kint next to the alternatives.
Manual planning, an in-house team, heuristics, general AI and spreadsheet solvers all have real strengths. This page shows where each one fits, without invented benchmarks.
The approaches on this page solve real problems for real teams. We say where it fits better than kint, and where kint fits better.
Each comparison lists the dimensions where the alternative is the better choice.
No benchmark numbers or savings claims. Only properties you can check yourself.
Most alternatives work alongside kint. Each page says how.
five common alternatives.
Each row names where the alternative is strongest. The full comparison goes through every dimension.
- 01 · spreadsheets and planner experiencekint vs. manual planningManual planning with spreadsheets and experience works, and it carries knowledge no model has. As the number of interacting rules grows, nobody can show any more how far a plan is from the best one.
- 02 · your own optimization team and solver stackkint vs. custom developmentBuilding optimization in-house gives you full control. It also means hiring operations research specialists, running a solver stack and building the record and review process yourself.
- 03 · rules of thumb, metaheuristics and custom searchkint vs. heuristic methodsHeuristics find good solutions fast and scale to very large problems. They cannot tell you how far a solution is from the best possible one.
- 04 · LLMs and general machine learningkint vs. general AI and MLLanguage models and general machine learning are strong at prediction, classification and understanding text. They give no guarantee that a plan meets every rule, and no measure of how far it is from the best one.
- 05 · built-in spreadsheet solvers and solver add-inskint vs. spreadsheet optimizationSpreadsheet solvers are familiar and close at hand. They are limited in size and methods, and hard to automate, share or audit.
three questions decide it.
- does the plan have to be defended?To a board, a regulator, an auditor or the public. Then you need a stated gap and a record.
- do several rules interact?Labour rules, capacities, budgets and service duties at once. Then experience alone cannot show the best plan.
- does the decision repeat?Every shift, every day, every season. Then a model pays back each time it runs.
three marks, no colours to decode.
- kint fits better. The property matters for decisions you have to defend.
- The alternative fits better. Often setup, familiarity, control or raw speed.
- Both do equally well. Choose on the other dimensions.
put today's plan next to kint's.
Bring a plan your team already made. kint builds the model with the planners and sets both plans next to each other, with the binding limit of each.
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