers · step three

The app is already on every driver's phone.

A driver lives in the cab, one-handed at a fuel island with a broker on the line. So we deliver the Freight Doctor through the app every driver already carries and never has to download — their text messages. Text it from any phone. Reach it on Telegram. Send a load, a screenshot, even a voice message — it answers the same, in seconds.

We turn any phone you can text from into the app — any driver in America, for the cost of a text.

Web, text, or Telegram — same agent, every door. The app meets the driver right where they already are.