diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 4d94bc9..4014dce 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -6,3 +6,16 @@ edition = "2021"
 # See more keys and their definitions at https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/manifest.html
 
 [dependencies]
+async-std = { version = "1", features = ["attributes"] }
+chrono = "0.4.15"
+serde = { version = "1.0", features = ["derive"] }
+dotenv = "~0.15.0"
+driftwood = "0"
+handlebars = { version = "~3.4.0", features = ["dir_source"] }
+html-escape = "~0.2.6"
+log = "~0.4.8"
+pretty_env_logger = "~0.3.1"
+serde_json = "~1.0.0"
+sqlx = { version = "~0.5.1", features = ["chrono", "json", "offline", "sqlite", "uuid", "runtime-async-std-rustls"] }
+tide = "0"
+uuid = { version = "~0.8.1", features = ["v4", "serde"]}
diff --git a/README.adoc b/README.adoc
index 1dac47b..c97c51c 100644
--- a/README.adoc
+++ b/README.adoc
@@ -3,3 +3,38 @@
 Janky is a simple CI system built in Rust. This is performative coding and not
 intended to be a production system you can actually use.
 
+
+
+* Two binaries:
+  * `janky-server`
+    * Listens HTTP
+    * Does web shit
+    * Interacts with agents
+  * `janky-agent`:
+    * Run workloads
+    * Listen HTTP
+    * executes commands
+
+[source]
+----
+┌────────┐                                       │            │http
+│        │sqlite3                                │   Agent    │ws
+│ Server │http                                   │            │
+│        │ws                                     └──────┬─────┘
+└───┬────┘                                              │
+    │                                                   │
+    │             What are your caps?                   │
+    ├──────────────────────────────────────────────────►│
+    │                                                   │
+    │                                                   │
+    │             git,svn,bash,rustc,cargo,websocket    │
+    │◄──────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
+    │                                                   │
+    │           great, here's some commands             │
+    ├──────────────────────────────────────────────────►│
+    │                                                   │
+    │                                                   │
+    │         kewl, here's the logs, id, etc            │
+    │◄──────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
+    │                                                   │
+----
diff --git a/src/main.rs b/src/main.rs
index e7a11a9..3afa2a9 100644
--- a/src/main.rs
+++ b/src/main.rs
@@ -1,3 +1,144 @@
-fn main() {
-    println!("Hello, world!");
+/*
+ * This is the main Janky entrypoint for the server"
+ */
+
+use async_std::sync::{Arc, RwLock};
+use dotenv::dotenv;
+use handlebars::Handlebars;
+use log::*;
+
+#[derive(Clone, Debug)]
+pub struct AppState<'a> {
+    hb: Arc<RwLock<Handlebars<'a>>>,
+}
+
+impl AppState<'_> {
+    fn new() -> Self {
+        Self {
+            hb: Arc::new(RwLock::new(Handlebars::new())),
+        }
+    }
+
+    pub async fn register_templates(&self) -> Result<(), handlebars::TemplateFileError> {
+        let mut hb = self.hb.write().await;
+        hb.clear_templates();
+        hb.register_templates_directory(".hbs", "views")
+    }
+
+    pub async fn render(
+        &self,
+        name: &str,
+        data: &serde_json::Value,
+    ) -> Result<tide::Body, tide::Error> {
+        /*
+         * In debug mode, reload the templates on ever render to avoid
+         * needing a restart
+         */
+        #[cfg(debug_assertions)]
+        {
+            self.register_templates().await;
+        }
+        let hb = self.hb.read().await;
+        let view = hb.render(name, data)?;
+        Ok(tide::Body::from_string(view))
+    }
+}
+
+/**
+ * The routes module contains all the tide routes and the logic to fulfill the responses for each
+ * route.
+ *
+ * Modules are nested for cleaner organization here
+ */
+mod routes {
+    use crate::AppState;
+    use log::*;
+    use std::collections::HashMap;
+    use tide::{Body, Request, StatusCode};
+    use uuid::Uuid;
+
+    /**
+     * Helper function to pull out a :uuid parameter from the path
+     */
+    fn get_uuid_param(req: &Request<AppState<'_>>) -> Result<Uuid, tide::Error> {
+        let uuid = req.param::<String>("uuid");
+
+        if uuid.is_err() {
+            return Err(tide::Error::from_str(
+                StatusCode::BadRequest,
+                "No uuid specified",
+            ));
+        }
+
+        debug!("Fetching poll: {:?}", uuid);
+
+        match Uuid::parse_str(&uuid.unwrap()) {
+            Err(_) => Err(tide::Error::from_str(
+                StatusCode::BadRequest,
+                "Invalid uuid specified",
+            )),
+            Ok(uuid) => Ok(uuid),
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     *  GET /
+     */
+    pub async fn index(req: Request<AppState<'_>>) -> Result<Body, tide::Error> {
+        let params = json!({
+            "page": "home"
+        });
+        let mut body = req.state().render("index", &params).await?;
+        body.set_mime("text/html");
+        Ok(body)
+    }
+
+    pub mod api {
+        use log::*;
+        use tide::{Body, Request, Response, StatusCode};
+
+        use crate::AppState;
+    }
+}
+
+#[async_std::main]
+async fn main() -> Result<(), tide::Error> {
+    pretty_env_logger::init();
+    dotenv().ok();
+
+    //let database_url = std::env::var("DATABASE_URL").expect("DATABASE_URL must be set");
+    let state = AppState::new();
+    state.register_templates().await;
+    let mut app = tide::with_state(state);
+
+    #[cfg(not(debug_assertions))]
+    {
+        info!("Activating RELEASE mode configuration");
+        app.with(driftwood::ApacheCombinedLogger);
+    }
+
+    #[cfg(debug_assertions)]
+    {
+        info!("Activating DEBUG mode configuration");
+        info!("Enabling a very liberal CORS policy for debug purposes");
+        use tide::security::{CorsMiddleware, Origin};
+        let cors = CorsMiddleware::new()
+            .allow_methods(
+                "GET, POST, PUT, OPTIONS"
+                    .parse::<tide::http::headers::HeaderValue>()
+                    .unwrap(),
+            )
+            .allow_origin(Origin::from("*"))
+            .allow_credentials(false);
+
+        app.with(cors);
+    }
+    /*
+     * All builds will have apidocs, since they're handy
+     */
+    app.at("/static").serve_dir("static/")?;
+    debug!("Configuring routes");
+    app.at("/").get(routes::index);
+    app.listen("0.0.0.0:8000").await?;
+    Ok(())
 }
diff --git a/static/.gitignore b/static/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e69de29
diff --git a/views/.gitignore b/views/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e69de29