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A narrow retrieval engine scoped to proposal writing alone — no platform, no migration, no six-month rollout. Aimed at security services field supervisors, charging only when it actually works.
In short: Proposal Builder Built for Field Supervisors is a retrieval engine aimed at security services field supervisors, covering proposal writing. It scores 77/100 on AltF Ideas, carried by monetisation (91) and held back by open field (54). Typical pricing is $8.4k–$127k per customer per year, with a first version reachable in about a quarter for $14k–$33k.
Security services teams lose proposals rebuilt from scratch that are 80% identical. In most security services businesses this job has never had software written for it. The error rate is tolerated because measuring it would cost more than the errors.
A narrow retrieval engine scoped to proposal writing alone — no platform, no migration, no six-month rollout. Revenue is managed service, which suits a buyer who wants the cost to track the value rather than the seat count.
| Total addressable market | $196M |
|---|---|
| Category growth (CAGR) | 18% |
| Annual contract value | $8.4k – $127k |
| Pricing model | Managed service |
| Time to first revenue | 86 days |
| Startup cost to MVP | $14k – $33k |
| Build effort | ~1 quarter |
Retrieval over private documents became cheap enough to run per query. Security services is growing at roughly 15% a year, and this job has not been re-tooled since it was designed around paper.
| Who | The gap |
|---|---|
| An internal hire | Works until volume doubles, then breaks again |
| 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 |
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.
→ 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