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A retrieval engine that sits beside the existing system, reads what it already produces, and closes proposal writing. Aimed at security services schedulers, finding what the inspector would find, first.
In short: Retrieval Proposal Builder for Security services is a retrieval engine aimed at security services schedulers, covering proposal writing. It scores 74/100 on AltF Ideas, carried by open field (86) and held back by timing (59). Typical pricing is $1.7k–$34k per customer per year, with a first version reachable in about a month for $6.0k–$21k.
Security services teams lose proposals rebuilt from scratch that are 80% identical. Nobody owns this process, which is exactly why it keeps breaking. The backlog only surfaces when a customer or an auditor finds it first.
A retrieval engine that sits beside the existing system, reads what it already produces, and closes proposal writing. Revenue is usage-based, which suits a buyer who wants the cost to track the value rather than the seat count.
| Total addressable market | $665M |
|---|---|
| Category growth (CAGR) | 18% |
| Annual contract value | $1.7k – $34k |
| Pricing model | Usage-based |
| Time to first revenue | 36 days |
| Startup cost to MVP | $6.0k – $21k |
| Build effort | ~1 month |
Retrieval over private documents became cheap enough to run per query. Security services is growing at roughly 15% 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 |
| 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 |
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.
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