Decision Intelligence · Supply Chain

Beyond dashboards. Into optimal decisions.

This is a live walkthrough of what we build for F&B operations teams. Real data, real constraints, real Linear Program — watch the solver close a $40k gap that traditional planning misses every year.

Pyomo + HiGHS LPGurobi-grade math10 products · 6 ingredients12-month horizonAWS / GCP / Azure ready
$85M
Annual revenue
10
Product lines
$40k
LP profit gain
<2s
Solve time
Cascade Foods & Beverages (synthetic demo dataset)

02 · The company

Meet Cascade Foods

A mid-sized F&B manufacturer in the Pacific Northwest. Ten product lines, six raw materials, one planning team deciding each month: how much to buy, when, and how much to produce.

Lemonade
69% margin · $8.5/case
Hot Cocoa Mix
62% margin · $14/case
Sports Drink
70% margin · $9/case
Orange Juice
67% margin · $11.5/case
Granola Bars
69% margin · $8/case
Fruit Jam
64% margin · $15.5/case
Iced Tea
83% margin · $5.5/case
Oatmeal
79% margin · $5/case
Fruit Punch
68% margin · $9.5/case
Energy Drink
73% margin · $11/case
Six raw materials
Sugar
Citric Acid
Cocoa Powder
Oats
Fruit Concentrate
Electrolyte Mix

03 · Explore the data

Four views. One complex system.

Before the optimizer, understand what it's working with. Click any tab to explore the demand landscape, ingredient prices, what goes into each product, and the capacity picture.

Monthly demand (cases/month) for all 10 products. Notice the hard split: summer beverages vs winter comfort foods.
Lemonade
Hot Cocoa Mix
Sports Drink
Orange Juice
Granola Bars
Fruit Jam
Iced Tea
Oatmeal
Fruit Punch
Energy Drink
Peak: Iced Tea & Lemonade hit 19k cases in Jul-Aug. Peak: Oatmeal & Hot Cocoa hit 22k cases in Dec-Jan. The same factory, same budget, serving opposite seasonal profiles.

04 · The hidden problem

A $40k gap hiding in plain sight.

25%
Cocoa Powder price premium in July vs October

The traditional planning approach: buy ingredients when you need them. Rational, simple, wrong — when ingredient prices follow seasonal cycles that are out of phase with product demand cycles.

Cocoa Powder peaks at $3.30/kg in August. Hot Cocoa demand peaks at 12,600 cases in December.
A just-in-time buyer pays the peak price. A forward-buyer pays October's $2.90/kg and holds inventory.
Same pattern in Fruit Concentrate (cheap in summer, expensive in winter) and Oats (cheap in autumn harvest).
The LP finds all three price cycles simultaneously and builds an optimal purchasing schedule.
Price vs demand phase mismatch
Price peak: Aug
Demand peak: Dec
Cocoa Powder price index (left axis, rebased to 100) vs Hot Cocoa Mix demand (right axis, cases). The gap between August price peak and December demand peak is the forward-buying window the LP exploits.

05 · The optimizer

Clearmind Analytics
Decision Intelligence · Supply Chain

This was Cascade Foods. Now imagine it on your data.

We build and deploy production-ready LP and MILP optimization models for operations teams. From demand planning to procurement to production scheduling — running on AWS, GCP, or Azure.

No deck. No pitch. 45 minutes on your actual planning problem.

Deployment
# Local test
pip install fastapi uvicorn pyomo highspy
uvicorn api:app --reload --port 8000

# Cloud (AWS ECS / GCP Cloud Run / Azure Container Apps)
# See Dockerfile + deploy-gcp.sh / deploy-azure.sh / aws-ecs.yml

# Update API_URL in lib/constants.ts before deploying

This page works as a static file with zero dependencies. The live solver only runs on Re-run clicks.

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