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Point a retrieval engine at risk assessment, and let people review output instead of producing it. Aimed at maritime ops teams, taking the phone queue off a human entirely.
In short: Maritime Risk Scorer on Retrieval is a retrieval engine aimed at maritime ops managers, covering risk assessment. It scores 71/100 on AltF Ideas, carried by moat (92) and held back by demand (26). Typical pricing is $4.0k–$86k per customer per year, with a first version reachable in about a quarter for $14k–$36k.
Maritime teams lose risk scored by whoever is free that afternoon. In most maritime businesses this job has never had software written for it. Most operators assume this is simply the cost of doing business.
Point a retrieval engine at risk assessment, 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 | $213M |
|---|---|
| Category growth (CAGR) | 12% |
| Annual contract value | $4.0k – $86k |
| Pricing model | Per-outcome |
| Time to first revenue | 62 days |
| Startup cost to MVP | $14k – $36k |
| Build effort | ~1 quarter |
Retrieval over private documents became cheap enough to run per query. Maritime 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 spreadsheet | The real incumbent in most of the market, and it is free |
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.
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