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A narrow retrieval engine scoped to knowledge capture alone — no platform, no migration, no six-month rollout. Aimed at life sciences lab managers, built for one person, not a department.
In short: Retrieval Knowledge Base for Life sciences is a retrieval engine aimed at life sciences lab managers, covering knowledge capture. It scores 75/100 on AltF Ideas, carried by open field (95) and held back by feasibility (36). Typical pricing is $5.8k–$124k per customer per year, with a first version reachable in six to twelve months for $35k–$107k.
Life sciences teams lose twenty years of know-how walking out at retirement. The work sits between two systems that were never designed to talk. Most operators assume this is simply the cost of doing business.
A retrieval engine that sits beside the existing system, reads what it already produces, and closes knowledge capture. Revenue is per-outcome, which suits a buyer who wants the cost to track the value rather than the seat count.
| Total addressable market | $1.7B |
|---|---|
| Category growth (CAGR) | 18% |
| Annual contract value | $5.8k – $124k |
| Pricing model | Per-outcome |
| Time to first revenue | 76 days |
| Startup cost to MVP | $35k – $107k |
| Build effort | 6-12 months |
Retrieval over private documents became cheap enough to run per query. Life sciences is growing at roughly 18% 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 |
| An offshore back office | Cheaper per hour, but does not scale down to the tail |
Integrations with the incumbent system of record are undocumented and gatekept.
An idea you cannot act on is entertainment. Four concrete steps, wired to tools already running on AltFTool.
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