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Point an optimisation engine at scheduling, and let people review output instead of producing it. Aimed at dental clinic admins, replacing the spreadsheet that currently holds it together.
In short: Automated Scheduling for Dental is an optimisation engine aimed at dental clinic admins, covering scheduling. It scores 72/100 on AltF Ideas, carried by monetisation (95) and held back by feasibility (29). Typical pricing is $4.5k–$97k per customer per year, with a first version reachable in six to twelve months for $32k–$85k.
Dental teams lose a calendar rebuilt by hand every time one job slips. In most dental businesses this job has never had software written for it. It scales linearly with headcount, so growth makes it worse rather than better.
An optimisation engine that handles scheduling end to end and hands a human the exceptions rather than the queue. Revenue is per-outcome, 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) | 12% |
| Annual contract value | $4.5k – $97k |
| Pricing model | Per-outcome |
| Time to first revenue | 80 days |
| Startup cost to MVP | $32k – $85k |
| Build effort | 6-12 months |
Solver capacity that once needed a research budget now runs on commodity hardware. Dental is growing at roughly 14% a year, and this job has not been re-tooled since it was designed around paper.
| Who | The gap |
|---|---|
| A generalist AI tool | No domain grounding, so output needs full human review |
| 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 buying cycle is slower than the build, so runway assumptions matter more than code.
An idea you cannot act on is entertainment. Four concrete steps, wired to tools already running on AltFTool.
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