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A narrow retrieval engine scoped to knowledge capture alone — no platform, no migration, no six-month rollout. Aimed at fintech cfos, replacing the spreadsheet that currently holds it together.
In short: Fintech Knowledge Base is a retrieval engine aimed at fintech cfos, covering knowledge capture. It scores 72/100 on AltF Ideas, carried by moat (94) and held back by open field (26). Typical pricing is $1.6k–$31k per customer per year, with a first version reachable in about a month for $5.0k–$13k.
Fintech teams lose twenty years of know-how walking out at retirement. A typical fintech operation runs this on people, memory, and a shared spreadsheet. Whoever knows how it works becomes a single point of failure.
A retrieval engine that sits beside the existing system, reads what it already produces, and closes knowledge capture. Revenue is seat saas, which suits a buyer who wants the cost to track the value rather than the seat count.
| Total addressable market | $2.7B |
|---|---|
| Category growth (CAGR) | 18% |
| Annual contract value | $1.6k – $31k |
| Pricing model | Seat SaaS |
| Time to first revenue | 49 days |
| Startup cost to MVP | $5.0k – $13k |
| Build effort | ~1 month |
Retrieval over private documents became cheap enough to run per query. Fintech is growing at roughly 17% 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 |
| 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.
An idea you cannot act on is entertainment. Four concrete steps, wired to tools already running on AltFTool.
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