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Proposal writing handled by a retrieval engine, with a human signing rather than writing. Aimed at insurance brokers, replacing the spreadsheet that currently holds it together.
In short: Proposal Builder Built for Brokers is a retrieval engine aimed at insurance brokers, covering proposal writing. It scores 79/100 on AltF Ideas, carried by demand (89) and held back by feasibility (61). Typical pricing is $900–$9.0k per customer per year, with a first version reachable in about a quarter for $16k–$43k.
Insurance teams lose proposals rebuilt from scratch that are 80% identical. 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.
Point a retrieval engine at proposal writing, and let people review output instead of producing it. Revenue is flat saas, which suits a buyer who wants the cost to track the value rather than the seat count.
| Total addressable market | $751M |
|---|---|
| Category growth (CAGR) | 13% |
| Annual contract value | $900 – $9.0k |
| Pricing model | Flat SaaS |
| Time to first revenue | 38 days |
| Startup cost to MVP | $16k – $43k |
| Build effort | ~1 quarter |
Retrieval over private documents became cheap enough to run per query. Insurance 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 vertical competitor | Priced and scoped for enterprise accounts, not this segment |
| A spreadsheet | The real incumbent in most of the market, and it is free |
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.
Score problem urgency, willingness to pay, and reachable audience size before writing any code.
→ AltF IdeaLabAsk how they handle this today and what it costs them. If nobody can quantify the pain, the demand score is optimistic.
→ Survey BuilderCheck availability, DNS, and email authentication in one pass so your first outreach lands in an inbox.
→ AltF DomainOpsStand up intake, the review queue, and billing before you build the clever part.
→ AltF Flow