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Point a retrieval engine at proposal writing, and let people review output instead of producing it. Aimed at industrial services field supervisors, replacing the spreadsheet that currently holds it together.
In short: Proposal Builder Built for Field Supervisors is a retrieval engine aimed at industrial services field supervisors, covering proposal writing. It scores 70/100 on AltF Ideas, carried by open field (93) and held back by monetisation (35). Typical pricing is $900–$19k per customer per year, with a first version reachable in about a quarter for $11k–$36k.
Industrial services teams lose proposals rebuilt from scratch that are 80% identical. Nobody owns this process, which is exactly why it keeps breaking. The error rate is tolerated because measuring it would cost more than the errors.
A retrieval engine that sits beside the existing system, reads what it already produces, and closes proposal writing. Revenue is seat saas, which suits a buyer who wants the cost to track the value rather than the seat count.
| Total addressable market | $258M |
|---|---|
| Category growth (CAGR) | 16% |
| Annual contract value | $900 – $19k |
| Pricing model | Seat SaaS |
| Time to first revenue | 42 days |
| Startup cost to MVP | $11k – $36k |
| Build effort | ~1 quarter |
Retrieval over private documents became cheap enough to run per query. Industrial services is growing at roughly 14% 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 |
| The incumbent suite | Sells a platform; this job is one neglected module inside it |
| A generalist AI tool | No domain grounding, so output needs full human review |
Trust has to be earned before anyone lets this run unsupervised.
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