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A retrieval engine that sits beside the existing system, reads what it already produces, and closes proposal writing. Aimed at wholesale ops teams, surfacing the exposure nobody has priced.
In short: Proposal Builder for Wholesale Ops Teams is a retrieval engine aimed at wholesale ops managers, covering proposal writing. It scores 73/100 on AltF Ideas, carried by open field (90) and held back by feasibility (46). Typical pricing is $1.2k–$25k per customer per year, with a first version reachable in six to twelve months for $39k–$90k.
Wholesale teams lose proposals rebuilt from scratch that are 80% identical. The work sits between two systems that were never designed to talk. The backlog only surfaces when a customer or an auditor finds it first.
A retrieval engine that handles proposal writing end to end and hands a human the exceptions rather than the queue. Revenue is seat saas, which suits a buyer who wants the cost to track the value rather than the seat count.
| Total addressable market | $651M |
|---|---|
| Category growth (CAGR) | 9% |
| Annual contract value | $1.2k – $25k |
| Pricing model | Seat SaaS |
| Time to first revenue | 52 days |
| Startup cost to MVP | $39k – $90k |
| Build effort | 6-12 months |
Retrieval over private documents became cheap enough to run per query. Wholesale is growing at roughly 11% 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 |
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