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A retrieval engine that handles risk assessment end to end and hands a human the exceptions rather than the queue. Aimed at restaurants owner-operators, closing the loop while everyone is asleep.
In short: Restaurants Risk Scorer is a retrieval engine aimed at restaurants owner-operators, covering risk assessment. It scores 71/100 on AltF Ideas, carried by timing (90) and held back by open field (54). Typical pricing is $4.4k–$66k per customer per year, with a first version reachable in about a quarter for $15k–$49k.
Restaurants teams lose risk scored by whoever is free that afternoon. In most restaurants businesses this job has never had software written for it. Whoever knows how it works becomes a single point of failure.
A retrieval engine that handles risk assessment end to end and hands a human the exceptions rather than the queue. Revenue is data subscription, which suits a buyer who wants the cost to track the value rather than the seat count.
| Total addressable market | $293M |
|---|---|
| Category growth (CAGR) | 13% |
| Annual contract value | $4.4k – $66k |
| Pricing model | Data subscription |
| Time to first revenue | 62 days |
| Startup cost to MVP | $15k – $49k |
| Build effort | ~1 quarter |
Retrieval over private documents became cheap enough to run per query. Restaurants is growing at roughly 13% 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 |
| An offshore back office | Cheaper per hour, but does not scale down to the tail |
| The incumbent suite | Sells a platform; this job is one neglected module inside it |
Accuracy is unforgiving here — one wrong output costs more than the subscription.
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