We develop advanced, scalable solutions and AI-powered decision-making tools to solve complex optimization challenges across industries.
Optimization solutions enhance decision-making, streamline processes, and improve resource efficiency. Tailored, data-driven strategies reduce costs, minimize waste, and drive decarbonization, helping businesses thrive in dynamic environments. By combining mathematical optimization, AI, and advanced computational methods, our approach enables significant and measurable improvements in key performance metrics.
Optimize your supply chain by improving inventory management, shortening lead times, and streamlining operations to boost efficiency, cut costs, and reduce environmental impact.
Optimize production, resources, and equipment to increase throughput and reduce waste while boosting productivity, minimizing downtime, and streamlining workflows for maximum efficiency.
Reduce transportation costs and improve delivery times through advanced route optimization while cutting carbon emissions and enhancing operational efficiency for sustainable logistics operations.
Optimize power grids, enhance energy trading strategies, and improve resource allocation to support smarter decisions, lower operational costs, and adapt to evolving energy market dynamics.
Enhance operations and performance across various industries by improving KPIs and boosting productivity through tailored solutions leading to measurable improvements adaptable to any sector.
Enhance healthcare operations by optimizing resource allocation, patient scheduling, clinical trial management, treatment planning, and staff scheduling, leading to cost reductions and improved patient care.
Enhance profitability by leveraging AI-driven demand forecasting, dynamic pricing, and inventory optimization to accurately meet customer demand, reduce excess inventory, and minimize operational costs.
Optimize flight scheduling, maintenance planning, and mission logistics to enhance efficiency, reduce downtime, and ensure optimal resource allocation in aerospace operations.
Many optimization challenges faced by businesses are fundamentally complex, presenting substantial computational difficulties, and standard algorithms and techniques often fail to scale efficiently to industrial-sized problems.
Mathematical optimization is the science, and operations research is the art, of overcoming these challenges and designing scalable algorithms that compute the best possible solutions to complex business problems.
Better solutions directly translate into measurable business value, where even small improvements can lead to significant operational benefits. They enable better-informed decisions, drive improved KPIs, and foster innovation in your business.
Better algorithms can produce superior solutions and are essential for improving business operations. By investing in the most advanced algorithms, your business can drive greater value and gain a competitive advantage in today’s data-driven world.
We deliver end-to-end, custom-tailored optimization solutions that solve complex business challenges, oferring immediate benefits—enhanced decision-making, cost savings, efficient resource utilization, and reduced emissions. Our unique approach combines advanced mathematical optimization techniques with data-driven methods, earning us industry recognition and awards.
Our optimization algorithms are based on mathematical optimization techniques but also leverage AI methods. They are data-driven and dynamically adapt to the specific optimization problem at hand, delivering exceptional performance tailored to each unique business case.
Our solvers are validated by industry leaders: our advanced production and transportation planning algorithm secured first place in the Airbus x BMW Optimization Challenge, while our logistics optimization algorithm was selected as a finalist in the Renault Group competition.
Our team includes recognized scientists in mathematical optimization, and our solutions are built on solid scientific principles. We approach our customers' problems with the scientific method, ensuring reliable, and rigorously tested solutions that lead to measurable results.
We find it rewarding to solve our customers' complex problems and business challenges. Our clients include renowned organizations such as Huawei Technologies and the UK Ministry of Defence, as well as innovative small and medium-sized businesses across various industries.
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We offer a comprehensive range of services to help companies unlock their full potential using cutting-edge optimization, AI-driven solutions, and quantum computing innovations. Whether you need tailored optimization solutions, strategic consulting, or R&D collaboration, our expertise ensures measurable results and long-term success.
We provide custom optimization solutions tailored to your unique challenges. Our team of experts works closely with your organisation to design and implement strategies that leverage advanced optimization and AI algorithms to maximize efficiency, reduce costs, and enhance performance across your operations.
We help companies harness the power of mathematical optimization and AI to drive better decision-making. Whether you're new to these technologies or looking to scale their application, we provide expert guidance on how to integrate them effectively into your business.
For companies looking to accelerate innovation, partner with us to outsource part of your R&D efforts, and together we’ll create groundbreaking solutions. Our team of experienced computer scientists and algorithm engineers brings fresh, innovative thinking to deliver measurable results.
We help companies prepare for quantum computing and apply it to solve complex business problems. By bridging quantum research with practical applications, we empower businesses to explore new frontiers of computational efficiency across various sectors.
We are a team of optimization experts dedicated to solving the most complex optimization challenges with advanced, data-driven solutions. Our expertise spans across industries, where we deliver scalable, tailored strategies that enhance decision-making, reduce costs, and drive efficiency.
We analyze your business constraints, identifying challenges, objectives, and limitations to build a comprehensive and clear understanding of your optimization challenge.
We construct models that reflect complex real-world systems, such as your logistics network or production flow, creating a robust foundation for algorithmic data processing.
We develop a proof of concept to test the solution's feasibility and effectiveness in a controlled environment, ensuring it meets the required goals and performance standards.
We develop and build the full solution, carefully integrating it into your operations, focusing on scalability, reliability, and long-term impact, as well as improving your essential KPIs.
We deploy the solution live in your business, ensuring seamless integration with existing systems so that it delivers lasting value and adapts to your evolving needs.
Everything is set – enjoy your optimization solution and its benefits! We continuously monitor and refine it, leveraging data insights to ensure long-term value for your business.
We are computer scientists, optimization and AI experts, and software engineers with deep expertise in mathematics, artificial intelligence, optimization, and operations research.
With a strong track record of innovative problem-solving, we specialize in applying advanced algorithmic methods across diverse industries. Our expertise spans academic research, industrial R&D, and production-level software development, enabling us to bridge the gap between theory and real-world applications.
At 4colors Research, we are driven by a passion for science, a commitment to experimentation, and a curiosity for discovering novel solutions. We thrive on tackling complex challenges and delivering efficient, scalable, and impactful optimization solutions.
Founded in 2016 by Marcin Kaminski, 4colors Research is based in Cambridge, UK, and collaborates with customers worldwide.
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