Mathematical optimization, delivered as software

Cut costs 5–10%.
Often much more.

Optimal Applications find the single best decision — across procurement, scheduling, routing, pricing and more. You do the thinking. Optimal does the math.

5–10%
Typical measurable savings
1 best
Answer, out of billions
12+
Industries served
Any size
From SMB to enterprise
The problem

Guessing is expensive.

Gut feel
Experienced, but blind to combinations you'll never test.
What-if spreadsheets
One scenario at a time. Reality has billions.
Hallucinating AI
Confident answers. No guarantee they're right.
How it works

Three steps to the best answer.

Not a model. Not a chatbot. A proven optimization application built for the exact decision you make every day.

01
Frame the decision

We map your goals, constraints, and data — the way your business actually works.

02
Solve for optimal

A tailored optimization engine searches every valid combination and returns the single best.

03
Act, measure, save

Answers land in an interface your team already understands. Savings show up on the P&L.

Optimal Applications

Every decision, optimized.

If it can be measured, it can be optimized. These are the decisions where Optimal customers see savings first.

Procurement

Buy the right things, from the right suppliers, at the right time.

Scheduling

Every shift, machine, and route — assigned optimally.

Routing & Shipping

Lowest-cost delivery across fleets, lanes, and modes.

Product Mix & Pricing

The mix that maximizes margin, not just revenue.

Inventory & BOMs

Right stock, right place — even with complex bills of materials.

Supply Chain & Siting

Where to source, produce, warehouse, and ship from.

Industries

Built for how you actually operate.

From single-site operators to global supply chains — Optimal Applications adapt to your data, constraints, and objectives.

Manufacturing
Logistics & Warehousing
Restaurants & Bars
Agriculture & Mining
Retail Trade
Finance & Insurance
Information & Media
Real Estate
Healthcare
Construction
Personal Care
Energy & Utilities
30-second calculator

What could you save?

Two inputs. A defensible estimate based on ranges Optimal customers actually achieve. No email required.

  • Ranges reflect real deployments across 12+ industries.
  • Your numbers stay in your browser — nothing is sent.
  • For a bespoke analysis, hit "Prove my payback" below.
$500k$1.0M$5.0M$25M$100M$500M
Decision area
Estimated annual savings
$300k $600k
Midpoint $450k · 612% of $5.0M in procurement & sourcing.
Prove this against my numbers
Proof

Real deployments. Real numbers.

Representative engagements — figures from Optimal customer deployments. Names withheld under NDA; details available on request.

Food & Beverage Manufacturing
Multi-plant procurement & production mix
7.4%
reduction in landed COGS

$18.2M annualized savings across 3 plants and 640 SKUs — payback in under 90 days.

It found combinations our planners would never have tried. The first month covered the year's fee.

VP Supply Chain, mid-market F&B manufacturer
Regional Logistics
Fleet routing & lane assignment
11.6%
lower cost per delivered mile

312 trucks re-optimized daily. On-time delivery up 4.1 pts while removing 9 routes from the network.

We were already 'optimized' in a spreadsheet. Optimal quietly proved we were leaving seven figures on the table.

Director of Operations, regional 3PL
Specialty Retail
Assortment, pricing & markdown cadence
5.9%
gross margin lift

Modeled 1.2B price/assortment combinations weekly across 140 stores. Sell-through improved without deeper discounts.

Merch stopped arguing about gut feel. The optimizer settles it — and it's usually right.

Chief Merchant, specialty retail chain
Replaced four planners' worth of spreadsheet gymnastics with one answer we trust.
COO, industrial distributor
It's the only 'AI' project we've run where the CFO asked for the math and was happy with it.
CFO, packaging manufacturer
Deployed in six weeks. Paid back before the pilot ended.
Head of Ops, cold-chain logistics
The savings aren't the surprise. The confidence is.
GM, contract manufacturer
$74M+
Documented annualized savings
6 weeks
Median time to first result
<90 days
Typical payback period
100%
Pilots that hit their savings target
Among all possibilities, the single best choice.That's what "optimized" actually means.
Savings Analysis

What will your savings be?

Tell us where the money moves. We'll return a short, defensible savings analysis — using your numbers, your constraints, your business.

  • Response within 1 business day from an Optimal engineer.
  • No sales pitch — just a written estimate with methodology.
  • NDA on request. Your figures never leave our team.

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