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A retrieval engine that handles knowledge capture end to end and hands a human the exceptions rather than the queue. Aimed at aviation maintenance leads, built for one person, not a department.
In short: Aviation Knowledge Base on Retrieval is a retrieval engine aimed at aviation maintenance leads, covering knowledge capture. It scores 72/100 on AltF Ideas, carried by moat (96) and held back by monetisation (35). Typical pricing is $600–$7.0k per customer per year, with a first version reachable in a weekend for $2.5k–$8.0k.
Aviation teams lose twenty years of know-how walking out at retirement. Nobody owns this process, which is exactly why it keeps breaking. It scales linearly with headcount, so growth makes it worse rather than better.
A narrow retrieval engine scoped to knowledge capture alone — no platform, no migration, no six-month rollout. Revenue is flat saas, which suits a buyer who wants the cost to track the value rather than the seat count.
| Total addressable market | $620M |
|---|---|
| Category growth (CAGR) | 12% |
| Annual contract value | $600 – $7.0k |
| Pricing model | Flat SaaS |
| Time to first revenue | 42 days |
| Startup cost to MVP | $2.5k – $8.0k |
| Build effort | Weekend |
Retrieval over private documents became cheap enough to run per query. Aviation is growing at roughly 12% a year, and this job has not been re-tooled since it was designed around paper.
| Who | The gap |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| A generalist AI tool | No domain grounding, so output needs full human review |
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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