OptilogicSupply chain SaaSBuild from scratch2022 – 2024

A supply-chain vision that needed a product built from the ground up

Optilogic set out to redefine how supply chains are designed. With the vision but no product team to build it, Optilogic brought in Kodius to develop Cosmic Frog from scratch — a cloud-native design tool that has since drawn investors from across the globe.

Collage of Cosmic Frog application screens.
Product · Network optimization
Two screens from Optilogic app, both displaying Cosmic Frog section.
About Optilogic & Cosmic Frog

The new leader in supply chain design software

Optilogic is a startup founded to redefine supply chain design principles and forever change the supply chain management market.

Their newest product is Cosmic Frog.

Cosmic Frog is the only cloud-native supply chain design solution on the market that combines optimization, simulation and a risk engine to provide analysis of cost, service and risk across scenarios — enabling more informed decision making.

Opti risk score and scenario comparison graphs in the Optilogic app.
Build from scratch

Cosmic Frog: a complex supply-chain SaaS, built from the ground up

Production stack
React .NET Core SQL Azure Python
01

One team, scaled as the product grew

The project started with just a few people and grew to a team of around 10 — a team lead, UX/UI designer, and developers — as Cosmic Frog took shape.

Work ran in two-week sprints, with feedback after each one shaping what came next and keeping everyone on the same page.

Optilogic’s UK team worked most closely on Cosmic Frog day to day, with regular meetings bringing in the Utah, USA headquarters.

02

A full product team on hand

Developers

  • Built back-end infrastructure
  • Built APIs
  • Developed management screens
  • Built visual builders

UX/UI designers

  • Created high- and low-fidelity wireframes and visual elements for the best user experience
Two Optilogic app graphs: site risk metric and site geographic risk metric.
03

The hardest part: cloud-native storage at scale

Building a cloud-based storage architecture was the toughest part of the project — the result handles enormous amounts of data and processes it efficiently.

04

Cosmic Frog, ready to scale

Cosmic Frog grew into an intuitive, scalable platform that lets businesses make the most optimal decisions, based on cost, service, and risk.

Screenshot of a Cosmic Frog report featuring multiple charts displaying data analysis and visualizations.
The results

A new era for supply chain management

Cosmic Frog

  • Analyzes the impact and outcomes of hundreds of scenarios and measures risk.
  • Runs on some of the market’s fastest commercial-grade MIP solvers and a cloud backend, fronted by an interface planners can drive without a manual.
  • Flexible enough to adjust to the user’s everyday workflows.
  • Uses hyperscaling technology to run hundreds of models and scenarios in parallel.
Cosmic Frog demo, displaying the interface and features of the software.
Outcome

At the end…

Cosmic Frog has drawn huge interest from companies and raised over $50 million from investors across the globe.

Three colleagues enjoying a coffee break in a comfortable lounge setting.
Testimonial
Kodius was really instrumental to building Cosmic Frog and getting the product to General Availability.

JIM WILSON Product Owner at Optilogic