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A retrieval engine that handles proposal writing end to end and hands a human the exceptions rather than the queue. Aimed at aviation maintenance leads, finding what the inspector would find, first.
In short: Proposal Builder Built for Maintenance Leads is a retrieval engine aimed at aviation maintenance leads, covering proposal writing. It scores 71/100 on AltF Ideas, carried by open field (95) and held back by feasibility (47). Typical pricing is $3.1k–$67k per customer per year, with a first version reachable in six to twelve months for $39k–$122k.
Aviation teams lose proposals rebuilt from scratch that are 80% identical. In most aviation businesses this job has never had software written for it. Whoever knows how it works becomes a single point of failure.
Point a retrieval engine at proposal writing, and let people review output instead of producing it. Revenue is per-outcome, which suits a buyer who wants the cost to track the value rather than the seat count.
| Total addressable market | $659M |
|---|---|
| Category growth (CAGR) | 12% |
| Annual contract value | $3.1k – $67k |
| Pricing model | Per-outcome |
| Time to first revenue | 65 days |
| Startup cost to MVP | $39k – $122k |
| Build effort | 6-12 months |
Retrieval over private documents became cheap enough to run per query. Aviation is growing at roughly 12% a year, and this job has not been re-tooled since it was designed around paper.
| Who | The gap |
|---|---|
| A vertical competitor | Priced and scoped for enterprise accounts, not this segment |
| A generalist AI tool | No domain grounding, so output needs full human review |
| An internal hire | Works until volume doubles, then breaks again |
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