Kodiak AI

6% more Customer-Owned Driverless Vehicles QoQ.
44% more Hours of Paid Driverless Operations QoQ.
45% more Loads Delivered QoQ.

Q3 has felt like the moment before liftoff around here. Our highway launch is almost here. Readiness is at 99%, and we named IKEA Supply as our first long-haul partner. And we’ve certainly earned our right to launch, with over 58,000 paid driverless hours, nearly 30,000 loads delivered, and freight tonnage delivered more than doubling. We also signed a first-of-its-kind binding agreement with DTL. They’re buying 75 trucks outfitted with the Kodiak Driver. Big news across the board.

The world’s biggest customer-owned autonomous fleet just got bigger. The first Western Star 49X trucks have joined the Atlas fleet, built for the harshest operating conditions and powered by the Gen 7 Kodiak Driver. They run in a day-cab configuration with new compute and new AI perception models. Western Star, welcome to the fleet. #AIfortheLongHaul

Lorie Boyd has helped build teams at some of Silicon Valley’s best-known companies. She helped establish HR at Salesforce before its IPO, built Zendesk’s global recruiting team, and spent nearly eight years at Turo, where she led people strategy through rapid growth and IPO prep.

Today, she joins Kodiak as our Chief People Officer.

As we get ready to launch unsupervised autonomous operations on highways, Lorie will lead talent, development, and culture. As Don put it, “our people are every bit as important as our technology.” Which is why Lorie is such an important addition.

Welcome to the team, Lorie.

99%. That’s where our Autonomy Readiness Measure stands today. The final safety case is coming together, we’re on track to launch driverless operations in December, and the team is every bit as excited as you’d imagine. Our Autonomy Readiness Measure is at 99%, but we are 100% ready to make history.

#AIfortheLongHaul

Just a few weeks ago, @DTLTrans and Kodiak completed the first commercial autonomous delivery in California history, hauling perishable goods between Fresno and Los Angeles. The pilot was a success.

Based on the success of that pilot, DTL has committed to deploying the Kodiak Driver in 75 driverless trucks. This is a first-ever agreement for DTL to implement Kodiak’s driver-as-a-service model to expand capacity and enhance safety—and get a whole lot of food where it needs to be, when it needs to be there.

$KDK #AIfortheLongHaul