New — Optimal AI: AI-Enabled Decision Optimization

Cut costs 5–10%.
Improve operations. Empower decision-makers.

Optimal is the world's first platform for the full spectrum of common decision-making needs. Optimal Applications find the single best decision — across procurement, scheduling, routing, pricing and more — with AI-Enabled Decision Optimization.

Every important decision deserves an optimal answer.

5–10%
Typical measurable savings
1 best
Answer, out of billions
Every sector
Manufacturing, logistics, services, retail
Any size
From SMB to enterprise
Announcing Optimal AI

AI-Enabled Decision Optimization.

Optimal Answers has combined its proprietary optimization technology and rich-featured interface with artificial intelligence. The result is the best of AI and optimization — delivering financial and operational benefits wherever applied.

Optimal AI Agents

Decision-making performed as directed by AI prompts and/or Optimal data tables — the rich-featured Optimal interface directing frontier AI programs and selected grounding sources. Typical benefit: 5–10% of the value optimized.

Optimal AI Search Manager

Manage routine, repetitive, and ad hoc AI search prompts and keep the output. Optimal retrieves information as directed and stores it in easily accessed solution tables — publication, title, date, summary, classification, and link.

AI Management, solved

Testing indicates Optimal AI is the AI-management answer companies and users have been seeking: AI where it helps, mathematical optimization where accuracy matters.

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The problem

Guessing
is expensive.

Gut feel
Experienced, but blind to the choices you'll never consider.
What-if spreadsheets
One scenario at a time — and roughly 90% of spreadsheets contain errors.
AI Hallucinations
Confident answers, but not guaranteed to be accurate.
How it works

Three steps to the best answer.

Optimal uses AI where it helps — and corrects it with mathematical optimization so the answer is proven, not guessed.

01
Frame the decision

Optimization is about goals (usually min cost or max profit), variables (what can change), and constraints (the rules). We map yours.

02
Solve for optimal

A tailored optimization engine — augmented by AI where it helps, corrected by math where it matters — searches every valid choice and returns the single best.

03
Save or earn more

Savings — or profit improvement — show up on the P&L. Answers your team already understand are stored in the interface.

Optimal Applications

Every decision, optimized.

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

Procurement

Buy at minimum cost the right things at the right quantities, prices, and times.

Scheduling

Every shift, machine, and person — 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

Stock at ideal inventory levels, by location, applying complex BOMs rules including disassembly and reassembly steps.

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
The Optimal Advantage

The Optimal Advantage.

Power.

Optimal mathematics optimize larger and more complex problems than possible with other means.

Ease-of-use.

The Optimal interface facilitates data management and integration with other IT systems.

Deployment.

Optimal Applications work as standalone applications, integrated with other IT systems, or embedded technology in third-party software.

Representative Engagements

Typical results and quotes.

These results and quotes reflect typical experiences with Optimal Applications. Figures are aggregate — no specific customer is named.

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

Millions in savings across multiple plants and hundreds of SKUs — annual subscription cost paid back in a few days.

Our planners were able to use Optimal to identify purchases and inventory utilization that would otherwise never have been tried.

Procurement Director
Logistics
Shipping optimization
8%
reduction in trucks

Increased load utilization of over 100 trucks to nearly 100%.

Optimized in minutes routes from multiple source locations to multiple destination locations that previously were unsatisfactory after days of work.

Shipping Manager
Sales Realization
Product mix & order fulfillment
5%
gross margin lift

Maximized yield with an enterprise model of purchases against over 1,000 SKUs sold.

Stopped were arguments based on gut feel; optimization settles it. Plus, unfilled orders fell by two-thirds.

Operations Lead
We couldn't believe the savings, but in all reviews the optimizations were confirmed as correct.
Schedule Manager
We had a recipe for a simple food product using cheap ingredients, but I agreed to the Savings Analysis. The BOM savings were a multiple of that targeted, while meeting the same label and quality!
Food Scientist
The program is easy to use. Import utilities enabled rapid database construction. Optimization savings followed.
Operations Analyst
The API and spreadsheet data-exchange utilities enabled leveraging data in other IT systems and returning optimized solutions to those systems for execution.
IT Director
30-second calculator

What could you save?

Move the slider, pick a decision area, and see a defensible estimate — based on savings rates Optimal customers actually achieve. No email required.

  • Ranges reflect real deployments across manufacturing, logistics, services, and retail.
  • Your numbers stay in your browser — nothing is sent.
  • For a tailored analysis using your data, hit "Prove my payback" below.
$500k$1.0M$5.0M$25M$100M$500M
Decision area
Typical annual savings rate
$300k $600k
Midpoint $450k · 612% of $5.0M in procurement & sourcing.
Prove this against my numbers
Among all possibilities, the single best choice.That's what "optimized" actually means.

The Savings Challenge: put your toughest decision in front of Optimal and see what a proven-optimal answer is worth.

What will your savings be?

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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What we stand for

Reinventing decision-making.

Driving Principle
Every important decision deserves an optimal answer.
Mission
Improving decision optimization throughout business, government, and personal lives.
Known For
Reinventing decision-making.
Product
Optimal — the world's first platform for the full spectrum of common decision-making needs.
Technology
Optimal AI — AI-Enabled Decision Optimization.
References

More about Optimal.

Company.

Who we are, how we started, and why every Optimal engagement is measured in savings.

Prove My Savings
Team.

The people behind Optimal — decades of applied optimization across manufacturing, logistics, and services.

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