Built by people who watched dispatchers plan routes by hand
Routelume started in Dallas in 2024. The problem we kept seeing: mid-size delivery operations that had outgrown spreadsheets but couldn't justify enterprise software.
The gap between spreadsheets and enterprise TMS
There is a fleet size where manual planning breaks down. You have eight drivers, 40-60 stops each, time windows to hit, and shift hours to respect. A spreadsheet can't solve that. An enterprise TMS costs more than your entire operations budget and takes six months to implement.
We built Routelume to fill that gap. A real constraint solver, not just a mileage sorter. A dispatcher interface designed for the morning rush, not for a logistics analyst. Pricing that makes sense for a 10-vehicle fleet, not a 500-vehicle operation.
Routelume is bootstrapped and built in Dallas. We grow when our customers' operations get more efficient.
The team behind Routelume
Andre spent eight years building operations software for logistics companies before founding Routelume. He observed that dispatchers at mid-size fleets were solving genuinely hard constraint problems by hand each morning and losing 60-90 minutes every day doing it. He moved to Dallas in 2023 and started Routelume in early 2024.
Priya built combinatorial optimization solvers for supply chain applications before joining Andre at Routelume. Her background is in operations research and constraint programming. She designed the core solver that powers Routelume's route planning and is responsible for the engineering team and infrastructure.
How we build and work
Depth over breadth
We build fewer things and make them work well. Route optimization is hard; we focus on doing it correctly before adding features.
Customer operations first
We measure ourselves by whether our customers' fleets actually run better. That means talking to dispatchers, not just executives.
Honest about limits
Route optimization has edge cases no solver handles perfectly. We document ours. When a plan fails, we tell you why and what to do instead.
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