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Point an optimisation engine at maintenance planning, and let people review output instead of producing it. Aimed at auto repair service managers, catching the error before it becomes a change order.
In short: Auto repair Maintenance Planner on Optimisation is an optimisation engine aimed at auto repair service managers, covering maintenance planning. It scores 73/100 on AltF Ideas, carried by demand (95) and held back by feasibility (22). Typical pricing is $8.4k–$126k per customer per year, with a first version reachable in six to twelve months for $43k–$109k.
Auto repair teams lose maintenance done on a calendar rather than on condition. A typical auto repair operation runs this on people, memory, and a shared spreadsheet. The cost is invisible on any P&L line, which is why it never gets fixed.
An optimisation engine that sits beside the existing system, reads what it already produces, and closes maintenance planning. Revenue is managed service, which suits a buyer who wants the cost to track the value rather than the seat count.
| Total addressable market | $441M |
|---|---|
| Category growth (CAGR) | 14% |
| Annual contract value | $8.4k – $126k |
| Pricing model | Managed service |
| Time to first revenue | 71 days |
| Startup cost to MVP | $43k – $109k |
| Build effort | 6-12 months |
Solver capacity that once needed a research budget now runs on commodity hardware. Auto repair is growing at roughly 12% a year, and this job has not been re-tooled since it was designed around paper.
| Who | The gap |
|---|---|
| A spreadsheet | The real incumbent in most of the market, and it is free |
| An internal hire | Works until volume doubles, then breaks again |
| An offshore back office | Cheaper per hour, but does not scale down to the tail |
The data you need lives on paper in a back office; digitisation is half the product.
An idea you cannot act on is entertainment. Four concrete steps, wired to tools already running on AltFTool.
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