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Training & competency handled by a retrieval engine, with a human signing rather than writing. Aimed at trade schools owner-operators, finding what the inspector would find, first.
In short: Competency Tracker Built for Owner-Operators is a retrieval engine aimed at trade schools owner-operators, covering training & competency. It scores 76/100 on AltF Ideas, carried by open field (95) and held back by feasibility (27). Typical pricing is $3.6k–$77k per customer per year, with a first version reachable in six to twelve months for $35k–$111k.
Trade schools teams lose certifications that expire before anyone notices. 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.
Training & competency handled by a retrieval engine, with a human signing rather than writing. Revenue is per-outcome, which suits a buyer who wants the cost to track the value rather than the seat count.
| Total addressable market | $330M |
|---|---|
| Category growth (CAGR) | 15% |
| Annual contract value | $3.6k – $77k |
| Pricing model | Per-outcome |
| Time to first revenue | 71 days |
| Startup cost to MVP | $35k – $111k |
| Build effort | 6-12 months |
Retrieval over private documents became cheap enough to run per query. Trade schools is growing at roughly 15% a year, and this job has not been re-tooled since it was designed around paper.
| Who | The gap |
|---|---|
| The incumbent suite | Sells a platform; this job is one neglected module inside it |
| An internal hire | Works until volume doubles, then breaks again |
| A generalist AI tool | No domain grounding, so output needs full human review |
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.
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