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Dispatch handled by an optimisation engine, with a human signing rather than writing. Aimed at franchising franchisees, catching the error before it becomes a change order.
In short: Dispatch for Franchising, Run by Optimisation is an optimisation engine aimed at franchising franchisees, covering dispatch. It scores 75/100 on AltF Ideas, carried by demand (91) and held back by feasibility (36). Typical pricing is $4.4k–$66k per customer per year, with a first version reachable in six to twelve months for $41k–$124k.
Franchising teams lose routing decisions made from memory at 6am. In most franchising businesses this job has never had software written for it. The error rate is tolerated because measuring it would cost more than the errors.
An optimisation engine that sits beside the existing system, reads what it already produces, and closes dispatch. Revenue is data subscription, which suits a buyer who wants the cost to track the value rather than the seat count.
| Total addressable market | $1.1B |
|---|---|
| Category growth (CAGR) | 17% |
| Annual contract value | $4.4k – $66k |
| Pricing model | Data subscription |
| Time to first revenue | 61 days |
| Startup cost to MVP | $41k – $124k |
| Build effort | 6-12 months |
Solver capacity that once needed a research budget now runs on commodity hardware. Franchising is growing at roughly 17% a year, and this job has not been re-tooled since it was designed around paper.
| Who | The gap |
|---|---|
| A spreadsheet | The real incumbent in most of the market, and it is free |
| The incumbent suite | Sells a platform; this job is one neglected module inside it |
| An offshore back office | Cheaper per hour, but does not scale down to the tail |
Every customer wants their own edge cases encoded, so onboarding cost is the real constraint.
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