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Proposal writing handled by a retrieval engine, with a human signing rather than writing. Aimed at freight brokerage brokers, replacing the spreadsheet that currently holds it together.
In short: Proposal Builder for Freight brokerage Brokers is a retrieval engine aimed at freight brokerage brokers, covering proposal writing. It scores 71/100 on AltF Ideas, carried by moat (93) and held back by feasibility (56). Typical pricing is $3.9k–$84k per customer per year, with a first version reachable in about a quarter for $14k–$31k.
Freight brokerage teams lose proposals rebuilt from scratch that are 80% identical. The work sits between two systems that were never designed to talk. Most operators assume this is simply the cost of doing business.
Proposal writing handled by a retrieval engine, with a human signing rather than writing. Revenue is per-outcome, which suits a buyer who wants the cost to track the value rather than the seat count.
| Total addressable market | $825M |
|---|---|
| Category growth (CAGR) | 16% |
| Annual contract value | $3.9k – $84k |
| Pricing model | Per-outcome |
| Time to first revenue | 63 days |
| Startup cost to MVP | $14k – $31k |
| Build effort | ~1 quarter |
Retrieval over private documents became cheap enough to run per query. Freight brokerage is growing at roughly 13% a year, and this job has not been re-tooled since it was designed around paper.
| Who | The gap |
|---|---|
| A spreadsheet | The real incumbent in most of the market, and it is free |
| An internal hire | Works until volume doubles, then breaks again |
| A generalist AI tool | No domain grounding, so output needs full human review |
The data you need lives on paper in a back office; digitisation is half the product.
An idea you cannot act on is entertainment. Four concrete steps, wired to tools already running on AltFTool.
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