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An optimisation engine that sits beside the existing system, reads what it already produces, and closes inventory planning. Aimed at dental office managers, holding service constant on a smaller team.
In short: Dental Inventory Planner is an optimisation engine aimed at dental office managers, covering inventory planning. It scores 70/100 on AltF Ideas, carried by moat (92) and held back by timing (32). Typical pricing is $5.4k–$81k per customer per year, with a first version reachable in six to twelve months for $38k–$84k.
Dental teams lose stockouts on the fast movers and cash tied up in the slow ones. In most dental businesses this job has never had software written for it. The cost is invisible on any P&L line, which is why it never gets fixed.
Point an optimisation engine at inventory planning, and let people review output instead of producing it. Revenue is data subscription, which suits a buyer who wants the cost to track the value rather than the seat count.
| Total addressable market | $2.0B |
|---|---|
| Category growth (CAGR) | 17% |
| Annual contract value | $5.4k – $81k |
| Pricing model | Data subscription |
| Time to first revenue | 67 days |
| Startup cost to MVP | $38k – $84k |
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 spreadsheet | The real incumbent in most of the market, and it is free |
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.
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