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A narrow optimisation engine scoped to site selection alone — no platform, no migration, no six-month rollout. Aimed at energy asset managers, so the work stops following people home.
In short: Automated Site Scorer for Energy is an optimisation engine aimed at energy asset managers, covering site selection. It scores 70/100 on AltF Ideas, carried by moat (94) and held back by monetisation (31). Typical pricing is $1.4k–$28k per customer per year, with a first version reachable in about a quarter for $12k–$29k.
Energy teams lose location decisions made on instinct and a drive-by. The work sits between two systems that were never designed to talk. Whoever knows how it works becomes a single point of failure.
An optimisation engine that sits beside the existing system, reads what it already produces, and closes site selection. Revenue is seat saas, which suits a buyer who wants the cost to track the value rather than the seat count.
| Total addressable market | $1.4B |
|---|---|
| Category growth (CAGR) | 21% |
| Annual contract value | $1.4k – $28k |
| Pricing model | Seat SaaS |
| Time to first revenue | 49 days |
| Startup cost to MVP | $12k – $29k |
| Build effort | ~1 quarter |
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 offshore back office | Cheaper per hour, but does not scale down to the tail |
| A vertical competitor | Priced and scoped for enterprise accounts, not this segment |
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.
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.
→ Survey BuilderCheck availability, DNS, and email authentication in one pass so your first outreach lands in an inbox.
→ AltF DomainOpsStand up intake, the review queue, and billing before you build the clever part.
→ AltF Flow