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A retrieval engine that sits beside the existing system, reads what it already produces, and closes RFP response. Aimed at education registrars, unbundling the one module people actually use.
In short: Education RFP Responder is a retrieval engine aimed at education registrars, covering RFP response. It scores 74/100 on AltF Ideas, carried by timing (92) and held back by open field (42). Typical pricing is $4.4k–$94k per customer per year, with a first version reachable in about a quarter for $13k–$32k.
Education teams lose a 200-question RFP answered by six people over a week. Nobody owns this process, which is exactly why it keeps breaking. Whoever knows how it works becomes a single point of failure.
A retrieval engine that handles RFP response end to end and hands a human the exceptions rather than the queue. Revenue is per-outcome, which suits a buyer who wants the cost to track the value rather than the seat count.
| Total addressable market | $1.7B |
|---|---|
| Category growth (CAGR) | 11% |
| Annual contract value | $4.4k – $94k |
| Pricing model | Per-outcome |
| Time to first revenue | 62 days |
| Startup cost to MVP | $13k – $32k |
| Build effort | ~1 quarter |
Retrieval over private documents became cheap enough to run per query. Education 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 |
| A vertical competitor | Priced and scoped for enterprise accounts, not this segment |
| An offshore back office | Cheaper per hour, but does not scale down to the tail |
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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