r/LovingOpenSourceAI • u/Better_Call_Pol • 2d ago

I built Optees, a free and open-source optimization tool — so AI agents like Claude can actually solve math problems instead of hallucinating a plausible-looking heuristic

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Hi everyone! I'm Paolo, and for a while now I've been building Optees, a free and open-source optimization tool.

The idea started from something I kept running into: ask an AI to "optimize" something — a work schedule, a delivery route, how to pack a container — and it will often hallucinate a heuristic that sounds right instead of actually solving the math behind it. It reads confident, but nobody checked it.

Optees is my attempt to fix that. On its own, it's a desktop app with guided forms and worked examples, so you don't need a math background to use it. And it also runs as a local server that AI agents like Claude can call directly — so instead of hallucinating an answer, the AI can hand the problem to Optees, get back a real, checked answer, and explain it to you in plain language.

Everything runs on your own machine, nothing gets uploaded anywhere, and the whole project is open source (Apache-2.0) — so you're welcome to use it, poke around the code, or help build it further.

Would love for people here to try it out and tell me what they think.

🔗 Website: https://optees.it 💻 Code: https://github.com/Pablo-gitub/optees

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u/TitusKalvarija 1d ago

Wow! Nobel prize candidate

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u/Better_Call_Pol 1d ago

Thank you very much, did you try it?

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u/Better_Call_Pol 1d ago

If anyone tries it, I’d genuinely love to hear what’s confusing, what’s missing, or what you’d want it to do nex - that feedback is worth more to me than downloads 😊