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A narrow retrieval engine scoped to knowledge capture alone — no platform, no migration, no six-month rollout. Aimed at professional services project managers, replacing the spreadsheet that currently holds it together.
In short: Professional services Knowledge Base on Retrieval is a retrieval engine aimed at professional services project managers, covering knowledge capture. It scores 73/100 on AltF Ideas, carried by timing (91) and held back by feasibility (48). Typical pricing is $4.9k–$74k per customer per year, with a first version reachable in six to twelve months for $39k–$108k.
Professional services teams lose twenty years of know-how walking out at retirement. A typical professional services operation runs this on people, memory, and a shared spreadsheet. Whoever knows how it works becomes a single point of failure.
A narrow retrieval engine scoped to knowledge capture alone — no platform, no migration, no six-month rollout. Revenue is data subscription, which suits a buyer who wants the cost to track the value rather than the seat count.
| Total addressable market | $1.1B |
|---|---|
| Category growth (CAGR) | 14% |
| Annual contract value | $4.9k – $74k |
| Pricing model | Data subscription |
| Time to first revenue | 52 days |
| Startup cost to MVP | $39k – $108k |
| Build effort | 6-12 months |
Retrieval over private documents became cheap enough to run per query. Professional services 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 offshore back office | Cheaper per hour, but does not scale down to the tail |
| A generalist AI tool | No domain grounding, so output needs full human review |
| A spreadsheet | The real incumbent in most of the market, and it is free |
The buying cycle is slower than the build, so runway assumptions matter more than code.
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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→ AltF DomainOpsStand up intake, the review queue, and billing before you build the clever part.
→ AltF Flow