Is Dayjob profitable in 2026?

No profitability figures are disclosed. Dayjob reported ARR of $496K as of April 23, 2026, began commercial sales in August 2025, and was targeting $1M ARR by end of May 2026 per its own job listing dated April 25, 2026.

Could AI replace Dayjob's own product?

Dayjob's entire value proposition is an AI agent replacing manual transport planners, generating a full fleet schedule in about 60 seconds versus the 60-90 minutes a human planner takes each morning, per company statements as of April 2026.

Who is Dayjob's biggest competitor?

Samsara, a large public fleet-management incumbent with 300+ integrations, and Arrakis, a London/Paris rival that emerged from stealth on July 22, 2026 with $38M ($30M Series A led by Blossom Capital) targeting AI for industrial logistics.

Dayjob is privately held, backed by Y Combinator's Spring 2026 batch. It began as Gaea, founded October 2022, before pivoting to the Dayjob AI scheduling product in January 2025, per Y Combinator's company page.

Is Dayjob raising a new funding round?

No institutional seed or Series A has been confirmed in public sources as of July 2026; Dayjob remains YC-stage while adjacent rival Arrakis raised $38M on July 22, 2026, intensifying pressure to secure larger capital.

What does Dayjob's product actually do?

Dayjob sells an AI scheduling agent for short-haul waste and skip-hire trucking fleets, integrating with ERPs Weighsoft, PurGo, and Wastelogics, generating a fleet schedule in about 60 seconds and continuously re-optimizing, per its April 23, 2026 YC launch post.

YC Spring 2026 · United Kingdom

Dayjob

AI scheduling agent for short haul waste trucking, plugged into ERP systems.

Losing its protection

Assessed 27 July 2026 · Evidence as of 27 July 2026

The structural protection is eroding.

On the recordSince 27 July 2026 · Checkable from May 2026 · Every call on the record Checkpoint: Dayjob's stated target of $1M ARR

The call

Dayjob has real customers and a working product in a painful niche, but nothing yet stops a better funded rival from picking the same vertical.

Dayjob built software that uses artificial intelligence to schedule and dispatch waste collection trucks within existing waste management systems, and it has real customers paying for it today. The company is not impossible to copy: Samsara is a much larger competitor that could move into this space, and Arrakis, a newer AI startup with $38 million in funding and backing from OpenAI executives, is already building similar tools for industrial operations like logistics and could easily shift focus to waste. The make-or-break question for Dayjob over the next 18 to 24 months is whether it can become so deeply woven into waste dispatchers' daily workflows (through expanded features, smarter predictions from more data, and deeper specialization in waste) that switching to a rival becomes too painful to consider, before Samsara or Arrakis move fast enough to offer the same thing.

Why

AI pressure: Arrakis. Arrakis has $38M and OpenAI-exec backing for industrial ops AI, one vertical pick from entering waste dispatch. Could AI do the core job? Only partly.

Bigger players: Samsara. Samsara already does fleet routing at scale and could add an autonomous scheduling agent for waste and short haul any time. Could a giant copy it? Yes, easily.

What protects it. Early integrations with Weighsoft, PurGo and Wastelogics give Dayjob a head start on the daily dispatcher workflow before rivals show up.

What would change this call

Samsara announces or ships an autonomous scheduling agent for waste or short-haul routes. Would show the incumbent giant closing the gap Dayjob relies on for its window.
Arrakis publicly names waste or short-haul logistics as a target vertical. Would show the better-funded rival entering Dayjob's exact niche.
Weighsoft, PurGo, or Wastelogics announce native AI scheduling features. Would show the ERP vendors closing off Dayjob's integration-based access point.

Key numbers

12 paying customers as of April 2026 (2026-04-25)
$496K ARR reported, April 2026 (2026-04-23)
20% month over month growth claimed, July 2026 (2026-07-20)

Named risks

No structural moat; Samsara or Arrakis could ship a competing scheduling agent within 18-24 months. Severity: high
All ARR, growth, and customer-impact figures are vendor-self-reported with no third-party audit. Severity: medium
Small team of about 5-6 people competing against a rival that just raised $38M. Severity: high
Underlying ERP vendors (Weighsoft, PurGo, Wastelogics) could build native scheduling and cut Dayjob out. Severity: medium
US expansion coincides with a disruptive trucking labor shock from license cancellations, per July 24, 2026 report. Severity: low

Rivals, as read in July 2026

Rival	Direction	Evidence
Samsara	contesting	300+ integrations, existing route optimization; customer cut planning to 20-30 min, per Aug 18, 2025 blog
Arrakis	gaining on	Emerged July 22, 2026 with $38M, targeting AI layer for industrial logistics, 76x better capitalized
FleetWorks	contesting	Raised $17M for AI freight-broker dispatch agents, different subsegment, per YC page
Nomad Inc.	contesting	Raised $2M seed April 1, 2026 for AI fleet management, focused on fuel not scheduling

Questions people ask

Is Dayjob profitable in 2026?: No profitability figures are disclosed. Dayjob reported ARR of $496K as of April 23, 2026, began commercial sales in August 2025, and was targeting $1M ARR by end of May 2026 per its own job listing dated April 25, 2026.
Could AI replace Dayjob's own product?: Dayjob's entire value proposition is an AI agent replacing manual transport planners, generating a full fleet schedule in about 60 seconds versus the 60-90 minutes a human planner takes each morning, per company statements as of April 2026.
Who is Dayjob's biggest competitor?: Samsara, a large public fleet-management incumbent with 300+ integrations, and Arrakis, a London/Paris rival that emerged from stealth on July 22, 2026 with $38M ($30M Series A led by Blossom Capital) targeting AI for industrial logistics.
Who owns Dayjob?: Dayjob is privately held, backed by Y Combinator's Spring 2026 batch. It began as Gaea, founded October 2022, before pivoting to the Dayjob AI scheduling product in January 2025, per Y Combinator's company page.
Is Dayjob raising a new funding round?: No institutional seed or Series A has been confirmed in public sources as of July 2026; Dayjob remains YC-stage while adjacent rival Arrakis raised $38M on July 22, 2026, intensifying pressure to secure larger capital.
What does Dayjob's product actually do?: Dayjob sells an AI scheduling agent for short-haul waste and skip-hire trucking fleets, integrating with ERPs Weighsoft, PurGo, and Wastelogics, generating a fleet schedule in about 60 seconds and continuously re-optimizing, per its April 23, 2026 YC launch post.

Timeline

2026-07-24LA Times reports US trucker labor shock: ~26K immigrant drivers removed, ~30K licenses canceled
2026-07-22Rival Arrakis emerges from stealth with $38M funding for industrial AI ops including logistics
2026-07-20Dayjob recruiting post claims 20% month-over-month growth and US expansion priority
2026-04-25Dayjob job listing claims 12 paying customers, targets $1M ARR by end of May 2026
2026-04-23Dayjob publicly launches via YC Launch, reports ARR of $496K
2025-08Dayjob begins commercial sales of AI scheduling agent
2025-01Company pivots from Gaea ERP product to Dayjob AI scheduling agent
2022-10Company founded in London as Gaea, an ERP product for waste recyclers

Revision history

27 July 2026

First assessed. Losing its protection. The text above is fixed as of this date and is not edited afterwards.

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