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Scheduling handled by an optimisation engine, with a human signing rather than writing. Aimed at mental health solo practitioners, so the work stops following people home.
In short: Scheduling for Mental health Solo Practitioners is an optimisation engine aimed at mental health solo practitioners, covering scheduling. It scores 73/100 on AltF Ideas, carried by monetisation (96) and held back by feasibility (25). Typical pricing is $4.7k–$100k per customer per year, with a first version reachable in six to twelve months for $37k–$120k.
Mental health 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 backlog only surfaces when a customer or an auditor finds it first.
Scheduling handled by an optimisation engine, with a human signing rather than writing. Revenue is per-outcome, which suits a buyer who wants the cost to track the value rather than the seat count.
| Total addressable market | $1.6B |
|---|---|
| Category growth (CAGR) | 20% |
| Annual contract value | $4.7k – $100k |
| Pricing model | Per-outcome |
| Time to first revenue | 66 days |
| Startup cost to MVP | $37k – $120k |
| Build effort | 6-12 months |
Solver capacity that once needed a research budget now runs on commodity hardware. Mental health is growing at roughly 22% 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 |
| A spreadsheet | The real incumbent in most of the market, and it is free |
| An offshore back office | Cheaper per hour, but does not scale down to the tail |
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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