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Point a workflow engine at dispatch, and let people review output instead of producing it. Aimed at franchising franchisees, holding service constant on a smaller team.
In short: Automated Dispatch for Franchising is a workflow engine aimed at franchising franchisees, covering dispatch. It scores 70/100 on AltF Ideas, carried by monetisation (88) and held back by timing (43). Typical pricing is $2.2k–$45k per customer per year, with a first version reachable in a weekend for $2.0k–$6.0k.
Franchising teams lose routing decisions made from memory at 6am. Nobody owns this process, which is exactly why it keeps breaking. It scales linearly with headcount, so growth makes it worse rather than better.
Dispatch handled by a workflow engine, with a human signing rather than writing. Revenue is usage-based, which suits a buyer who wants the cost to track the value rather than the seat count.
| Total addressable market | $459M |
|---|---|
| Category growth (CAGR) | 16% |
| Annual contract value | $2.2k – $45k |
| Pricing model | Usage-based |
| Time to first revenue | 33 days |
| Startup cost to MVP | $2.0k – $6.0k |
| Build effort | Weekend |
Connectors exist for systems that were closed five years ago. Franchising is growing at roughly 17% a year, and this job has not been re-tooled since it was designed around paper.
| Who | The gap |
|---|---|
| An offshore back office | Cheaper per hour, but does not scale down to the tail |
| A generalist AI tool | No domain grounding, so output needs full human review |
| An internal hire | Works until volume doubles, then breaks again |
The incumbent is a person, and displacing a person is a change-management problem.
An idea you cannot act on is entertainment. Four concrete steps, wired to tools already running on AltFTool.
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