Strangeworks AURA

Built to solve.
Made to matter.

Aura is the proprietary toolset we use to help our team solve your complex optimization challenges better, faster, and smarter. From precise definition to production deployment, our focus remains on your outcome.

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OUTCOMES

What solved looks like.

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Lufthansa

Aircraft Gate Scheduling

100x

Faster Gate Reallocation

Any ops team member can optimize gate assignments and aircraft movements in real time. No optimization background needed to use it.

Gate scheduling demo

Working on something like this?

Tell us what you're trying to solve. We'll show you what a production solution could look like for your specific challenge.

HOW WE WORK

Here's how we get there.

Every engagement runs through five stages. Our team works through Aura alongside yours, from the first conversation to a production system built for the environment you already run, and then keeps the system running as your business evolves.

01Identify

Surface the problem worth solving.

Not every inefficiency is worth optimizing. We start with an open conversation about where your time, cost, or constraints are biting hardest, then narrow to the problems with the highest impact and the most tractable path. You leave this stage with a shortlist that earns the next step.

  • Discovery-first conversations with our team
  • Impact sizing across candidate problems
  • No-pressure assessment, free to walk away
  • Shortlist of problems ranked by fit and value
Opportunity identification workspace
02Define

Understand the problem exactly.

Working with your team, we'll build a complete, structured problem definition. We close gaps fast and deliver a quantified impact analysis: what the inefficiency is costing you today, and what it's worth to fix, before any significant commitment.

  • Guided discovery with our specialists
  • Gap and completeness scoring
  • Data shaping and synthetic data
  • Quantified impact analysis
Discovery session + impact report
03Solve

Build the right solution for it.

Our specialists, using Aura's modeling stack, classify the problem, select the right mathematical structure, and pick the best solver or solver combination from our vast compute catalog. Everything gets validated in a live sandbox with your team before anything ships.

  • PhD-level specialists on every engagement
  • Automatic problem classification
  • Ideal solver matching
  • Live sandbox validation
  • Full formulation transparency with your team
Modeling workspace + sandbox
04Deploy

Fit to your environment.

We deploy the system into the environment you already run: ERP, WMS, TMS, custom API, whatever it takes. Operators get a plain-language dashboard. We line up integrations, data flows, and access so everything just works on Monday morning.

  • Custom deployment (SaaS, private cloud, on-prem)
  • Enterprise system integrations
  • Operator dashboard
  • Exception handling and alerting
  • Go-live support with our team
Operator dashboard + integrations
05Run

Keep it learning and serving.

Go-live isn't the end. The deployed system continuously watches itself: detecting when the model needs adjustment, coordinating the necessary changes, validating the result, and escalating intelligently to our team when the problem has fundamentally shifted. No re-engagement from scratch. The system evolves with you, our team still in the loop.

  • Continuous drift and performance monitoring
  • Autonomous adjustment within validated bounds
  • Result validation before anything reaches production
  • Intelligent escalation when the problem fundamentally shifts
  • Re-entry to Define without starting over
Live operations + monitoring

A LIVING DEPLOYMENT

Easily adjusted. You never start over.

Aura keeps the deployed system learning: watching for drift, coordinating adjustments, validating results, and escalating to our team when the problem has fundamentally shifted. The model evolves with the business instead of aging out of it.

WHAT CHANGES

Better outcomes. Faster delivery.
Systems that actually run.

Big, hairy optimization problems rarely fit off-the-shelf software. Here's what changes when our experts work them with you through Aura.

FOR YOUR BUSINESS

Know the value before you commit.

You get a quantified impact analysis showing what the inefficiency is costing and what solving it is worth, before any significant commitment.

A production system, not a report.

Every engagement ends with something that works in your environment. Not a notebook. Not a PDF. Something operators can run on Monday morning.

Your model keeps up when the business changes.

When conditions shift, we re-enter Define together with full context from the existing system. No new engagement from scratch. It evolves with you.

Ongoing partnership, not one-and-done.

Our team stays in the loop after go-live. The model adapts, the integrations evolve, and problems that surface next quarter get handled with the context of everything that came before.

FOR YOUR TEAM

No handoff. Same team, start to finish.

The team that defines the problem is the team that models it and ships it. The production gap that breaks most optimization projects doesn't exist here.

Deep optimization expertise, on tap.

PhD-level optimization specialists on every engagement. No need to hire or stand up a specialized modeling team to work a problem this hard.

Built to your environment, not a generic shell.

Aura is the base. We adapt it to your systems, link your data, add tools fit to your unique problem, and last-mile configure it until it fits.

Your data scientists focus on domain, not formulation grind.

We bring the optimization expertise. Your team brings the domain knowledge and data judgment. One strong data scientist on your side partners with a full optimization bench on ours.

WHO'S IT FOR

We meet you where you are.

THE DECISION MAKER

VP Operations · COO · Director of Supply Chain · Director of Planning

Know the value before you commit.

Get a quantified impact analysis before the spend begins. And when the business changes, the system changes with it. No starting over.

THE OPERATIONS LEADER

Plant Manager · Head of Operations · Director of Planning · Ops Program Lead

A system your team can actually run.

Operators get a plain-language dashboard and integrations fit to your environment. Exceptions surface. Conditions change. The model adapts with our team in the loop.

THE TECHNICAL PARTNER

Data Scientist · OR Analyst · Advanced Analytics Lead · Quant Analyst

Our optimization bench, your domain.

You bring the data and the domain judgment. We bring the formulation, the solver choice, and the deployment muscle. You partner with an optimization team you don't have to hire.

NOT JUST GPT

This isn't AI assistance. It's expertise, at work.

A general AI tool can write optimization code. That's a fraction of the job. Selecting the right formulation, matching it to the right compute, validating it, and deploying it into the environment you already run: that's the rest. Our team does all of it, with Aura as the proprietary platform we use to do it, because optimization judgment can't be replicated by prompting a foundation model.

Solver agnostic by design

Every other vendor has a solver to sell. We pick whatever's mathematically best for your problem: classical MIP, quantum-inspired, HPC, or hybrid. No agenda, just the right answer.

PhD-level optimization, on every engagement

Problem classification. Formulation selection. Solver matching. Outcome judgment. Our internal specialists work every engagement through Aura. Not something you can prompt your way into.

End-to-end, not a point tool

Discovery through deployment in one continuous engagement. No handoffs, no separate project per phase. The team that defines the problem is the team that ships it.

Custom fit, not off-the-shelf

Aura is the base. We adapt it to your data, your systems, and the unique shape of your problem. Last-mile configured, built for problems that don't have an off-the-shelf answer.

FIND YOUR PATH

What would you like to solve?

No required starting point. Tell us where you are and we'll show you how our team and Aura can move you further.

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PATH ONE

I have a defined problem.

You know what you want to optimize. You need a team that can structure it precisely, build and validate the model, and deploy it into your existing systems. That's the engagement we run best. Start to finish.

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PATH TWO

I have a business challenge.

Something's inefficient. You're not sure yet how to frame it as an optimization problem. We start with a discovery phase through Aura to surface and quantify the opportunity, then walk you through what solving it would actually look like before you commit.

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PATH THREE

I have a system that's drifting.

You already have an optimization system in production and it's no longer matching reality. We can step in, re-enter Define with full context of what you have, and adapt the model to where the business is now.

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PATH FOUR

Show me first.

You want to see what an engagement actually looks like before any conversation about fit. We'll walk you through a past problem: how Define built the problem definition, how Model selected and validated the formulation, and how Deploy fit it into the customer's environment.

Solve something hard.

Tell us about the problem. We'll show you what an engagement with our team and Aura can do with it.