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Inventory planning handled by an optimisation engine, with a human signing rather than writing. Aimed at dental clinic admins, replacing the spreadsheet that currently holds it together.
In short: Inventory Planner for Dental, Run by Optimisation is an optimisation engine aimed at dental clinic admins, covering inventory planning. It scores 70/100 on AltF Ideas, carried by demand (96) and held back by timing (23). Typical pricing is $1.6k–$32k per customer per year, with a first version reachable in six to twelve months for $39k–$136k.
Dental teams lose stockouts on the fast movers and cash tied up in the slow ones. Every dental team solves this the same way: someone stays late. It scales linearly with headcount, so growth makes it worse rather than better.
An optimisation engine that handles inventory planning end to end and hands a human the exceptions rather than the queue. Revenue is seat saas, which suits a buyer who wants the cost to track the value rather than the seat count.
| Total addressable market | $1.7B |
|---|---|
| Category growth (CAGR) | 12% |
| Annual contract value | $1.6k – $32k |
| Pricing model | Seat SaaS |
| Time to first revenue | 51 days |
| Startup cost to MVP | $39k – $136k |
| Build effort | 6-12 months |
Solver capacity that once needed a research budget now runs on commodity hardware. Dental is growing at roughly 14% 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 |
| An internal hire | Works until volume doubles, then breaks again |
| A generalist AI tool | No domain grounding, so output needs full human review |
The data you need lives on paper in a back office; digitisation is half the product.
An idea you cannot act on is entertainment. Four concrete steps, wired to tools already running on AltFTool.
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