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Scheduling handled by an optimisation engine, with a human signing rather than writing. Aimed at freight brokerage dispatchers, proving value before anyone signs anything.
In short: Optimisation-Powered Scheduling for Dispatchers is an optimisation engine aimed at freight brokerage dispatchers, covering scheduling. It scores 71/100 on AltF Ideas, carried by moat (95) and held back by feasibility (29). Typical pricing is $4.8k–$72k per customer per year, with a first version reachable in six to twelve months for $31k–$95k.
Freight brokerage teams lose a calendar rebuilt by hand every time one job slips. A typical freight brokerage operation runs this on people, memory, and a shared spreadsheet. The backlog only surfaces when a customer or an auditor finds it first.
Point an optimisation engine at scheduling, and let people review output instead of producing it. Revenue is data subscription, which suits a buyer who wants the cost to track the value rather than the seat count.
| Total addressable market | $272M |
|---|---|
| Category growth (CAGR) | 14% |
| Annual contract value | $4.8k – $72k |
| Pricing model | Data subscription |
| Time to first revenue | 67 days |
| Startup cost to MVP | $31k – $95k |
| Build effort | 6-12 months |
Solver capacity that once needed a research budget now runs on commodity hardware. Freight brokerage 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 |
| The incumbent suite | Sells a platform; this job is one neglected module inside it |
| A vertical competitor | Priced and scoped for enterprise accounts, not this segment |
Trust has to be earned before anyone lets this run unsupervised.
An idea you cannot act on is entertainment. Four concrete steps, wired to tools already running on AltFTool.
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→ AltF IdeaLabAsk how they handle this today and what it costs them. If nobody can quantify the pain, the demand score is optimistic.
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