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Point an optimisation engine at pricing, and let people review output instead of producing it. Aimed at facilities facilities directors, closing the loop while everyone is asleep.
In short: Facilities Pricing Engine on Optimisation is an optimisation engine aimed at facilities facilities directors, covering pricing. It scores 70/100 on AltF Ideas, carried by moat (91) and held back by feasibility (26). Typical pricing is $1.7k–$34k per customer per year, with a first version reachable in six to twelve months for $38k–$123k.
Facilities teams lose a price list last revised when costs were 30% lower. 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.
A narrow optimisation engine scoped to pricing alone — no platform, no migration, no six-month rollout. Revenue is usage-based, which suits a buyer who wants the cost to track the value rather than the seat count.
| Total addressable market | $233M |
|---|---|
| Category growth (CAGR) | 15% |
| Annual contract value | $1.7k – $34k |
| Pricing model | Usage-based |
| Time to first revenue | 47 days |
| Startup cost to MVP | $38k – $123k |
| 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 |
|---|---|
| A vertical competitor | Priced and scoped for enterprise accounts, not this segment |
| An internal hire | Works until volume doubles, then breaks again |
| A generalist AI tool | No domain grounding, so output needs full human review |
Trust has to be earned before anyone lets this run unsupervised.
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