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A narrow retrieval engine scoped to risk assessment alone — no platform, no migration, no six-month rollout. Aimed at government ops teams, replacing the spreadsheet that currently holds it together.
In short: Retrieval-Powered Risk Scorer for Ops Teams is a retrieval engine aimed at government ops managers, covering risk assessment. It scores 74/100 on AltF Ideas, carried by moat (95) and held back by timing (56). Typical pricing is $6.0k–$129k per customer per year, with a first version reachable in about a quarter for $13k–$41k.
Government teams lose risk scored by whoever is free that afternoon. In most government businesses this job has never had software written for it. The cost is invisible on any P&L line, which is why it never gets fixed.
A narrow retrieval engine scoped to risk assessment alone — no platform, no migration, no six-month rollout. Revenue is per-outcome, which suits a buyer who wants the cost to track the value rather than the seat count.
| Total addressable market | $1.8B |
|---|---|
| Category growth (CAGR) | 7% |
| Annual contract value | $6.0k – $129k |
| Pricing model | Per-outcome |
| Time to first revenue | 59 days |
| Startup cost to MVP | $13k – $41k |
| Build effort | ~1 quarter |
Retrieval over private documents became cheap enough to run per query. Government is growing at roughly 10% 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 |
| A spreadsheet | The real incumbent in most of the market, and it is free |
The incumbent is a person, and displacing a person is a change-management problem.
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