I am 44 years old. I have been in this industry for 26 years. I started on the trucks. I have spent the last decade and a half building software for the haulers I used to work alongside, and watching, from the inside, what happens to a customer-first software company when the cap table changes.
What I watched was extraction. Prices climb every year for reasons that never get explained. Payment rails take a piece of every transaction. Data becomes hostage the moment someone tries to leave. Contracts auto-renew quietly and exit through a tunnel. The industry tells haulers this is just how software works. I do not believe that anymore.
Waste PBC is how I am going to lead instead.
On terms that even I cannot unwind.
What this is
Waste PBC will be filed in Delaware as a Public Benefit Corporation. The entity has not been filed yet. The charter is being published before the filing, on purpose. The commitments need to live in public before there is a single customer, a single contract, or a single opportunity to soften them in private.
What is being built
Two products will sit under Waste PBC. Both are bound by the same charter.
Steward is software for roll-off and waste haulers. Billing, operations, the customer-facing portal, and the connective tissue that holds the day together. Built so the people running the business get real value out of it, and built so the company that owns it cannot turn around later and squeeze them for that value.
Klau is its sister product. Dispatch and route optimization for roll-off operators. Same charter. Same vendor portability. Same data-exit rights. Same posture.
Building in the open
This industry deserves software written with care, by people who understand the work, with a real obligation to deliver value. That obligation is hard to believe in if the work happens behind a curtain. So the work is going to happen in public.
A public roadmap is part of that. Major milestones, what we are working on now, what we are holding off on, and the reasoning behind each. The first entries for Steward and Klau will be posted here on this site within the next few weeks, and kept current from there.
Why publish before incorporation
The cheapest moment to make a promise is after it is too late to keep it. The most expensive moment is right now, before there are customers to lose, revenue to protect, or investors to placate. Putting the commitments down in public today is how anyone can tell whether they are real. If the charter softens between this page and the filed certificate of incorporation, the softening will be visible in the diff.
The platform is in active development. Nothing here is for sale. This site exists so that anyone considering working with this effort, working for it, or working alongside it, can read what it stands for before there is anything else to look at.
The commitments will live in three places at once: the certificate of incorporation, the customer master agreement, and the software license. Any future attempt to remove them triggers the release of the source code under a strong copyleft license. There is no removal that does not arrive at the same outcome.
Reach
If you operate a hauling business, work in the industry, or just want to understand what this is, you can write to hello@wastepbc.com.