A narrow retrieval engine scoped to training & competency alone — no platform, no migration, no six-month rollout. Aimed at insurance underwriters, finding what the inspector would find, first.
In short: Insurance Competency Tracker on Retrieval is a retrieval engine aimed at insurance underwriters, covering training & competency. It scores 73/100 on AltF Ideas, carried by moat (93) and held back by open field (40). Typical pricing is $5.1k–$109k per customer per year, with a first version reachable in six to twelve months for $34k–$89k.
Insurance teams lose certifications that expire before anyone notices. The work sits between two systems that were never designed to talk. The error rate is tolerated because measuring it would cost more than the errors.
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 | $1.9B |
|---|---|
| Category growth (CAGR) | 13% |
| Annual contract value | $5.1k – $109k |
| Pricing model | Per-outcome |
| Time to first revenue | 80 days |
| Startup cost to MVP | $34k – $89k |
| Build effort | 6-12 months |
Retrieval over private documents became cheap enough to run per query. Insurance is growing at roughly 13% a year, and this job has not been re-tooled since it was designed around paper.
| Who | The gap |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| A spreadsheet | The real incumbent in most of the market, and it is free |
Trust has to be earned before anyone lets this run unsupervised.
An idea you cannot act on is entertainment. Four concrete steps, wired to tools already running on AltFTool.
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