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Maintenance planning handled by an optimisation engine, with a human signing rather than writing. Aimed at facilities ops teams, writing down what only one person knows.
In short: Facilities Maintenance Planner on Optimisation is an optimisation engine aimed at facilities ops managers, covering maintenance planning. It scores 74/100 on AltF Ideas, carried by moat (92) and held back by feasibility (33). Typical pricing is $3.1k–$67k per customer per year, with a first version reachable in six to twelve months for $31k–$77k.
Facilities teams lose maintenance done on a calendar rather than on condition. It is the kind of task that is too small to fund and too costly to ignore. Most operators assume this is simply the cost of doing business.
An optimisation engine that sits beside the existing system, reads what it already produces, and closes maintenance planning. Revenue is per-outcome, which suits a buyer who wants the cost to track the value rather than the seat count.
| Total addressable market | $393M |
|---|---|
| Category growth (CAGR) | 13% |
| Annual contract value | $3.1k – $67k |
| Pricing model | Per-outcome |
| Time to first revenue | 58 days |
| Startup cost to MVP | $31k – $77k |
| Build effort | 6-12 months |
Solver capacity that once needed a research budget now runs on commodity hardware. 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 internal hire | Works until volume doubles, then breaks again |
| The incumbent suite | Sells a platform; this job is one neglected module inside it |
| A generalist AI tool | No domain grounding, so output needs full human review |
The incumbent is a person, and displacing a person is a change-management problem.
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