Hidden Variables Bring us a problem

Bring us the hard one.

We solve hard business problems with math and AI, end to end.

Here’s a small hard one.

One van, eight stops, back to the depot. Find the shortest route.

This board has 20,160 possible routes. A real day with 25 stops has more than there are grains of sand on Earth.

Tap the stops in the order you’d drive them.

Operators who do the math.

Consultants know the business. Data scientists know the math. We’re both, so we finish the job.

BusinessP&L, operations, people

MathematicsOptimization, statistics, AI

We work here

The hard ones.

Nine questions every business asks. Each is a famous math problem in disguise.

  1. Routes, loads and schedules for a whole fleet, rebuilt every morning. The vehicle routing problem

  2. Inventory that follows demand, store by store and day by day. The newsvendor problem

  3. Prices that respond to demand, costs and competitors, with guardrails. Price optimization

  4. Schedules that respect people, rules and budgets, and survive sick days. Constraint scheduling

  5. Forecasts with honest error bars that finance can actually plan on. Probabilistic forecasting

  6. One version of the truth across every system you run. Entity resolution

  7. Early warning on customers and contracts while there’s still time to act. Survival analysis

  8. Invoices, claims and payments that don’t add up, caught automatically. Anomaly detection

  9. Agents that do the routine work, check themselves and ask a person before anything important. Verified AI agents

No. 1The vehicle routing problem

Routes, loads and schedules for a whole fleet, rebuilt every morning.

Sound familiar? Bring it to us

Not on the list? Even better. Tell us about it

The hard part is already built.

We never start from a blank page. Our lab builds its own tools for hard problems, and every one of them has already proven itself on a real business.

  • HV·01

    The solver

    Routes, shifts and prices, optimized under your real rules.

    Solves010304

  • HV·02

    The forecaster

    Demand and cash for the quarters ahead, with honest error bars.

    Solves0205

  • HV·03

    The matcher

    One clean version of the truth across every system you run.

    Solves06

  • HV·04

    The watchdog

    Leaks, fraud and churn, caught before they cost you.

    Solves0708

  • HV·05

    The agents

    AI that reads, drafts and checks its own work, and asks a person before acting.

    Solves09

  • HV·06

    The scorekeeper

    Tracks the number we agreed on, so you can watch it move.

    SolvesAll nine

Exhibit A

We built Cortex.

AI agents with a control system on top, for construction and energy companies. Our toolkit, in production.

Documents checked
100%
every one, not samples
Delays
−32%
on key milestones
Saved
$1.2M
per project, first year
Paperwork
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Bring us the hard one.

Tell us about the problem. We reply within two business days.

Or write to hello@hiddenvariables.xyz