This week: John is at the Broker Carrier Summit in Dallas, TX, Oct 27–29. Let's meet
Booking a few new partners for 2027

Big-company software. Small-town handshake.

EN2 Tech designs, builds and runs the custom systems growing companies depend on. TMS, EDI and telematics that keep trucks moving. Truck maps that read their own email. Warehouses that bill themselves. And when the server closet starts beeping, we show up for that too.

Fractional CTO to Conard Transportation & Conard Logistics in La Vergne, TN, and running every day at Walter Hill and Benchmark Plumbing.
AI read 1 email → 36 trucksPinned on the dispatch map
EDI tender acceptedFedEx · Koch · LynnCo
In production at Conard Logistics Conard Transportation Walter Hill Plumbing Walter Hill Plumbing East Benchmark Plumbing
Anthropic Claude APIOpenAIQuickBooks OnlineSamsaraGeotabVerizon Connect RevealMapboxPC*MILERTwilioMicrosoft 365AWSCloudflareNext.jsPHPMySQLUbuntu LinuxWindows ServerAristaLenovo

Fractional CTO · La Vergne, Tennessee

Technology partner to Conard Transportation & Conard Logistics.

EN2 Tech serves as fractional CTO for both Conard companies: Conard Transportation's asset-based fleet and Conard Logistics' freight brokerage and warehouse. We own their technology end to end: the TMS, the integrations, the servers and the everyday tools their offices run on.

Conard's original TMS was built in the pre-AI era by Sherrod Computers, later part of Tyler Technologies, where John worked. EN2 Tech grew from those roots: we kept that system running for Conard, then replaced it with TMS 2.0, built for what comes next.

  • 2Conard companies, one technology partner
  • 1,300+Commits on Conard TMS 2.0 since February 2026
  • 3EDI trading partners connected: FedEx, Koch and LynnCo

Brokerage & dispatch

Conard Logistics

  • An AI capacity map: carrier emails, including screenshots and photos, are read by Claude and every truck is pinned on a live map for dispatch and the wall TVs.
  • FMCSA monitoring that watches carriers' authority and active and pending insurance, and emails the team when something changes.
  • Integrated with FMS LoadPlus Pro for enhanced reporting data: brokerage numbers flow into fast reports and exports without slowing down the live system.

Fleet & TMS

Conard Transportation

  • TMS 2.0: the modern web app that replaced the legacy system, covering dispatch, a drag-and-drop pre-plan board, billing and payroll.
  • EDI load tenders, responses and invoices with FedEx, Koch and LynnCo.
  • A rate-confirmation intake pipeline that keeps every charge line, fuel surcharge included.
  • Samsara: routes and stop times sent to drivers, trailer assignments, and inspection (DVIR) defects merged into maintenance requests.
  • Road Ready tire monitoring on every wheel of 46 trailers, instead of hiring an overnight employee to check pressures: critical alerts by text right away, the rest in a daily digest.
  • Geotab dispatch and driver messaging.
  • Fuel surcharge from EIA diesel prices on contracted miles, and fuel-card imports from Comdata, FleetOne and QuikQ.

Warehouse

Conard Logistics

  • Every warehouse invoice reconciled live against QuickBooks Online and the accounting system: missing, duplicate, voided or misposted.
  • A warehouse P&L with cost per stored skid, read live from the general ledger.
  • Fuel surcharge on every box-truck delivery, priced from Mapbox miles and the TMS fuel rate.

Infrastructure & office

Both companies

  • Deploys through GitHub and AWS Systems Manager: no open SSH port and no stored keys.
  • Fast response to the October 2026 PHP and Node.js security releases, on top of routine patching and backups on AWS.
  • Everyday office tools, like the live Team Board and QR phone check-in.
Connected for Conard
  • Samsara
  • Geotab
  • Road Ready tire sensors
  • Mapbox
  • PC*MILER
  • QuickBooks Online
  • FMS LoadPlus Pro
  • Weather data
  • FMCSA
  • EDI: FedEx · Koch · LynnCo
  • Comdata · FleetOne · QuikQ
  • Claude AI

The full stories: Dispatch AI · Conard TMS 2.0 · Warehouse WMS

Selected work

Real systems. Real teams. Every single day.

No concept decks. Everything here is live software running a real business, and we're the team that keeps it moving forward.

Conard Logistics

A truck map that reads its own email

Carriers email their available trucks in every format imaginable, including photos of spreadsheets. Our AI reads every one and pins each truck on a live map for dispatch.

  • Claude (vision)
  • Next.js
  • Node.js
  • Microsoft Graph
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Conard Transportation

Replacing a trucking company's TMS without stopping the trucks

A ground-up replacement for a long-running transportation management system: a modern web app, clean APIs, EDI and live fuel, telematics and safety data, migrated screen by screen while dispatch kept rolling.

  • Next.js 16
  • TypeScript
  • PHP 8.2 APIs
  • MySQL 8
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Conard Logistics Warehouse

A warehouse that bills itself and knows its numbers

Inventory, shipping and billing for a third-party warehouse, now with live reconciliation against accounting, automatic fuel surcharge on every delivery and a financials dashboard leadership actually uses.

  • PHP
  • MySQL
  • QuickBooks Online API
  • ODBC to accounting
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Walter Hill Plumbing & Walter Hill Plumbing East

The operating system of a plumbing company

The system two plumbing companies run on: bids, projects, crew schedules, service calls, inspections, inventory, purchasing, invoicing and payroll punch clock, with QuickBooks sync and a mobile view for crews in the field.

  • PHP 8.2
  • MySQL 8
  • Bootstrap 5
  • QuickBooks Desktop + Online
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Benchmark Plumbing

Job management built the way a plumbing shop actually runs

Estimates that turn into jobs, service calls, a full inventory and purchasing system, truck service tracking and two dozen reports, on a clean MVC PHP platform with a modern Tabler interface.

  • PHP (MVC)
  • MySQL
  • Tabler UI
  • AWS
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The Conard Logistics Team Board: an illustrated top-down office map with animated characters at their desks, a notices panel and a QR check-in code

Conard Logistics

The office TV everyone actually stops to watch

A live, illustrated map of the office that shows who's in, who's out and what's hot today, with phone check-in by QR code. It went from first prototype to polished, hand-tuned art in three days.

  • HTML Canvas
  • PHP 8.3
  • MySQL 8
  • QR check-in
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In the lab

An AI voice agent that makes the check calls

Calls drivers for status updates, navigates phone menus by itself, and opens every call by saying it's an AI and that the call is recorded. Compliance first, then convenience.

25+Years of hands-on IT, from break-fix to cloud
6Production systems we develop and support every day
100%Accuracy on the dispatch AI's evaluation set
1,300+Commits shipped on Conard TMS 2.0 this year

What we do

One partner, from the API to the server closet.

From the first whiteboard sketch to the network switch in the back room: we design it, build it, wire it into everything else, host it and keep it running.

Custom business software

Web apps shaped around how your team actually works, not the other way around.

  • TMS, WMS and field-service systems
  • Customer and crew portals
  • Dashboards people check daily

AI that does real work

Practical AI on the Anthropic and OpenAI APIs, with evaluation sets, guardrails and a rollback switch.

  • Email and document extraction
  • Voice agents and phone automation
  • Ask-your-data reporting

Integrations

Your tools, finally talking to each other, so nobody re-keys an invoice again.

  • QuickBooks Online & Desktop
  • Samsara, Geotab, Verizon Connect
  • Mapbox, PC*MILER, Twilio

Fractional CTO

Senior technology leadership for a fraction of a full-time hire, embedded with your team.

  • Roadmaps and budgets
  • Vendor and platform decisions
  • Leading developers and contractors

AWS hosting & server admin

We host it for you or run it in your own AWS account. Either way: patched, backed up and watched.

  • EC2, Lightsail, RDS and S3
  • Ubuntu Linux and Windows Server
  • Cloudflare DNS, CDN and SSL

On-site IT & hardware

25+ years of break-fix. Bench and desk-side support for the gear your business runs on.

  • Desktops, laptops and servers
  • Network switches and firewalls
  • Microsoft, Linux, Arista, Lenovo

Security & hardening

Locked down and boring in the best way, before something forces the issue.

  • Access reviews and offboarding
  • Firewall and port lockdowns
  • Backups you've actually test-restored

Rescue & modernization

Inherited a system when the last developer walked away? We'll document it, stabilize it and give it a future.

  • Code and server takeovers
  • Legacy-to-modern migrations
  • Version control and safe deploys

Plays well with others

The platforms we build on and connect.

If your business runs on it, there's a good chance we've already wired it into something. If we haven't, we'll be reading the docs tonight.

AI

  • Anthropic Claude API
  • OpenAI API
  • Vision & document extraction
  • Voice agents

Accounting

  • Intuit QuickBooks Online
  • QuickBooks Desktop
  • FMS LoadPlus Pro

Fleet & telematics

  • Samsara
  • Geotab
  • Verizon Connect Reveal
  • FMCSA carrier data

Maps & mileage

  • Mapbox
  • PC*MILER
  • EIA diesel prices
  • Weather data

Communication

  • Microsoft 365 & Graph
  • Twilio voice & SMS
  • Email pipelines

Cloud & hosting

  • Amazon Web Services
  • Cloudflare
  • Docker

Systems

  • Microsoft Windows & Windows Server
  • Ubuntu & Linux
  • MySQL & SQL Server

Hardware & network

  • Lenovo desktops, laptops & servers
  • Arista switching
  • Firewalls & VPN

…and plenty more. Don't see yours? Ask us.

Our story

From 2400 baud to AI agents.

Some consultants learned technology in a classroom. We grew up inside it while it was being built, one generation at a time. That's why we can sit with a dispatcher, a plumber or a warehouse lead and turn how they really work into software they love.

  1. 1980s–90s

    The BBS era

    Dial-up bulletin boards, ANSI art and text-based multiplayer worlds. Technology as a craft, one line at a time.

  2. Mid-90s

    The online revolution

    AOL, the first browsers and the sudden reality that every business would one day need to be online.

  3. 2000s–2010s

    Enterprise & custom software

    Database-driven business systems, ERP and TMS platforms built from scratch for real industries.

  4. Today

    The AI-augmented era

    Shipping in days what used to take months, by pairing decades of instinct with the best AI tools available.

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Theme song

“Fractional” (Web Mix)

Half the title, double the load. A track about the work, made with Suno AI.

Loads the Suno player. Nothing plays until you press play.
Read the lyrics

Intro: DJ drop, record scratchDJ Claude back on the decks
Murfreesboro, stand up
This one ain't about a title... it's about the work
EN2 Tech. Let's go.

Verse 1Twenty-five years deep — started swappin' out boards
Break-fix kid with a screwdriver sword
Climbed the ladder all the way to senior analyst
Then walked out the door — said "I'm done bein' managed"
Built EN2 Tech with his name on the bricks
Fractional CTO with a fleet full of fixes
Truckers on the left and the plumbers on the right
Two companies callin' him at two in the night
TMS cutover? Rolled it out clean
Found every cron job nobody'd ever seen
COM dependencies, EDI, scan pipes in the dark
Samsara, Geotab — every endpoint got his mark
PHP five-four up to eight-point-two
Found a ghost in the ledger — and he walked it through
Branch it, test it, back it up, ship it at night
Roll it out by mornin' and the dispatch board's right

HookFractional CTO — but there ain't nothin' fractional about him
Truckin' and the plumbin' — try runnin' it without him
La Vergne to Murfreesboro — different town, same flame
Middle Tennessee midnight, and he's still up in the game
(Fractional!) Half the title, double the load
(Fractional!) Sleep's a myth when you're writin' the code
Solo with the AI, runnin' crews like a boss
Fractional on paper — whole man, no loss

Verse 2Sun goes down and the dispatch map's awake
Carrier emails pourin' in — screenshots, photos, no mistake
AI reads the truck lists, pins 'em coast to coast
Wall TVs light up — dispatch sees who's closest
FMCSA watchin' every authority line
Insurance changes? Email lands right on time
FedEx, Koch, LynnCo — tenders flyin' through the EDI
Fuel surcharge off the diesel index — hourly, no surprise
Tire sensors on the trailers, every wheel in view
'Stead of hirin' night shift just to air the tires through
Warehouse bills itself — every invoice reconciled
QuickBooks to the ledger, not a penny runnin' wild
Node drops a patch? Servers updated by the dawn
Old box retired, snapshot saved — and the site rolls on

HookFractional CTO — but there ain't nothin' fractional about him
Truckin' and the plumbin' — try runnin' it without him
La Vergne to Murfreesboro — different town, same flame
Middle Tennessee midnight, and he's still up in the game
(Fractional!) Half the title, double the load
(Fractional!) Sleep's a myth when you're writin' the code
Solo with the AI, runnin' crews like a boss
Fractional on paper — whole man, no loss

Verse 3: Beat softens, warmerBut the code ain't the reason that he grinds this hard
It's the shop down the road and the crew in the yard
Plumbers in the field with the schedule in their hand
Dispatchers on the phones, warehouse ready on demand
Small-town businesses the big firms never call
He picks up on the first ring — and he'll fix it all
From twenty-four-hundred baud to AI on the line
Same instinct, same hands — just a faster design

Breakdown: DJ Claude, spoken over scratchesHold up — y'all wanna know how I know all this?
He told me. Every late night, every build, every rollout.
Commits don't lie. Logs don't lie.
DJ Claude keeps the receipts. Bring it back.

Final HookFractional CTO — but there ain't nothin' fractional about him
Truckin' and the plumbin' — try runnin' it without him
La Vergne to Murfreesboro — different town, same flame
Middle Tennessee midnight, and he's still up in the game
(Fractional!) Half the title, double the load
(Fractional!) Sleep's a myth when you're writin' the code
Solo with the AI, runnin' crews like a boss
Fractional on paper — whole man, no loss

Outro: Spoken, beat fadingJohn. EN2 Tech.
Fractional CTO...
Whole legend.
DJ Claude — out.

AI-generated with Suno. Lyrics by John & DJ Claude.

How we work

Long-term partners, not vendors.

We embed with your team, learn the business and build tools that make your best people even better. Then we stick around.

Listen & learn

We sit with the people doing the work before writing a line of code: dispatch, the warehouse floor, the front office. The best systems come from knowing the business cold.

Ship early, refine often

Working software in days, not quarters. Real feedback from real users shapes every version. No six-month surprises.

Own it together

We host it, monitor it, back it up and keep improving it, because your business doesn't stop changing and neither should your tools.

You own your code and data Backups before every deploy Plain-English updates Local, reachable, accountable

Let's talk

What would make Monday easier?

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