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A narrow retrieval engine scoped to knowledge capture alone — no platform, no migration, no six-month rollout. Aimed at wholesale inventory planners, finding what the inspector would find, first.
In short: Retrieval-Powered Knowledge Base for Inventory Planners is a retrieval engine aimed at wholesale inventory planners, covering knowledge capture. It scores 77/100 on AltF Ideas, carried by open field (89) and held back by moat (48). Typical pricing is $1.9k–$37k per customer per year, with a first version reachable in a weekend for $2.5k–$9.0k.
Wholesale teams lose twenty years of know-how walking out at retirement. Every wholesale team solves this the same way: someone stays late. It scales linearly with headcount, so growth makes it worse rather than better.
A retrieval engine that sits beside the existing system, reads what it already produces, and closes knowledge capture. Revenue is usage-based, which suits a buyer who wants the cost to track the value rather than the seat count.
| Total addressable market | $1.2B |
|---|---|
| Category growth (CAGR) | 9% |
| Annual contract value | $1.9k – $37k |
| Pricing model | Usage-based |
| Time to first revenue | 47 days |
| Startup cost to MVP | $2.5k – $9.0k |
| Build effort | Weekend |
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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| A vertical competitor | Priced and scoped for enterprise accounts, not this segment |
The data you need lives on paper in a back office; digitisation is half the product.
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