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A retrieval engine that sits beside the existing system, reads what it already produces, and closes RFP response. Aimed at childcare program directors, surfacing the exposure nobody has priced.
In short: Childcare RFP Responder is a retrieval engine aimed at childcare program directors, covering RFP response. It scores 72/100 on AltF Ideas, carried by monetisation (87) and held back by feasibility (33). Typical pricing is $3.7k–$79k per customer per year, with a first version reachable in six to twelve months for $31k–$82k.
Childcare teams lose a 200-question RFP answered by six people over a week. In most childcare businesses this job has never had software written for it. The error rate is tolerated because measuring it would cost more than the errors.
Point a retrieval engine at RFP response, and let people review output instead of producing it. Revenue is per-outcome, which suits a buyer who wants the cost to track the value rather than the seat count.
| Total addressable market | $336M |
|---|---|
| Category growth (CAGR) | 14% |
| Annual contract value | $3.7k – $79k |
| Pricing model | Per-outcome |
| Time to first revenue | 68 days |
| Startup cost to MVP | $31k – $82k |
| Build effort | 6-12 months |
Retrieval over private documents became cheap enough to run per query. Childcare is growing at roughly 17% 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 vertical competitor | Priced and scoped for enterprise accounts, not this segment |
Trust has to be earned before anyone lets this run unsupervised.
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