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A narrow optimisation engine scoped to inventory planning alone — no platform, no migration, no six-month rollout. Aimed at warehousing ops teams, starting from data the business already produces.
In short: Automated Inventory Planner for Warehousing is an optimisation engine aimed at warehousing ops managers, covering inventory planning. It scores 71/100 on AltF Ideas, carried by monetisation (91) and held back by feasibility (28). Typical pricing is $11k–$166k per customer per year, with a first version reachable in six to twelve months for $37k–$108k.
Warehousing teams lose stockouts on the fast movers and cash tied up in the slow ones. Nobody owns this process, which is exactly why it keeps breaking. The error rate is tolerated because measuring it would cost more than the errors.
Point an optimisation engine at inventory planning, and let people review output instead of producing it. Revenue is managed service, which suits a buyer who wants the cost to track the value rather than the seat count.
| Total addressable market | $1.3B |
|---|---|
| Category growth (CAGR) | 15% |
| Annual contract value | $11k – $166k |
| Pricing model | Managed service |
| Time to first revenue | 87 days |
| Startup cost to MVP | $37k – $108k |
| Build effort | 6-12 months |
Solver capacity that once needed a research budget now runs on commodity hardware. Warehousing is growing at roughly 16% 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 spreadsheet | The real incumbent in most of the market, and it is free |
| A generalist AI tool | No domain grounding, so output needs full human review |
Integrations with the incumbent system of record are undocumented and gatekept.
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