Pioneer and Market Leader
The Optimization Firm produces BARON, the world's fastest and most powerful MINLP solver, and the ALAMO modeling tool. BARON was the first branch-and-bound solver for global optimization of nonlinear programming (NLP) and mixed-integer nonlinear programming (MINLP) problems, some of the most challenging optimization problems in mathematics.
With over 1,000 customers, The Optimization Firm serves top universities, research institutions, and companies spanning the energy, finance, healthcare, materials, and technology sectors. The Optimization Firm's technology originated at top research universities and is now used in over 60 countries worldwide.
BARON
The world's best complete solver for global optimization. Solves your LP, NLP, MIP, MINLP problems.
ALAMO
Novel analytics tool for building accurate and interpretable models. Model, evaluate, and optimize your data.
Featured Customers
Our goal is to develop and implement novel algorithms that make it possible to solve large-scale problems quickly and efficiently.
Recent Use Cases
Power System Scheduling with BARON
Researchers in India used BARON (in GAMS) to optimize power plant scheduling across three grids, accounting for transmission losses and constraints while consistently finding lower-cost operating schedules than competing methods.
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Process Flowsheet Optimization with ALAMO
A U.S. Department of Energy collaboration used ALAMO to replace intensive reactor simulations with compact models, achieving 100% success across 64 optimization instances and outperforming neural networks with greater speed and efficiency.
Learn More ⟶Featured Sponsorships
The Optimization Firm is a proud sponsor of the following recent and upcoming conferences:
INFORMS Optimization Society Conference (IOS 2026) March 20-22, 2026
Mixed Integer Programming Workshop (MIP 2026) May 18-21, 2026
The 23rd International Conference on the Integration of CP, AI, and OR (CPAIOR 2026) May 26-29, 2026
SIAM Activity Group Test of Time Award (OP 2026) June 2–5, 2026
International Symposium on Mathematical Programming (ISMP 2027) July 25-30, 2027