What White Space Solutions does

White Space Solutions (operating as WhiteSpace) is a Netherlands-based, private AI software and professional services company founded in 2019 and headquartered in The Hague. The firm builds an AI-powered decision-support platform that combines evolutionary algorithms, mixed-integer linear programming (MILP), and human-in-the-loop interfaces to address complex planning, scheduling, and resource allocation challenges. Its core platforms include AIM (Artificial Intelligence for Maturation), jointly developed with Equinor for upstream oil and gas field development and well planning; AIS (AI-Assisted Scheduling), used for maintenance, logistics, vessel, helicopter, and healthcare scheduling; and Tanseeq, a full-stack containerized planning platform developed with Petroleum Development Oman. The product surface extends across more than twenty solutions covering field development planning, decommissioning, rig and vessel scheduling, maintenance, hospital staff and OR scheduling, brewery capacity planning, offshore wind design, green project screening, and CO2 logistics resilience. WhiteSpace generates revenue through recurring software licensing and configuration engagements sold via direct enterprise sales, with multi-year contracts and a co-creation deployment model; pricing is not publicly disclosed. The customer base is anchored by international and national oil companies (Equinor, Shell, ADNOC, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, Petrobras, PDO, CNOOC, Petoro, Repsol, Neptune Energy, NAM, Petrogas, Dragon Oil, Aker Solutions, Brunei Shell Petroleum) alongside selected deployments in healthcare (Haga Ziekenhuis) and FMCG (Heineken), with documented operations in at least seven countries across Europe, the Middle East, South America, and Asia-Pacific. The company is privately held with no disclosed institutional funding or parent company, holds ISO 27001 certification, and received the Equinor Technology Award in 2025 for the AIM solution.

Name

White Space Solutions

Legal name

WhiteSpace

Website

https://whitespacesolutions.eu

Company type

Private

Founded year

2019

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

WhiteSpace Solutions builds an AI-powered decision-support platform that applies evolutionary algorithms and MILP optimization to complex planning and scheduling challenges in oil and gas, energy transition, healthcare, and FMCG, serving major enterprise clients through co-creation deployments and multi-year contracts.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

AI Planning and Decision Optimization Software

NAICS

Computer Systems Design and Related Services (5415), Computer Systems Design and Related Services (54151), Computer Systems Design Services (541512)

SIC

Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370), Services-Computer Programming Services (7371), Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

AI/ML Engineering & Model Development Services (BPAEAHAF)

Keywords

• AI decision support
• Field development planning
• AI-assisted scheduling
• Resource optimization software
• Enterprise planning platform

Headquarters

HQ city

The Hague

HQ country

Netherlands

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. AI-powered Planning Software: Licensing and deployment of AI-assisted planning tools and platforms (AIM, AIS, Tanseeq) to enterprise clients for complex decision-making in energy, healthcare, and industrial sectors. Solutions are configured and deployed alongside client teams.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

White Space Solutions builds AI-powered decision-support software that optimizes complex planning, scheduling, and resource allocation for enterprise clients in oil & gas, renewables, healthcare, and FMCG. Its flagship platforms — AIM for field development and well planning and AIS for AI-assisted scheduling — combine evolutionary algorithms and MILP optimization with human-in-the-loop interfaces to evaluate millions of scenarios in minutes and deliver quantified outcomes such as CAPEX savings, faster cycles, and higher crew utilization.

Product overview

WhiteSpace Solutions offers an AI-powered decision intelligence platform with modular components that combines advanced algorithms, domain logic, and human-centric interfaces to transform complex planning decisions into confident action. The core platform includes AIM (Artificial Intelligence for Maturation) for field development and well planning optimization, and AIS (AI-Assisted Scheduling) for resource scheduling and logistics optimization. These are complemented by specialized solution applications including maintenance planning, vessel/rig/helicopter logistics optimization, hospital resource scheduling (staff, beds, operating rooms), energy transition solutions (windfarm design, green project screening, offshore electrification), and decommissioning strategy tools. The architecture is configurable and scalable, allowing rapid deployment tailored to specific industry workflows with GenAI-assisted configuration. Clients span oil & gas (Equinor, Shell, ADNOC, PDO, Petrobas, ConocoPhillips, CNOOC, Neptune Energy, Petoro), healthcare (Haga Ziekenhuis), FMCG (Heineken), and energy sectors.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• AIM (Artificial Intelligence for Maturation): Joint AI solution developed with Equinor for field development planning, exploring well trajectories, template configurations, and pipeline routing options
• Tanseeq

Products and services

• AIM (Artificial Intelligence for Maturation) AI-powered decision platform that explores millions of well, layout, and routing options in hours rather than months using evolutionary algorithms and mixed-integer linear programming for upstream oil & gas field development.
• AIS (AI-Assisted Scheduling) AI-assisted scheduling platform that evaluates thousands of scheduling combinations in minutes, optimizing task sequencing, batching, and resource utilization while respecting operational constraints.
• AIM Concept Screening Sub-module of AIM that rapidly screens field development options by identifying which targets can be reached from all possible surface or seabed locations and optimizing pipeline and umbilical routing.
• AIM Well Planning Transforms infill well planning in mature fields by exploring the full space of well trajectories across all slot-target combinations with automated drilling and subsurface constraint checks.
• AIM FDP (Field Development Planning) Optimizes onshore and offshore field development plans for cost, risk, and confidence by exploring millions of development options and revealing hidden trade-offs.
• Tanseeq Full-stack AI-assisted planning platform developed with PDO for automated trajectory generation, surface pad location optimization, and field development planning; containerized and API-connected to client data infrastructure.
• Maintenance Planning Solution AI-assisted maintenance scheduling tool that integrates with SAP to import work orders, prioritize tasks, and match them against available crews and skills for industrial maintenance teams.
• Vessel Planning Optimisation Fact-based vessel scheduling tool that automatically generates optimal 14-day schedules balancing operational priorities, gas production, and platform access windows within weather and sea condition constraints.
• Staff Scheduling AI-assisted hospital staff scheduling tool that automatically creates monthly schedules matching 50+ employees to tasks while respecting contract hours, skill sets, and availability.
• Bed Capacity Optimisation AI-assisted bed allocation tool that optimizes assignment of rooms and beds across hospital departments using daily demand forecasts and room configurations.
• Operation Room Scheduling AI-assisted scheduling tool that automatically generates operating room schedules within hospital rules and constraints, balancing requests from multiple departments.
• Helicopter Flight Planning AI-assisted flight planning tool that generates optimized monthly helicopter schedules based on forecasted demand and constraints of helicopter availability, helideck access, and maintenance windows.
• Walk to Work Planning AI-assisted planning algorithm for walk-to-work maintenance campaigns that generates optimized schedules for vessels, helicopters, and vendors across offshore installations.
• Rig Sequence Planning AI-assisted drilling sequence planning tool that generates and optimizes rig sequences across multiple business drivers including cost, new reserves, lifecycle value, and exploration balance.
• Strategic Capacity Planning Strategic capacity planning tool that systematically explores options across brewery networks, evaluating capacity strategies against demand uncertainties to identify robust investment plans.
• Offshore Windfarm Design AI-assisted windfarm design optimization tool that evaluates hundreds of thousands of layout options, factoring in turbine placement, wake effects, foundation types, and cable routing.
• Green Project Screening AI-assisted screening tool for integrated renewable energy concepts combining wind, solar, hydrogen, and ammonia that evaluates millions of configuration combinations in days.
• Cessation of Production Strategy AI-assisted P&A planning tool with detailed economic model that optimizes start time and sequence for plug and abandonment scenarios under oil price and production uncertainty.
• Decommissioning Strategy AI-assisted decision support approach that frames decommissioning challenges as an optimization game, exploring hundreds of thousands of sequences across cost, seismic risk, and flexibility drivers.

Quantifiable outcome

• $100M+ in client value created through better, faster decisions
• +10 more outcomes

Named customers21 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration3 records

AI capability4 records

Feature5 records

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered exploratory and flagship.

• Sustainability Software Provider (Life Cycle Assessments)exploratoryStrategic or Co-development PartnerWhiteSpace is collaborating with a sustainability software provider to explore how machine learning can bring speed and clarity to traditional life-cycle assessment models. The proof of concept tests whether a data-driven optimiser can accurately predict environmental impact across product portfolios.
• Equinor Subsurface Excellence and Digital UnitflagshipStrategic or Co-development PartnerJoint development of AIM (Artificial Intelligence for Maturation) solution for field development planning. Developed specifically for Equinor's Johan Sverdrup Phase 3 project, the solution has been expanded for broader adoption across Equinor and interest from other operators.

Scale indicators8 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Tachyus: Oil & gas-focused AI/optimization software for reservoir management and operations — closely comparable to WhiteSpace's upstream optimization use cases (well planning, field development, production).
• Beyond Limits: AI software company focused on industrial and energy customers (oil & gas, utilities, healthcare) combining machine learning with human-like reasoning — directly overlaps with WhiteSpace's enterprise AI/optimization positioning.
• Cosmo Tech: Decision intelligence platform provider for asset-intensive industries (energy, transport, manufacturing) using hybrid AI/digital-twin optimization — directly comparable to WhiteSpace's AIM/AIS approach and target verticals.
• Uptake Technologies: Industrial AI platform focused on asset-intensive operators (energy, manufacturing, rail) for predictive maintenance and operations optimization — direct peer in industrial AI for planning and asset performance.
• SparkCognition: AI solutions for industrial and energy customers including predictive maintenance and asset optimization — directly comparable in customer base and AI-for-industrial-operations use cases.

Broad incumbents

• AVEVA (Schneider Electric): Industrial software platform spanning engineering, operations, and decision support for energy and manufacturing — broad incumbent competing in the same planning/optimization category with a much larger footprint.
• Palantir Technologies: Data analytics and decision-support platform widely adopted by oil & gas majors and healthcare systems — broader incumbent offering overlapping planning/optimization capabilities across WhiteSpace's target verticals.
• C3.ai: Enterprise AI application platform with deep energy vertical coverage — broader portfolio than WhiteSpace but competes for the same enterprise AI planning/optimization budget in oil & gas and adjacent industries.
• Rockwell Automation: Industrial automation and software (FTOptix, FactoryTalk) for manufacturing and process industries — broad incumbent offering scheduling and optimization capabilities that overlap with WhiteSpace's industrial use cases.
• Aspen Technology (Emerson): Process optimization and asset performance software for energy and industrial customers, now part of Emerson — broader incumbent with overlapping field development, scheduling, and operations optimization capabilities.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

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