OPTIMIZATION
THE HEART OF EVERY IMPORTANT DECISION
When you're deciding which routes your delivery trucks should take, that's optimization. When you're scheduling shifts for 10,000 employees, that's optimization. When you're allocating budget across departments, that's optimization. Most companies are doing it on spreadsheets. They're leaving millions on the table.
WHAT IS OPTIMIZATION
The mathematics behind your most complex decisions
Optimization is the mathematical discipline of finding the best solution from a vast set of possible alternatives. It's what happens when you move beyond intuition and spreadsheets to solve complex decisions with mathematical precision.
Think about it: every time your company makes a planning decision (routing vehicles, scheduling workers, allocating inventory, pricing products), you're choosing from thousands or millions of possible options. Most organizations do this manually, using experience and rough heuristics.
That's the opportunity. Optimization uses advanced mathematics to systematically explore those alternatives and find provably better solutions. Not just 5% better. Often 20-40% better on cost, efficiency, or revenue.
Why it matters now
- Your competitors are doing this. The cost gap is widening.
- Modern algorithms (quantum-inspired, AI-enhanced) solve problems that were impossible five years ago.
- Every operational inefficiency compounds across the entire organization.
- The math doesn't lie. You're either optimizing or you're not.
Real talk: If you're still using spreadsheets for planning decisions that involve hundreds of variables and constraints, you are no doubt leaving money on the table. Let us help you find it.
Some examples
Logistics
Which routes should 500 trucks take to deliver 10,000 packages with time windows, capacity limits, and driver schedules? That's a trillion+ possible combinations. Optimization finds the best one.
Workforce
How do you schedule 1,000 employees across multiple locations with varying skills, shift preferences, and labor laws? Optimization balances all constraints to minimize cost and maximize coverage.
Resource Allocation
How should you allocate limited budget, equipment, or production capacity across competing priorities? Optimization finds the mix that maximizes ROI under real-world constraints.
YOUR OPTIMIZATION JOURNEY
We meet you where you are
Whether you're just discovering optimization or scaling enterprise-wide capabilities, we have solutions designed for your stage of maturity. Most companies fall into one of three phases.
Where are you on your optimization journey?
Select your stage to see how we can help
DOES THIS SOUND LIKE YOU?
"We have recurring inefficiencies, delays, or capacity issues, but we haven't connected them to optimization yet."
"We have planning or scheduling issues but no idea how optimization could help."
YOUR PROFILE
No one in the company understands optimization or knows what it is. They don't realize their challenges could be solved mathematically.
KEY INSIGHT
You're aware that optimization might add value but can't structure or formalize the problem yet.
HOW WE HELP AT THIS STAGE
Ready to move forward?
PROBLEM TYPES
Common optimization challenges
Most optimization problems fit into one of these categories. Understanding which type you're facing is the first step to finding the right solution.
Plan
Build schedules and operating plans that use limited resources efficiently
Move
Optimize how things flow through networks: people, products, or vehicles
Choose
Pick the best mix of decisions under tradeoffs like cost, performance, and risk
Adapt
Make better decisions repeatedly as the world changes in real time
HOW WE WORK
From problem to production
Every optimization engagement follows a proven path. We've refined this approach across dozens of enterprise deployments.
Problem Discovery
We work with you to understand your problem in depth: the decisions being made, the constraints you face, and the data you have available.
Model & Prototype
Our experts formulate the mathematical model and build a working prototype. We test on your data and iterate until we're confident in the approach.
Deploy & Scale
We integrate the solution into your systems, train your team, and ensure everything runs reliably at scale.
WHY STRANGEWORKS
The best optimization experts in the world
Real problems, real results
Fortune 500 companies trust us with production optimization. 10-30% improvements in cost and efficiency.
Proven across industries
Logistics, manufacturing, energy, finance, and defense. Decades of combined OR expertise.
Embedded, not outsourced
We join your team, write code, deploy systems, and transfer knowledge. Real capability, not slide decks.
95%+
of engagements lead to follow-on work
8+
years in quantum and optimization
40+
technology partners in our network
Access to cutting-edge tech
40+ solver technologies including Gurobi, CPLEX, D-Wave, quantum annealers, and our proprietary HybridSolver orchestration engine.
Expert network
Tap into our syndicate of PhD researchers, domain specialists, and practitioners who have solved similar problems before.
Deploy anywhere
Cloud, on-premises, air-gapped, or at the edge. We build for your security and infrastructure requirements.
THE FUTURE
Quantum is coming. We're ready.
Here's what most people don't know: Strangeworks started as a quantum computing company. We've been building quantum infrastructure and working with quantum hardware since 2018.
Today, we deliver value using classical and quantum-inspired techniques because that's what works right now. But quantum computers will eventually solve certain optimization problems exponentially faster than classical systems. When that inflection point arrives, we'll be ready.
By working with us, you're covered for both today and tomorrow. You get world-class optimization results now using the best available technology. And when quantum advantage becomes real for your use case, you're already positioned with the team that understands both the math and the hardware.
Let's talk about your optimization problem.
Tell us what you're trying to solve. We'll help you understand if optimization can help, what approach makes sense, and how to get started.