Solve production-grade optimization problems.
- Problems companies solve every day
- Full-size data, hard time limit, fixed CPU and memory
- Every solution checked against the business rules
- Ranked on a public leaderboard
4 vans, 220 orders, not enough miles for all. Which van should deliver which orders, and in what order?
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Operations research moves the world.
Crew rostering, network design, container loading, energy dispatch, pricing: the same methods run all of them, and each will get its own competition.
What optimization is worth
$431B+[1]
created by award-winning optimization projects since 1972
$10B+[2]
a year the US power grid could save with better optimization
15%[3]
lower logistics costs for early adopters of AI supply chain planning
41%[4]
of supply chain cost goes to the last mile of delivery
| Organization | Problem | Result | Edelman Award |
|---|---|---|---|
| Intel | Product design through supply chain planning | $25.4B in combined revenue gains and cost cuts since 2009[5] | 2020 |
| UPS | Delivery route optimization (ORION) | $300–400M a year expected; 100M fewer miles driven annually[6] | 2016 |
| Walmart | Truck routing and load planning | $91.5M saved and 33M miles avoided in one fiscal year[7] | 2023 |
| UN World Food Programme | Food basket and supply chain design | More than $50M saved across Syria, Iraq, and Yemen[8] | 2021 |
How a submission is judged
You upload your code, not your answers. We run it on hidden instances under the same limits for everyone, check every constraint, and post the score.
The input and output formats are fixed for every competition, so you only have to think about solution quality and runtime.
- 1Get the problem
- 2Your code runs
- 3Scored and ranked
$ gd submit algorithm.py
Where companies meet people who can solve their problems
Companies bring real problems and review how people solved them. People get practical experience and a record of it that employers can check.
For companies
Hire job-ready optimization talent
- Hire people who have already solved your kind of problem
- See their code, not just their score
- Run a competition on your own problem
Gradient Descent
problems out, solutions back
For talent
Get real-world experience, hands on
- Solve problems companies actually have
- Build a portfolio of ranked, reviewed solutions
- Get hands-on practice before the job
Sources
- [1]INFORMS, INFORMS names six finalists for the 2026 Franz Edelman Award
- [2]FERC, History of optimal power flow and formulations (staff paper, 2012)
- [3]McKinsey & Company, Succeeding in the AI supply-chain revolution (2021)
- [4]Capgemini, Navigating the complex web of last-mile deliveries
- [5]INFORMS, Intel awarded the 2020 INFORMS Edelman Award
- [6]INFORMS, O.R. & Analytics success stories: UPS
- [7]Analytics Magazine, 2023 Edelman Award winner: Walmart uses O.R. to enhance retail truck routing and load planning
- [8]INFORMS, The United Nations World Food Programme awarded the 2021 INFORMS Edelman Award