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A narrow optimisation engine scoped to dispatch alone — no platform, no migration, no six-month rollout. Aimed at energy compliance leads, going after the low-value tail everyone else skips.
In short: Optimisation-Powered Dispatch for Compliance Leads is an optimisation engine aimed at energy compliance leads, covering dispatch. It scores 71/100 on AltF Ideas, carried by moat (91) and held back by timing (51). Typical pricing is $2.2k–$44k per customer per year, with a first version reachable in about a quarter for $15k–$40k.
Energy teams lose routing decisions made from memory at 6am. It is the kind of task that is too small to fund and too costly to ignore. The backlog only surfaces when a customer or an auditor finds it first.
Point an optimisation engine at dispatch, and let people review output instead of producing it. Revenue is usage-based, which suits a buyer who wants the cost to track the value rather than the seat count.
| Total addressable market | $1.1B |
|---|---|
| Category growth (CAGR) | 17% |
| Annual contract value | $2.2k – $44k |
| Pricing model | Usage-based |
| Time to first revenue | 33 days |
| Startup cost to MVP | $15k – $40k |
| Build effort | ~1 quarter |
Solver capacity that once needed a research budget now runs on commodity hardware. Energy is growing at roughly 18% 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 offshore back office | Cheaper per hour, but does not scale down to the tail |
| A vertical competitor | Priced and scoped for enterprise accounts, not this segment |
The incumbent is a person, and displacing a person is a change-management problem.
An idea you cannot act on is entertainment. Four concrete steps, wired to tools already running on AltFTool.
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