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A retrieval engine that handles proposal writing end to end and hands a human the exceptions rather than the queue. Aimed at wholesale sales teams, replacing the spreadsheet that currently holds it together.
In short: Retrieval-Powered Proposal Builder for Sales Teams is a retrieval engine aimed at wholesale sales leads, covering proposal writing. It scores 78/100 on AltF Ideas, carried by timing (91) and held back by demand (64). Typical pricing is $1.0k–$21k per customer per year, with a first version reachable in about a month for $4.5k–$12k.
Wholesale teams lose proposals rebuilt from scratch that are 80% identical. In most wholesale businesses this job has never had software written for it. Most operators assume this is simply the cost of doing business.
Point a retrieval engine at proposal writing, and let people review output instead of producing it. Revenue is seat saas, which suits a buyer who wants the cost to track the value rather than the seat count.
| Total addressable market | $778M |
|---|---|
| Category growth (CAGR) | 14% |
| Annual contract value | $1.0k – $21k |
| Pricing model | Seat SaaS |
| Time to first revenue | 34 days |
| Startup cost to MVP | $4.5k – $12k |
| Build effort | ~1 month |
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 generalist AI tool | No domain grounding, so output needs full human review |
| 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 buying cycle is slower than the build, so runway assumptions matter more than code.
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