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Maintenance planning handled by an optimisation engine, with a human signing rather than writing. Aimed at logistics fleet owners, closing the loop while everyone is asleep.
In short: Logistics Maintenance Planner on Optimisation is an optimisation engine aimed at logistics fleet owners, covering maintenance planning. It scores 71/100 on AltF Ideas, carried by moat (95) and held back by feasibility (35). Typical pricing is $11k–$170k per customer per year, with a first version reachable in six to twelve months for $38k–$133k.
Logistics teams lose maintenance done on a calendar rather than on condition. Nobody owns this process, which is exactly why it keeps breaking. Whoever knows how it works becomes a single point of failure.
An optimisation engine that handles maintenance planning end to end and hands a human the exceptions rather than the queue. Revenue is managed service, which suits a buyer who wants the cost to track the value rather than the seat count.
| Total addressable market | $1.2B |
|---|---|
| Category growth (CAGR) | 12% |
| Annual contract value | $11k – $170k |
| Pricing model | Managed service |
| Time to first revenue | 67 days |
| Startup cost to MVP | $38k – $133k |
| Build effort | 6-12 months |
Solver capacity that once needed a research budget now runs on commodity hardware. Logistics is growing at roughly 15% 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 |
Every customer wants their own edge cases encoded, so onboarding cost is the real constraint.
An idea you cannot act on is entertainment. Four concrete steps, wired to tools already running on AltFTool.
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