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Point an optimisation engine at dispatch, and let people review output instead of producing it. Aimed at facilities facilities directors, starting from data the business already produces.
In short: Optimisation-Powered Dispatch for Facilities Directors is an optimisation engine aimed at facilities facilities directors, covering dispatch. It scores 73/100 on AltF Ideas, carried by moat (91) and held back by timing (33). Typical pricing is $2.3k–$46k per customer per year, with a first version reachable in about a quarter for $18k–$57k.
Facilities teams lose routing decisions made from memory at 6am. Every facilities team solves this the same way: someone stays late. The backlog only surfaces when a customer or an auditor finds it first.
Dispatch handled by an optimisation engine, with a human signing rather than writing. Revenue is usage-based, which suits a buyer who wants the cost to track the value rather than the seat count.
| Total addressable market | $359M |
|---|---|
| Category growth (CAGR) | 14% |
| Annual contract value | $2.3k – $46k |
| Pricing model | Usage-based |
| Time to first revenue | 46 days |
| Startup cost to MVP | $18k – $57k |
| Build effort | ~1 quarter |
Solver capacity that once needed a research budget now runs on commodity hardware. Facilities is growing at roughly 14% a year, and this job has not been re-tooled since it was designed around paper.
| Who | The gap |
|---|---|
| A spreadsheet | The real incumbent in most of the market, and it is free |
| A vertical competitor | Priced and scoped for enterprise accounts, not this segment |
| An internal hire | Works until volume doubles, then breaks again |
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