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A narrow optimisation engine scoped to pricing alone — no platform, no migration, no six-month rollout. Aimed at auto repair owner-operators, starting from data the business already produces.
In short: Pricing Engine for Auto repair, Run by Optimisation is an optimisation engine aimed at auto repair owner-operators, covering pricing. It scores 70/100 on AltF Ideas, carried by monetisation (93) and held back by feasibility (24). Typical pricing is $3.8k–$82k per customer per year, with a first version reachable in six to twelve months for $30k–$77k.
Auto repair teams lose a price list last revised when costs were 30% lower. In most auto repair businesses this job has never had software written for it. The error rate is tolerated because measuring it would cost more than the errors.
An optimisation engine that handles pricing end to end and hands a human the exceptions rather than the queue. Revenue is per-outcome, which suits a buyer who wants the cost to track the value rather than the seat count.
| Total addressable market | $588M |
|---|---|
| Category growth (CAGR) | 12% |
| Annual contract value | $3.8k – $82k |
| Pricing model | Per-outcome |
| Time to first revenue | 81 days |
| Startup cost to MVP | $30k – $77k |
| Build effort | 6-12 months |
Solver capacity that once needed a research budget now runs on commodity hardware. Auto repair is growing at roughly 12% 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 internal hire | Works until volume doubles, then breaks again |
Accuracy is unforgiving here — one wrong output costs more than the subscription.
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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