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An optimisation engine that sits beside the existing system, reads what it already produces, and closes scheduling. Aimed at logistics warehouse teams, finding what the inspector would find, first.
In short: Scheduling Built for Warehouse Teams is an optimisation engine aimed at logistics warehouse leads, covering scheduling. It scores 74/100 on AltF Ideas, carried by moat (96) and held back by feasibility (25). Typical pricing is $5.2k–$111k per customer per year, with a first version reachable in six to twelve months for $31k–$86k.
Logistics 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. It scales linearly with headcount, so growth makes it worse rather than better.
Point an optimisation engine at scheduling, and let people review output instead of producing it. Revenue is per-outcome, which suits a buyer who wants the cost to track the value rather than the seat count.
| Total addressable market | $1.5B |
|---|---|
| Category growth (CAGR) | 15% |
| Annual contract value | $5.2k – $111k |
| Pricing model | Per-outcome |
| Time to first revenue | 80 days |
| Startup cost to MVP | $31k – $86k |
| Build effort | 6-12 months |
Solver capacity that once needed a research budget now runs on commodity hardware. Logistics is growing at roughly 15% 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 |
| The incumbent suite | Sells a platform; this job is one neglected module inside it |
| A generalist AI tool | No domain grounding, so output needs full human review |
The incumbent is a person, and displacing a person is a change-management problem.
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