An optimisation engine that sits beside the existing system, reads what it already produces, and closes dispatch. Aimed at travel ops teams, catching the error before it becomes a change order.
In short: Dispatch Built for Ops Teams is an optimisation engine aimed at travel ops managers, covering dispatch. It scores 71/100 on AltF Ideas, carried by demand (92) and held back by feasibility (31). Typical pricing is $3.7k–$98k per customer per year, with a first version reachable in six to twelve months for $42k–$122k.
Travel teams lose routing decisions made from memory at 6am. In most travel businesses this job has never had software written for it. Most operators assume this is simply the cost of doing business.
Point an optimisation engine at dispatch, and let people review output instead of producing it. Revenue is per-vehicle, which suits a buyer who wants the cost to track the value rather than the seat count.
| Total addressable market | $1.2B |
|---|---|
| Category growth (CAGR) | 15% |
| Annual contract value | $3.7k – $98k |
| Pricing model | Per-vehicle |
| Time to first revenue | 74 days |
| Startup cost to MVP | $42k – $122k |
| Build effort | 6-12 months |
Solver capacity that once needed a research budget now runs on commodity hardware. Travel is growing at roughly 15% 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 generalist AI tool | No domain grounding, so output needs full human review |
Every customer wants their own edge cases encoded, so onboarding cost is the real constraint.
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