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Scheduling handled by an optimisation engine, with a human signing rather than writing. Aimed at freight brokerage ops teams, surfacing the exposure nobody has priced.
In short: Optimisation Scheduling for Freight brokerage is an optimisation engine aimed at freight brokerage ops managers, covering scheduling. It scores 72/100 on AltF Ideas, carried by moat (96) and held back by feasibility (28). Typical pricing is $4.6k–$99k per customer per year, with a first version reachable in six to twelve months for $43k–$146k.
Freight brokerage teams lose a calendar rebuilt by hand every time one job slips. Nobody owns this process, which is exactly why it keeps breaking. The cost is invisible on any P&L line, which is why it never gets fixed.
An optimisation engine that sits beside the existing system, reads what it already produces, and closes scheduling. Revenue is per-outcome, which suits a buyer who wants the cost to track the value rather than the seat count.
| Total addressable market | $670M |
|---|---|
| Category growth (CAGR) | 10% |
| Annual contract value | $4.6k – $99k |
| Pricing model | Per-outcome |
| Time to first revenue | 73 days |
| Startup cost to MVP | $43k – $146k |
| 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 |
|---|---|
| The incumbent suite | Sells a platform; this job is one neglected module inside it |
| A spreadsheet | The real incumbent in most of the market, and it is free |
| An offshore back office | Cheaper per hour, but does not scale down to the tail |
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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