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Fast to solve.
Fast to build.

We solve complex routing, scheduling, rostering, and assignment problems with speed and precision. Gradient Path, our optimization platform, turns complex operational constraints into high-quality solutions in minutes, not hours. And because every application is built on the same flexible platform, new solutions can go from idea to production faster—without reinventing the optimization technology every time.

Answer quality
A platform built on global optimization solvers (linear programming), able to generate higher-quality solutions fast.
Problem classes
Routing, scheduling, rostering and assignment — one platform across all four.
Integration
Embeds in your software as a library, with interfaces for C++ and Python.
A routing solution

Five vehicles and 30 stops, on real San Francisco streets.

A routing solution in San Francisco A street map of San Francisco's SoMa and Mission districts. Five delivery routes leave a depot at a central intersection, each following real streets through its own group of stops and returning to the depot.
San Francisco. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
Why Gradient Optimization

What you get that a generic solver doesn't give you.

Built fast, on a working platform

Every application is a model on Gradient Path, so yours starts from a proven platform rather than a blank page.

A view of the whole solution

Column generation weighs whole routes and rosters against each other, finding improvements that swapping one stop or shift at a time would miss.

Your rules/constraints, as they are

Rules/constraints specific to your operation plug in as your own code. The model fits the operation, not the other way round.

Time to try scenarios

Solutions come back in minutes, so planners can compare several before committing to one.

Have a planning problem?

Show us your problem. We'll tell you how we'd approach it.

A sentence about what you plan, how big it is and how long you have to plan it is a fine place to start.