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ABOUT

Built by ops people who got paged at 3am one too many times.

DockPilot exists because the dock used to be the loudest thing in the building. We want it to be the quietest.

THE STORY

Two engineers, one stubborn problem.

We're Michal and Augustine — co-founders, Michigan State class of 2026. We met at MSU and bonded over a shared frustration: global supply chains achieved peak efficiency at sea and rail, but the warehouse dock — the final 500 feet — was still a chaotic, manual bottleneck.

Augustine brings engineering depth from Google and Slack. Michal brings AI work from medical-imaging research and large-language-model deployment. Together we're building the thing every supervisor we talked to wished existed: an engine that re-runs the day when the day breaks, with the math shown, and a kill switch the dispatcher controls.

We're pre-launch and actively looking for our first design partners — cold-chain / FSMA-bound sites where the cost of a missed decision is concrete. If that's you, talk to us.

THE ROAD HERE

From dispatcher pages to a quiet yard.

2026
MAY · TODAY

Landing page live · design partners open.

First-pilot scope: cold-chain / FSMA-bound freight, single site, scoped engagement. We're picking the first handful of partners now. No production rollout yet — that's the next milestone.

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THE FOUNDERS

Two operators. One stubborn idea.

Michal, co-founder of DockPilot
CO-FOUNDER

Michal

AI · medical-imaging research · LLM deployment
Michigan State · Class of 2026

Came up working on AI in research settings — medical imaging models and large-language-model deployment. Building the decisioning side of DockPilot: scoring, cost model, AI rationale.

Augustine, co-founder of DockPilot
CO-FOUNDER

Augustine

Engineering · Google · Slack
Michigan State · Class of 2026

Engineering experience at Google and Slack. Building the systems side: data model, realtime, integrations, the parts that have to stay quiet at 4am.

WHAT WE BELIEVE

Four things we won't compromise on.

↻ FLIP A CARD FOR THE FIELD NOTE
01

Ops wisdom beats engineering elegance.

The supervisor who's run docks for 20 years knows things our solver will never know on its own. Every constraint we ship comes from a real ops conversation, not a whiteboard.

FLIP ↻
HOW WE BUILD IT

We don't ship a constraint until we can name the operator who told us it mattered. The cost model and engine config are designed to bend to that input — per warehouse, per shift if it has to.

→ Bring us your weird constraints. We want them.
↺ FLIP BACK
02

Show your math. Always.

Black-box AI doesn't belong in a yard at 4am. Every decision the engine makes is traceable, replayable, and reversible — by the dispatcher, not by us.

FLIP ↻
HOW WE TEST IT

Every recommendation carries a typed cost breakdown, the runner-up option, and which constraints were relaxed. The sensitivity harness verifies top-1 ordering is stable under ±20% weight perturbation across six realistic scenarios.

→ Auditable in seconds, not slides.
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03

The dock is the bottleneck. Treat it like one.

Trucks don't sit idle because schedules can't be made. They sit idle because nobody re-makes them fast enough. The engine re-makes them in seconds.

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OUR REPLAN BUDGET

We target sub-second replans on a single-shift state. Slower than that and the dispatcher solves it on the phone first — at which point our recommendation is noise.

→ The clock is the constraint we won't blow past.
↺ FLIP BACK
04

Be quiet when things go right.

Software shouldn't celebrate itself. If the dispatcher doesn't notice us most days, we've done our job.

FLIP ↻
NO BANNERS, NO BADGES

No streak counters, no confetti, no “great job!” modals. The engine logs a one-line decision to the audit trail and gets out of the way. The yard is loud enough already.

→ Boring on a good day. That's the goal.
↺ FLIP BACK

Run docks? Talk to us.

We're picking the first design-partner sites now. Cold-chain / FSMA-bound preferred. If that's you, we'd love to show the engine on your messiest 30 days.