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A narrow retrieval engine scoped to training & competency alone — no platform, no migration, no six-month rollout. Aimed at facilities ops teams, replacing the spreadsheet that currently holds it together.
In short: Facilities Competency Tracker is a retrieval engine aimed at facilities ops managers, covering training & competency. It scores 70/100 on AltF Ideas, carried by monetisation (91) and held back by demand (40). Typical pricing is $3.4k–$72k per customer per year, with a first version reachable in about a month for $5.0k–$13k.
Facilities teams lose certifications that expire before anyone notices. In most facilities businesses this job has never had software written for it. It scales linearly with headcount, so growth makes it worse rather than better.
Point a retrieval engine at training & competency, 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 | $559M |
|---|---|
| Category growth (CAGR) | 11% |
| Annual contract value | $3.4k – $72k |
| Pricing model | Per-outcome |
| Time to first revenue | 79 days |
| Startup cost to MVP | $5.0k – $13k |
| Build effort | ~1 month |
Retrieval over private documents became cheap enough to run per query. Facilities is growing at roughly 14% 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 |
| The incumbent suite | Sells a platform; this job is one neglected module inside it |
Integrations with the incumbent system of record are undocumented and gatekept.
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