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Scheduling handled by an optimisation engine, with a human signing rather than writing. Aimed at maritime ops teams, catching the error before it becomes a change order.
In short: Scheduling Built for Ops Teams is an optimisation engine aimed at maritime ops managers, covering scheduling. It scores 71/100 on AltF Ideas, carried by open field (97) and held back by demand (40). Typical pricing is $2.1k–$42k per customer per year, with a first version reachable in about a quarter for $12k–$31k.
Maritime teams lose a calendar rebuilt by hand every time one job slips. It is the kind of task that is too small to fund and too costly to ignore. The error rate is tolerated because measuring it would cost more than the errors.
An optimisation engine that handles scheduling end to end and hands a human the exceptions rather than the queue. Revenue is usage-based, which suits a buyer who wants the cost to track the value rather than the seat count.
| Total addressable market | $132M |
|---|---|
| Category growth (CAGR) | 15% |
| Annual contract value | $2.1k – $42k |
| Pricing model | Usage-based |
| Time to first revenue | 32 days |
| Startup cost to MVP | $12k – $31k |
| Build effort | ~1 quarter |
Solver capacity that once needed a research budget now runs on commodity hardware. Maritime is growing at roughly 13% 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 |
| The incumbent suite | Sells a platform; this job is one neglected module inside it |
| A vertical competitor | Priced and scoped for enterprise accounts, not this segment |
Every customer wants their own edge cases encoded, so onboarding cost is the real constraint.
An idea you cannot act on is entertainment. Four concrete steps, wired to tools already running on AltFTool.
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