your planners know the rules.
we write the math.
Some planning is too complex for a spreadsheet, and the company too lean for an operations research group. Planners explain the decision in their own words. kint's decision agent and forward deployed engineers (FDEs), engineers who work directly with the planners, turn it into a model. The team keeps deciding.
“an order never goes on two trucks.”
- saidby your plannerIn the words the team already uses.
- written∀o: Σt xo,t = 1As a constraint in the model, which the planner can read back.
same team. better options.
Your planners stay the experts. The difference is what they work with.
three parties. one model.
know the operation
They explain the goal, the rules and the exceptions, the way they would explain them to a new colleague. They check every model before it runs.
writes the model
It turns plain language into rule cards, then into an optimization model. It asks when something is unclear, and a person on your team releases each plan.
checks the math
In the pilot, a team of FDEs builds the one decision with the planners and reviews the model with them. They make sure the model is right and the results hold, so the checking is covered without an in-house OR group. In production, FDEs build the first workflows and join again for each new decision.
the plans your team makes every week.
| Decision | The question kint answers | Problem type |
|---|---|---|
| shifts and machinesRosters with rest periods and qualifications. Jobs with setup times and due dates. | Which order of jobs meets every due date with the fewest changeovers? | production scheduling |
| tours and service callsVehicles, time windows, capacity limits, drivers with their own rules. | Which tours cover all stops in their time windows with the fewest kilometres? | vehicle routing |
| material and budgetLimited resources, many demands: raw material across lines, budget across projects. | Which split of material across lines produces the most with the least waste? | resource allocation |
one decision first.
A pilot on one decision, with your data, measured against how you plan today. If kint cannot improve on it, you will hear that from us first. The pilot runs through the five stages a kint decision goes through.
- connect dataAn export from the ERP or the spreadsheet you plan with today. Read-only, versioned.
- describe the decisionPlanners explain goal, rules and exceptions in their own words. The agent writes them down as rule cards for review.
- build the modelThe agent turns the reviewed rules into a model. kint's FDEs check it with your experts.
- compare scenarioskint's plans next to yours, on the same weeks. You see the difference and the reasons.
- decide with a recordEach plan comes with its binding limit, bound and gap. You choose whether the workflow goes into daily use.
which plan costs your team the most time?
Tell us about it. A short call with kint's FDEs gives an honest answer on whether optimization helps.
- You need
- One decision and an export of the data behind it
- kint brings
- The agent, the solvers and engineers who review the model
- Contact
- hello@kint.pro