Dock Door Assignment Board
A live board that assigns scheduled loads to dock doors and tracks every status from waiting to done, with supervisor-approved transitions and automatic turn-time logging - so your dock stops running on shouting and sticky notes.
A real-time dock door board your team logs into, where loads are assigned to the right doors, every status change is approved by a supervisor, and turn time is tracked automatically.
Before you start
- A free Supabase account
- A free Vercel account
- A free Resend account (for alerts - optional to start)
- Your current list of dock doors and scheduled loads (a spreadsheet is fine)
The problem this kills
Your dock runs on a whiteboard, a radio, and a supervisor's memory. A driver pulls in and nobody knows which door is open. A reefer load gets sent to a dry door with no chiller hookup. Two trailers get assigned the same door because two people wrote on the board at the same time. And when someone asks "why did that load take three hours to turn?" - there's no record. Just chaos, idle drivers racking up detention charges, and a supervisor who can't be in two places at once.
The information you need already exists - scheduled loads, which doors are open, what each door can handle. It's just scattered across heads, a printout, and a marker board that's wrong by 9 a.m.
What you'll build
A live dock door board your whole team logs into. Scheduled loads land in a queue. The system suggests a door that actually fits the load (reefer goes to a refrigerated, dock-height door; floor-loaded goes to a ground-level one). Your supervisor approves the assignment with one tap, the load moves to the board, and as it goes from at-door to loading to done, each status change is reviewed and approved. The clock runs the whole time, so turn time is logged automatically for every load - no stopwatch, no guessing.
What's inside the Implementation Plan
The plan is a complete, paste-and-go runbook for an AI coding agent (Claude Code). You don't write code - you paste, answer questions, and approve.
It opens by interviewing you about your actual dock - your doors and what each one can handle, how loads get scheduled today, your real status names, your peak hours, and the messy exceptions like live loads, drop trailers, and reefers that need pre-cooling. It reflects a short tailored spec back to you and waits for your thumbs-up before building anything. The result fits your dock, not a generic template.
Then it walks you step by step through building the door model, the load queue, the live board, the supervisor approval gate, turn-time logging, and email alerts - each step ending in a ready-to-paste prompt.
The governance it includes (this is the point)
This isn't a toy. The plan builds in the controls that make a tool trustworthy on a real dock:
- Login so only your team can see and touch the board.
- Row-level security so each site or organization only ever sees its own doors and loads.
- A human-in-the-loop approval gate - the system suggests a door and proposes status changes, but nothing moves until a supervisor approves it.
- A complete audit trail - who assigned what door, who approved each transition, and exactly when.
- Duplicate guards so the same load can't be assigned twice to the same door at the same time (the dedupe key is load + door + time).
Who it's for
Dock supervisors, receiving and shipping leads, and yard coordinators who are tired of running the dock from memory and want a single live board everyone trusts - without hiring a developer or buying a six-figure yard-management system.
You've got this. Paste the first prompt and let the agent interview you.