From the outside, building a course schedule looks like a simple placement task. In reality it is a classic constraint satisfaction problem: rooms, faculty, time slots, program requirements, and non-overlapping student groups all have to hold at once. At most universities this still runs on sprawling spreadsheets, leans on a single expert's experience, and moves forward through days of trial and error.
That model has three core problems. It is slow: a single term's schedule can take days. It is fragile: because the knowledge lives in one person, the process stalls without them. And it doesn't scale: as courses, sections, and rooms multiply, both the workload and the chance of error grow with it.
Plansoar hands this problem to a deterministic solver instead of a person:
In a live pilot at a foundation university, planning that took 10+ hours by hand dropped to 2.5 minutes with Plansoar. The pilot covered 1,729 courses, 2,924 section records, 205 rooms, 3 campuses, 7 buildings, 14 faculties, 202 programs, and 648 faculty members.
For department heads and planning teams, Plansoar turns term planning into a repeatable process managed from one place. When a constraint changes, the whole schedule can be regenerated in seconds instead of rebuilt from scratch.
For IT and digital-transformation teams, the deterministic core produces an auditable, defensible output and works from existing system data without requiring everything to be entered again.
Plansoar includes direct hotline access to the development team and hands-on onboarding support during institutional setup and data migration. The service-level target is a 4-hour first response on business days for standard requests, and a 1-hour first response with an 8-hour resolution target for critical requests.
The system runs entirely rule-based today; AI support is on the roadmap. Upcoming capabilities include student timetabling, based on each student's course selections, and exam scheduling, with student-conflict prevention, fair invigilation, and room-capacity constraints.
Plansoar takes the most exhausting puzzle of every term off one expert's shoulders and hands it to a deterministic system: 10+ hours of work becomes 2.5 minutes, and an operation that spanned weeks collapses into hours. Plansoar is a product of c3nk Inc.