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An optimisation engine that handles dispatch end to end and hands a human the exceptions rather than the queue. Aimed at freight brokerage dispatchers, taking the phone queue off a human entirely.
In short: Dispatch Built for Dispatchers is an optimisation engine aimed at freight brokerage dispatchers, covering dispatch. It scores 74/100 on AltF Ideas, carried by moat (95) and held back by feasibility (21). Typical pricing is $3.6k–$77k per customer per year, with a first version reachable in six to twelve months for $43k–$139k.
Freight brokerage teams lose routing decisions made from memory at 6am. It is the kind of task that is too small to fund and too costly to ignore. The backlog only surfaces when a customer or an auditor finds it first.
Point an optimisation engine at dispatch, 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 | $592M |
|---|---|
| Category growth (CAGR) | 15% |
| Annual contract value | $3.6k – $77k |
| Pricing model | Per-outcome |
| Time to first revenue | 62 days |
| Startup cost to MVP | $43k – $139k |
| Build effort | 6-12 months |
Solver capacity that once needed a research budget now runs on commodity hardware. Freight brokerage is growing at roughly 13% a year, and this job has not been re-tooled since it was designed around paper.
| Who | The gap |
|---|---|
| A vertical competitor | Priced and scoped for enterprise accounts, not this segment |
| A spreadsheet | The real incumbent in most of the market, and it is free |
| An internal hire | Works until volume doubles, then breaks again |
Accuracy is unforgiving here — one wrong output costs more than the subscription.
An idea you cannot act on is entertainment. Four concrete steps, wired to tools already running on AltFTool.
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→ AltF IdeaLabAsk how they handle this today and what it costs them. If nobody can quantify the pain, the demand score is optimistic.
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