We're building the future of planning and optimization for Excel users. Our mission is to make enterprise-grade AI accessible to everyone.
Planning and optimization problems are everywhere - from scheduling employees to routing vehicles, assigning tasks to planning maintenance. Yet solving these problems has traditionally required expensive consultants or specialized software.
PlanningPowerTools changes that. We bring enterprise-grade optimization directly into Excel, making it accessible to everyone. No PhD in operations research required. No coding necessary. Just define your problem via JSON, and let AI find the optimal solution.
Founder & Product Owner
AB Advisory & Consulting | Paris, France
Jad Belcaid is a business specialist passionate about making optimization work smarter. After years of working across business operations, digital transformation, and market analysis, he noticed a common challenge: teams struggled to solve complex planning and scheduling problems efficiently without expensive consultants or specialized software.
To solve this, Jad co-created PlanningPowerTools, a powerful optimization platform that lets professionals solve any planning problem directly in Excel without complex setup or coding. By leveraging enterprise-grade Timefold Solver algorithms, PlanningPowerTools makes advanced optimization accessible to everyone.
Today, PlanningPowerTools helps analysts, operations teams, and businesses worldwide solve complex optimization challenges seamlessly, bridging the gap between everyday spreadsheets and enterprise-grade planning solutions.
When he's not exploring new ways to make optimization work better, Jad enjoys spending time outdoors cycling or swimming, or learning a new language.
Throughout his career, Jad witnessed firsthand how planning inefficiencies can hinder organizational growth. From Fortune 500 companies to innovative startups, the same challenge persisted: teams needed better tools to solve complex optimization problems without abandoning their familiar workflows.
Combining his expertise in business operations, digital transformation, and market analysis, Jad developed PlanningPowerTools to address this gap. The result is a platform that empowers Excel users to leverage enterprise-grade optimization algorithms while maintaining their existing workflows.
Today, PlanningPowerTools serves operations professionals, analysts, and businesses worldwide, helping them solve complex planning challenges with unprecedented speed and efficiency.
PlanningPowerTools is powered by Timefold Solver, an open-source constraint satisfaction engine used by Fortune 500 companies worldwide. We've packaged this enterprise-grade technology into an Excel add-in that anyone can use.