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An optimisation engine that sits beside the existing system, reads what it already produces, and closes inventory planning. Aimed at restaurants general managers, built for one person, not a department.
In short: Inventory Planner for Restaurants General Managers is an optimisation engine aimed at restaurants general managers, covering inventory planning. It scores 71/100 on AltF Ideas, carried by monetisation (97) and held back by feasibility (24). Typical pricing is $3.9k–$83k per customer per year, with a first version reachable in six to twelve months for $37k–$97k.
Restaurants teams lose stockouts on the fast movers and cash tied up in the slow ones. A typical restaurants operation runs this on people, memory, and a shared spreadsheet. The error rate is tolerated because measuring it would cost more than the errors.
Point an optimisation engine at inventory planning, 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 | $718M |
|---|---|
| Category growth (CAGR) | 16% |
| Annual contract value | $3.9k – $83k |
| Pricing model | Per-outcome |
| Time to first revenue | 68 days |
| Startup cost to MVP | $37k – $97k |
| Build effort | 6-12 months |
Solver capacity that once needed a research budget now runs on commodity hardware. Restaurants 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 offshore back office | Cheaper per hour, but does not scale down to the tail |
| An internal hire | Works until volume doubles, then breaks again |
| The incumbent suite | Sells a platform; this job is one neglected module inside it |
The data you need lives on paper in a back office; digitisation is half the product.
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