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An optimisation engine that handles pricing end to end and hands a human the exceptions rather than the queue. Aimed at energy compliance leads, catching the error before it becomes a change order.
In short: Automated Pricing Engine for Energy is an optimisation engine aimed at energy compliance leads, covering pricing. It scores 70/100 on AltF Ideas, carried by demand (83) and held back by open field (41). Typical pricing is $2.5k–$49k per customer per year, with a first version reachable in six to twelve months for $35k–$102k.
Energy teams lose a price list last revised when costs were 30% lower. It is the kind of task that is too small to fund and too costly to ignore. Whoever knows how it works becomes a single point of failure.
A narrow optimisation engine scoped to pricing alone — no platform, no migration, no six-month rollout. Revenue is usage-based, which suits a buyer who wants the cost to track the value rather than the seat count.
| Total addressable market | $1.5B |
|---|---|
| Category growth (CAGR) | 16% |
| Annual contract value | $2.5k – $49k |
| Pricing model | Usage-based |
| Time to first revenue | 49 days |
| Startup cost to MVP | $35k – $102k |
| Build effort | 6-12 months |
Solver capacity that once needed a research budget now runs on commodity hardware. Energy is growing at roughly 18% 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 |
| The incumbent suite | Sells a platform; this job is one neglected module inside it |
Every customer wants their own edge cases encoded, so onboarding cost is the real constraint.
An idea you cannot act on is entertainment. Four concrete steps, wired to tools already running on AltFTool.
Score problem urgency, willingness to pay, and reachable audience size before writing any code.
→ AltF IdeaLabAsk how they handle this today and what it costs them. If nobody can quantify the pain, the demand score is optimistic.
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→ AltF DomainOpsStand up intake, the review queue, and billing before you build the clever part.
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