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Point a retrieval engine at risk assessment, and let people review output instead of producing it. Aimed at franchising franchisees, replacing the spreadsheet that currently holds it together.
In short: Franchising Risk Scorer is a retrieval engine aimed at franchising franchisees, covering risk assessment. It scores 71/100 on AltF Ideas, carried by moat (90) and held back by demand (48). Typical pricing is $1.7k–$34k per customer per year, with a first version reachable in about a quarter for $14k–$43k.
Franchising teams lose risk scored by whoever is free that afternoon. A typical franchising operation runs this on people, memory, and a shared spreadsheet. Most operators assume this is simply the cost of doing business.
A retrieval engine that sits beside the existing system, reads what it already produces, and closes risk assessment. Revenue is per-location, which suits a buyer who wants the cost to track the value rather than the seat count.
| Total addressable market | $257M |
|---|---|
| Category growth (CAGR) | 16% |
| Annual contract value | $1.7k – $34k |
| Pricing model | Per-location |
| Time to first revenue | 42 days |
| Startup cost to MVP | $14k – $43k |
| Build effort | ~1 quarter |
Retrieval over private documents became cheap enough to run per query. Franchising is growing at roughly 17% a year, and this job has not been re-tooled since it was designed around paper.
| Who | The gap |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| A vertical competitor | Priced and scoped for enterprise accounts, not this segment |
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.
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