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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 security services ops teams, replacing the spreadsheet that currently holds it together.
In short: Proposal Builder for Security services, Run by Retrieval is a retrieval engine aimed at security services ops managers, covering proposal writing. It scores 73/100 on AltF Ideas, carried by moat (90) and held back by open field (54). Typical pricing is $900–$10k per customer per year, with a first version reachable in about a month for $5.5k–$18k.
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.
Point a retrieval engine at proposal writing, and let people review output instead of producing it. Revenue is flat saas, which suits a buyer who wants the cost to track the value rather than the seat count.
| Total addressable market | $697M |
|---|---|
| Category growth (CAGR) | 15% |
| Annual contract value | $900 – $10k |
| Pricing model | Flat SaaS |
| Time to first revenue | 41 days |
| Startup cost to MVP | $5.5k – $18k |
| Build effort | ~1 month |
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 |
|---|---|
| The incumbent suite | Sells a platform; this job is one neglected module inside it |
| A spreadsheet | The real incumbent in most of the market, and it is free |
| A generalist AI tool | No domain grounding, so output needs full human review |
Every customer wants their own edge cases encoded, so onboarding cost is the real constraint.
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