OpEra GTM brain

OpEra offers an AI decision engine for planning, scheduling, allocation and routing in factories, warehouses and fleets.

category

Operations decision optimization

market profile

  • text: Physical operations teams make linked production, inventory and delivery decisions, often using spreadsheets or generic tools.
  • text: Established planning suites also cover production planning and scheduling, creating a crowded enterprise software market.

personas

  • title: VP of supply chain
    pains:
    • Planning inventory and production across sites requires balancing interdependent constraints
    • Disruption forces planners to revisit plans manually
  • title: Production planning director
    pains:
    • Must decide what runs when with limited capacity and staff
    • Schedules must reflect real factory constraints instead of average assumptions
  • title: Logistics or fleet operations leader
    pains:
    • Allocation and routing decisions compete for limited transport capacity
    • Manual coordination across warehouses makes reprioritization difficult

icp

  • text: Manufacturers with recurring production planning or resource scheduling decisions; target revenue and staff size are not published.
  • text: Warehouse networks and fleet operators with recurring order allocation and routing decisions.

message pillars

  • text: Use an AI engine to support operational decisions.
  • text: Apply decision support to industrial production.
  • text: Address warehousing and fleet decisions too.

objections

  • objection: Our ERP already plans production.
    response: Compare one scheduling decision with the existing process, measuring feasibility, planner time and integration effort.
  • objection: Our plant constraints are too specific for generic AI.
    response: Ask for a pilot using actual operational constraints and evaluate whether planners accept its recommendations.

competitors

  • name: Kinaxis
    why: Established supply chain planning and scheduling provider.
  • name: o9 Solutions
    why: Integrated supply chain planning and decision support alternative.
  • name: Blue Yonder
    why: Enterprise suite covering production and supply chain planning.

influencers

  • name: Hindy Rossignol
    url: https://www.ycombinator.com/founders/hindy-rossignol
    why: Co-founder and CEO with operations research and machine learning background.

keywords

  • production scheduling optimization
  • AI supply chain planning
  • warehouse order allocation
  • fleet route optimization
  • factory decision intelligence
  • operations research software

voice

  • Concise
  • Operations-focused

signals

  • text: A manufacturer is replacing spreadsheets for capacity and production planning.
  • text: An operator is redesigning warehouse allocation or fleet routing.

pricing

model: unknown

motion

sales_led

confidence

low

Founders

  • name: Hindy Rossignol
    title: Founder/CEO
    role: CEO
    bio: Co-founder & CEO at OpEra (YC F26), the AI decision engine for factories, warehouses and fleets. Ex-McKinsey Machine Learning Engineer at McKinsey & Company. Ex-MIT research in agentic AI for fusion reactor design. MS in Operations Research from MIT. BSc in Machine Learning from UCL and NUS. Random fact: Ex-Universal Music signed artist and semi-finalist of The Voice.
  • name: Bernardo Chalita
    title: Founder/CTO
    role: CTO
    bio: Co-founder & CTO at OpEra (YC F26), the AI decision engine for factories, warehouses and fleets. MS in Operations Research from MIT. BSc in Industrial Engineering from Georgia Tech. Ex-AI Research Scientist at BMW. Ex-Operations Research Scientist at Sanofi. Ex-Investments Analyst at J.P. Morgan. Random fact: Marathoner and triathlete.

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