On this day, 3 years ago, my world fell apart. It was a Thursday. I just finished my second meeting that morning, looked at my inbox and realized it was over. My life’s work was over. OptaPlanner, the popular open source solver we had developed and refined for more than a decade, was going to die. Despite worldwide success on thousands of projects.I curled into the sofa. Two hours later, my wife found me there, still catatonic.This is the story of Timefold AI.This is the story of how I turned a ...