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A narrow retrieval engine scoped to proposal writing alone — no platform, no migration, no six-month rollout. Aimed at freight brokerage ops teams, finding what the inspector would find, first.
In short: Retrieval Proposal Builder for Freight brokerage is a retrieval engine aimed at freight brokerage ops managers, covering proposal writing. It scores 70/100 on AltF Ideas, carried by moat (92) and held back by feasibility (29). Typical pricing is $4.0k–$86k per customer per year, with a first version reachable in six to twelve months for $42k–$150k.
Freight brokerage teams lose proposals rebuilt from scratch that are 80% identical. Nobody owns this process, which is exactly why it keeps breaking. The error rate is tolerated because measuring it would cost more than the errors.
A narrow retrieval engine scoped to proposal writing 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 | $708M |
|---|---|
| Category growth (CAGR) | 12% |
| Annual contract value | $4.0k – $86k |
| Pricing model | Per-outcome |
| Time to first revenue | 66 days |
| Startup cost to MVP | $42k – $150k |
| Build effort | 6-12 months |
Retrieval over private documents became cheap enough to run per query. Freight brokerage is growing at roughly 13% 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 |
| 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 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