Stride

Project schedules grounded in real resources

Optimized project schedules built on the people, skills and equipment you have. When a project slips, Stride re-plans every project sharing its teams.

Plans built on the people you actually have, and an AI assistant sets it up with you.

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How it works

Turn a project brief into a planning model

Projects come in from the systems you already use; the assistant helps fill the gaps.

Project plans often break where projects meet: two teams counting on the same specialists, or one late delivery that moves every task behind it. Stride schedules all projects and shared resources together, so a plan for one project accounts for the others.

  1. 01

    Bring your data

    Bring project information from your planning and enterprise systems. Task lists, milestones and team assignments from the tools you already use are a good start.

  2. 02

    Build the model

    The AI assistant turns tasks, dependencies and shared resources into a model, and points out the durations or hand-offs your plans leave open.

  3. 03

    Refine the model

    Your team reviews and improves the model. Ask the AI assistant why a task sits where it does, and agree which deadlines are fixed and which can move.

When two projects need the same testing team

Two plans can each look fine and still collide on a shared team. Planning them together finds the order that keeps every milestone.

Illustrative scenario

Each project was planned on its own. The testing team can test one project per week.

  • Project A
  • Project B
  • Milestone
Project A
Project B
Testing team
Design
Build
Test
Spec
Build
Test
A test
B test
A due W7
B due W6
+1 week
uses A’s spare week
If you chooseObvious fixRe-optimized
Testing teamFitsFits
Milestone AOn timeOn time
Milestone B1 week lateOn time
Illustrative example, not customer data.

AI assistant

An assistant from set-up to every re-plan

  • Set up by conversation

    Describe how your work runs in plain language. The assistant drafts the planning model from what you say and the data you bring.

  • Rules you can read

    The model is laid out as rules, resources and priorities that your team can check and correct.

  • Ready for what-if questions

    Later, ask the assistant what-if questions: move a milestone, shift a deadline or lose a team for a week, and see which commitments are at risk.

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What a better plan buys your projects

  • Realistic dates

    Schedules respect real capacity, so you commit to milestones you can keep.

  • Fewer collisions

    Shared teams and equipment are planned across projects, not fought over.

  • Clear trade-offs

    When something must move, you see what each option costs before you decide.

  • Faster replanning

    Change a date or a resource and compare revised plans side by side.

Features built for project portfolios

Stride compares the alternatives against shared-resource and dependency constraints. The project planner chooses which commitments to protect.

  • Dependencies and milestones

    Schedule work in the order required while protecting important deliverables.

  • Shared capacity

    Account for specialists, teams or equipment needed by more than one activity or project.

  • What-if analysis

    Compare new priorities, changed deadlines and resource shortages across projects.

Under the hood

Planning applications run on the 4colors Optimizer

Takt, Roster and Stride run on 4colors optimization algorithms, the family that set new best-known schedules on a public project-scheduling benchmark.

Rules you describe become a model the engine searches within your time budget, so what-if questions return comparable alternatives, not a single plan.

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4colors Optimizer

Original search algorithms, tested on demanding benchmarks and run to your time budget. Also powers the Optimizer for Scheduling, the Optimizer for QUBO and the Quantum Compiler.

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More planning apps

  • Takt

    Production schedules for jobs, machines, changeovers and deadlines, re-planned when a rush order lands.

    Discover Takt

  • Roster

    Rosters that cover every shift with the right skills, fairly, re-planned when someone calls in sick.

    Discover Roster

When project plans compete for resources

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Bring us the projects that compete for one team

Share your current plans and resources, and see what an optimized portfolio schedule does with them.

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