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A narrow optimisation engine scoped to dispatch alone — no platform, no migration, no six-month rollout. Aimed at freight brokerage ops teams, finding what the inspector would find, first.
In short: Dispatch for Freight brokerage Ops Teams is an optimisation engine aimed at freight brokerage ops managers, covering dispatch. It scores 71/100 on AltF Ideas, carried by monetisation (96) and held back by feasibility (32). Typical pricing is $4.2k–$90k per customer per year, with a first version reachable in six to twelve months for $37k–$119k.
Freight brokerage teams lose routing decisions made from memory at 6am. Nobody owns this process, which is exactly why it keeps breaking. It scales linearly with headcount, so growth makes it worse rather than better.
Dispatch handled by an optimisation 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 | $911M |
|---|---|
| Category growth (CAGR) | 13% |
| Annual contract value | $4.2k – $90k |
| Pricing model | Per-outcome |
| Time to first revenue | 75 days |
| Startup cost to MVP | $37k – $119k |
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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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