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Point an optimisation engine at inventory planning, and let people review output instead of producing it. Aimed at freight brokerage brokers, surfacing the exposure nobody has priced.
In short: Inventory Planner Built for Brokers is an optimisation engine aimed at freight brokerage brokers, covering inventory planning. It scores 70/100 on AltF Ideas, carried by demand (93) and held back by feasibility (25). Typical pricing is $8.7k–$131k per customer per year, with a first version reachable in six to twelve months for $37k–$100k.
Freight brokerage teams lose stockouts on the fast movers and cash tied up in the slow ones. Nobody owns this process, which is exactly why it keeps breaking. It scales linearly with headcount, so growth makes it worse rather than better.
Inventory planning handled by an optimisation engine, with a human signing rather than writing. Revenue is managed service, which suits a buyer who wants the cost to track the value rather than the seat count.
| Total addressable market | $945M |
|---|---|
| Category growth (CAGR) | 11% |
| Annual contract value | $8.7k – $131k |
| Pricing model | Managed service |
| Time to first revenue | 70 days |
| Startup cost to MVP | $37k – $100k |
| Build effort | 6-12 months |
Solver capacity that once needed a research budget now runs on commodity hardware. Freight brokerage is growing at roughly 13% 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 |
| An offshore back office | Cheaper per hour, but does not scale down to the tail |
| A vertical competitor | Priced and scoped for enterprise accounts, not this segment |
The buying cycle is slower than the build, so runway assumptions matter more than code.
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