Ollie — week of 2026-04-20

Week one. Ollie started as an idea I’d been chewing on for a while — run the operational core of a trucking dispatch desk (loads, trips, drivers, trucks, trailers) as a single self-hosted Rust service, and build it so an AI agent can drive it through MCP rather than bolting an assistant on afterward.

The first real piece of architecture was the document store: a content-addressed (SHA-256), deduplicated blob store, written up as a design spec before any of the AI processing landed on top of it. Rate cons, BOLs, PODs and photos all flow through that store, so getting the storage model right before building on it mattered. Nothing to look at yet — but the foundation’s poured.