Plank

What Plank is

Plank helps organizations solve planning and scheduling problems through mathematical optimization and software consulting. Its web-based Plank Admissions system handles reviewer recruitment, candidate registration, interview scheduling, scoring, and email communication. Candidates, reviewers, and interviewers can register directly, with controls intended to prevent duplicate registrations and overbooked sessions. The system can assign candidates to file reviewers and interviewers using program criteria, and supports traditional, MMI, and MPI interview formats. Programs can customize scoring forms to their rubrics, review scores and flagged concerns, and export rank lists by site for import into CaRMS. Email tools include merge tokens, recipient filters, reusable templates, and delivery of replies and bounce-backs to a regular inbox such as Outlook. The admissions page says files and scores are stored on university servers, with nightly database backups and transaction logging. Plank also offers a free browser-based ranked matching tool that matches people by preference. Its scheduling work includes resident rotation scheduling based on availability and preference surveys, and tutor scheduling from volunteer data and demand. Pricing is available on request.