A narrow retrieval engine scoped to risk assessment alone — no platform, no migration, no six-month rollout. Aimed at veterinary office managers, finding what the inspector would find, first.
In short: Risk Scorer for Veterinary, Run by Retrieval is a retrieval engine aimed at veterinary office managers, covering risk assessment. It scores 72/100 on AltF Ideas, carried by open field (94) and held back by monetisation (30). Typical pricing is $1.0k–$20k per customer per year, with a first version reachable in a weekend for $2.5k–$6.0k.
Veterinary teams lose risk scored by whoever is free that afternoon. In most veterinary businesses this job has never had software written for it. It scales linearly with headcount, so growth makes it worse rather than better.
Risk assessment handled by a retrieval engine, with a human signing rather than writing. Revenue is seat saas, which suits a buyer who wants the cost to track the value rather than the seat count.
| Total addressable market | $386M |
|---|---|
| Category growth (CAGR) | 13% |
| Annual contract value | $1.0k – $20k |
| Pricing model | Seat SaaS |
| Time to first revenue | 39 days |
| Startup cost to MVP | $2.5k – $6.0k |
| Build effort | Weekend |
Retrieval over private documents became cheap enough to run per query. Veterinary is growing at roughly 16% a year, and this job has not been re-tooled since it was designed around paper.
| Who | The gap |
|---|---|
| An offshore back office | Cheaper per hour, but does not scale down to the tail |
| An internal hire | Works until volume doubles, then breaks again |
| 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.
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