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A narrow optimisation engine scoped to inventory planning alone — no platform, no migration, no six-month rollout. Aimed at lending ops teams, catching the error before it becomes a change order.
In short: Inventory Planner Built for Ops Teams is an optimisation engine aimed at lending ops managers, covering inventory planning. It scores 71/100 on AltF Ideas, carried by moat (94) and held back by feasibility (51). Typical pricing is $1.4k–$28k per customer per year, with a first version reachable in six to twelve months for $41k–$142k.
Lending teams lose stockouts on the fast movers and cash tied up in the slow ones. Every lending team solves this the same way: someone stays late. The backlog only surfaces when a customer or an auditor finds it first.
A narrow optimisation engine scoped to inventory planning alone — no platform, no migration, no six-month rollout. Revenue is seat saas, which suits a buyer who wants the cost to track the value rather than the seat count.
| Total addressable market | $2.0B |
|---|---|
| Category growth (CAGR) | 10% |
| Annual contract value | $1.4k – $28k |
| Pricing model | Seat SaaS |
| Time to first revenue | 54 days |
| Startup cost to MVP | $41k – $142k |
| Build effort | 6-12 months |
Solver capacity that once needed a research budget now runs on commodity hardware. Lending is growing at roughly 12% 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 |
| An internal hire | Works until volume doubles, then breaks again |
| A vertical competitor | Priced and scoped for enterprise accounts, not this segment |
Trust has to be earned before anyone lets this run unsupervised.
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