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Building Operational Superintelligence.

Haladir is an applied AI product lab for optimal decision-making, working with formal solvers, linear programming models, & LLMs to enable critical operations companies to operate at frontier speed and precision. Today's AI has brought us intelligence. The next frontier is judgement. We apply solver-based methods, SMT/SAT solvers, MILP, operations research, and formal verification to make both RL and AI deployment possible in domains where correctness has never been formally defined. Just as code's internal verifiability unlocked exponential gains in AI software generation, we seek to unlock the same dynamic for larger operational use cases of AI: logistics, supply chains, manufacturing, ERPs and beyond. We define operational superintelligence as AI that consistently makes maximally-optimal operational decisions in complex environments. The first component is speed: continuous decisions that take consultants and analysts weeks to make, in seconds. The second is reliability: every decision is guaranteed to satisfy operational constraints. The third is scope: optimize across thousands of constraints no human or team could possibly reason about.
Active Founders
Jibran Hutchins
Jibran Hutchins
Co-founder & CEO
Co-founder & CEO @ Haladir | Carnegie Mellon University
Quan Huynh
Quan Huynh
Founder
Cofounder @Haladir
Preston Schmittou
Preston Schmittou
Founder
Cofounder @ Haladir
Joseph Tso
Joseph Tso
Founder
Co-founder @ Haladir | CS @ Princeton
Company Launches
Haladir: Building Operational Superintelligence
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TL;DR: Haladir is an AI product lab that combines formal solvers with LLMs to make AI reliable for constrained systems. We turn unreliable model outputs into verifiable, optimal decisions for industries like logistics, critical software, and manufacturing. We are working with one of the leading AI labs to bring our technology to post-training.

Launch Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caPPFAmL8Iw

The Problem

Operationally-complex companies (logistics, supply chain, etc.) need to make thousands of decisions a day under tight, real-world constraints. Even when given ample context, we observe that the top models often fail to understand these constraints when placed in difficult scenarios, providing suboptimal or confidently incorrect responses. Though they excel at individual tasks like coding and data analysis, optimizing across systems with millions of interdependent variables under hard constraints remains beyond what current models can do on their own.

The Solution

Haladir combines formal solvers with LLMs to give models a fundamental understanding of constraints rather than just semantic context. For logistics and supply chain companies, this means routing, scheduling, and resource allocation that AI can reason through rather than guess at.

We build at both the model training layer and the application layer. On the training side, we build solver-based RL environments and data pipelines for frontier labs. On the application side, we build model harnesses that allow deployed agents to operate within constrained, sensitive workflows and make optimal decisions. Decades of development in solvers like Gurobi and SAT/SMT have produced incredibly powerful technologies, but there's a growing gap between these tools and how AI is deployed today. We're here to close that gap.

Read our research: haladir.com/research

The Team

In high school, we published and were cited in IEEE and Elsevier Q1 journals for operations research and machine learning. We left Carnegie Mellon, Princeton, and UVA to build Haladir.

Our Ask

We'd love to talk with you if:

  • You work at a logistics, supply chain, or manufacturing company where AI isn't yet delivering on real decision-making
  • You work at or with frontier AI labs interested in solver-based training environments
  • You know talented people in operations research, formal methods, or applied ML

👉 Contact us at founders@haladir.com

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Haladir
Founded:2025
Batch:Winter 2026
Team Size:4
Status:
Active
Primary Partner:Diana Hu