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Proposal writing handled by a retrieval engine, with a human signing rather than writing. Aimed at recruiting recruiters, built for one person, not a department.
In short: Proposal Builder for Recruiting Recruiters is a retrieval engine aimed at recruiting recruiters, covering proposal writing. It scores 72/100 on AltF Ideas, carried by timing (88) and held back by open field (31). Typical pricing is $1.1k–$23k per customer per year, with a first version reachable in six to twelve months for $34k–$110k.
Recruiting teams lose proposals rebuilt from scratch that are 80% identical. A typical recruiting operation runs this on people, memory, and a shared spreadsheet. 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 seat saas, which suits a buyer who wants the cost to track the value rather than the seat count.
| Total addressable market | $1.3B |
|---|---|
| Category growth (CAGR) | 17% |
| Annual contract value | $1.1k – $23k |
| Pricing model | Seat SaaS |
| Time to first revenue | 43 days |
| Startup cost to MVP | $34k – $110k |
| Build effort | 6-12 months |
Retrieval over private documents became cheap enough to run per query. Recruiting 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 |
| A generalist AI tool | No domain grounding, so output needs full human review |
| A vertical competitor | Priced and scoped for enterprise accounts, not this segment |
The incumbent is a person, and displacing a person is a change-management problem.
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