Overview
Based in Ghent and part of the Wintercircus ecosystem, Timefold builds constraint-based AI planning tools that optimize complex scheduling problems. These include vehicle routing, employee shift planning, appointment scheduling, and any domain where many variables need to be balanced against each other simultaneously.
The company's technology has roots in OptaPlanner, a widely used open-source constraint solving engine. Timefold brings that capability to a modern SaaS product aimed at logistics operators, healthcare schedulers, and field service companies.
Planning optimization is a technically deep category where even marginal improvements translate directly to cost savings at scale, making the business case for AI-driven tools straightforward for operations-heavy industries.
Key people
In the news
- Timefold is not Yet Another Solver Company. Nor is it another vehicle routing REST API. Today, we're unveiling our generational leap. To bring Operations Research mainstream. Meet our Model Builder: prd.timefold.ai An assistant to build any scheduling REST API in an afternoon. From scheduling satellites, airplanes, container ships, trains, trucks and assembly lines to... your local volleyball competition. It can solve it. It's not just another LLM code generator. It minimizes code generation. Timefold Solver and Platform do the
- Today is a BIG day for Timefold. We are releasing our super powerful scheduling and modeling assistant. This ties back to the dream that Geoffrey De Smet and I had since the very beginning of Timefold to make scheduling technology within reach of every company on the planet! Free the world from wasteful scheduling 🙏 🌎 Whether you are a seasoned software developer, product manager, CIO, COO, scheduler or analyst, ... we are offering you the tools to get a better grip on your operations and scheduling problem. And offer true
- Couldn't be more proud to welcome Timefold as the latest addition to our growing Deloitte portfolio of Joint Go-to-Market partnerships with start/scale-ups. Belgian technology. Global ambition. 🌎 Time to conquer the world together, Maarten Vandenbroucke & Geoffrey De Smet. 🚀 #DeloitteScaleUpEcosystem Kevin Van der Plas Steven De Ridder Lidia Belevitch
- I am already using it daily to solve real-word cases. It's amazing! The secret sauce? It only generates the 5% domain specific code (the normal part). Everything else (the rocket science) is handled by Timefold Solver and Timefold Platform. So you can build a high-quality, maintenance-friendly scheduling model in afternoon, fully tailored to your business.
- Super excited to be partnering with Deloitte Belgium. Timefold brings exceptionally strong scheduling functionality to the world of Field Services. Together we can really make an impact 🙏 Thank you Steven De Ridder, Kevin Van der Plas and Anaïs De Boulle for your trust. Let's go! 🚀
- On this rainy Friday morning (true Belgian autumn weather 🍂🌧️) I'm sharing something truly exciting! At Timefold, we're taking scheduling optimization to an entirely new level. We've taken our time to get this right. And for good reason: we have some seriously proud engineers in this house! 😎 But now we're ready to reveal what I believe is a quantum leap in how scheduling solutions are built on our Timefold / OptaPlanner technology stack. Imagine capturing the expertise, experience, and problem-solving intuition of our brightest
- Only 2 more weeks until Tectonic... I will have the honor and the pleasure to discuss Belgium's tech future with Minister Vincent Van Peteghem. I'm grateful that the Minister is willing to show up for the +1000 entrepreneurs, enterprise leaders and investors at Tectonic. Belgium has the potential to become a relevant player in Europe as demonstrated by the recent announcements of Aikido Security and TechWolf, as well as the growth stories from a new generation of champions like Tekst, Chift API, WARREN, Conveo, Timefold,
- Thank you Renewi NL | BE and VIL for having We.repair as the keynote of your Logistics Roadtrip today in LOGIVILLE. Always a good moment to share what is moving and shaking circular business in Belgium and Europe. I highlighted the role of technology in scaling circular business models, and was happy to see amazing demos of amazing tech companies like Timefold Sixth Generation and Start it Accelerate | @KBC colleagues Feldspar driving agentic AI in scheduling, orderintake and inbound logistics. Katrien Dauwe Karen De Baets ♻️ 💚 ♻️
Open roles
- Platform Backend EngineerWavre · Oct 15, 2026
Backers
Smartfin
Belgian VC firm focused on tech and deep tech, founded and led by Jurgen Ingels.
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