I have to preface my comment by saying I am reasonably technical but not an engineer by any stretch. I find this comment fascinating and it seems to highlight some issues I face in my own organisation (tech/design professional services company). We build apps and platforms for enterprise clients and often struggle with predicting a lot of parts of our software.

I might have a poor understanding of your comment but could you expand on the ideas behind solvers and what they are? What data do they ingest from a company building software and how did the solver you build work (in layman's terms)?

Thank-you!