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Scheduling handled by an optimisation engine, with a human signing rather than writing. Aimed at life sciences lab managers, closing the loop while everyone is asleep.
In short: Optimisation Scheduling for Life sciences is an optimisation engine aimed at life sciences lab managers, covering scheduling. It scores 71/100 on AltF Ideas, carried by moat (97) and held back by feasibility (31). Typical pricing is $1.3k–$14k per customer per year, with a first version reachable in six to twelve months for $36k–$95k.
Life sciences teams lose a calendar rebuilt by hand every time one job slips. Nobody owns this process, which is exactly why it keeps breaking. It scales linearly with headcount, so growth makes it worse rather than better.
An optimisation engine that handles scheduling end to end and hands a human the exceptions rather than the queue. Revenue is flat saas, which suits a buyer who wants the cost to track the value rather than the seat count.
| Total addressable market | $2.0B |
|---|---|
| Category growth (CAGR) | 19% |
| Annual contract value | $1.3k – $14k |
| Pricing model | Flat SaaS |
| Time to first revenue | 21 days |
| Startup cost to MVP | $36k – $95k |
| Build effort | 6-12 months |
Solver capacity that once needed a research budget now runs on commodity hardware. Life sciences is growing at roughly 18% a year, and this job has not been re-tooled since it was designed around paper.
| Who | The gap |
|---|---|
| A generalist AI tool | No domain grounding, so output needs full human review |
| 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 data you need lives on paper in a back office; digitisation is half the product.
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