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Risk assessment handled by a retrieval engine, with a human signing rather than writing. Aimed at retail merchandisers, built for one person, not a department.
In short: Retail Risk Scorer is a retrieval engine aimed at retail merchandisers, covering risk assessment. It scores 79/100 on AltF Ideas, carried by demand (96) and held back by open field (36). Typical pricing is $2.5k–$50k per customer per year, with a first version reachable in a weekend for $2.5k–$9.0k.
Retail teams lose risk scored by whoever is free that afternoon. It is the kind of task that is too small to fund and too costly to ignore. It scales linearly with headcount, so growth makes it worse rather than better.
Risk assessment handled by a retrieval engine, with a human signing rather than writing. Revenue is usage-based, which suits a buyer who wants the cost to track the value rather than the seat count.
| Total addressable market | $2.1B |
|---|---|
| Category growth (CAGR) | 11% |
| Annual contract value | $2.5k – $50k |
| Pricing model | Usage-based |
| Time to first revenue | 37 days |
| Startup cost to MVP | $2.5k – $9.0k |
| Build effort | Weekend |
Retrieval over private documents became cheap enough to run per query. Retail is growing at roughly 12% a year, and this job has not been re-tooled since it was designed around paper.
| Who | The gap |
|---|---|
| A vertical competitor | Priced and scoped for enterprise accounts, not this segment |
| 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.
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