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I built an AI company to save my open source project
The story of Timefold: how we turned a doomed open source project into a fast-growing PlanningAI company.
By 2012 my hobby project had grown into a software library with deep tech algorithms for vehicle routing problems (VRP), employee rostering, job shop scheduling, and many other Operations Research challenges. After that meeting, Thomas called Maarten - a serial entrepreneur mastermind - and told him “I’ve just heard an interesting pitch from a technical guy, but this is not investment ready.” So we created REST APIs for common planning problems - such as Field Service Routing and Employee Shift Scheduling - and deployed them as PlanningAI models on our platform:
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