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Point a retrieval engine at proposal writing, and let people review output instead of producing it. Aimed at security services field supervisors, writing down what only one person knows.
In short: Security services Proposal Builder on Retrieval is a retrieval engine aimed at security services field supervisors, covering proposal writing. It scores 74/100 on AltF Ideas, carried by moat (95) and held back by feasibility (34). Typical pricing is $4.8k–$72k per customer per year, with a first version reachable in six to twelve months for $34k–$95k.
Security services teams lose proposals rebuilt from scratch that are 80% identical. A typical security services operation runs this on people, memory, and a shared spreadsheet. The backlog only surfaces when a customer or an auditor finds it first.
Point a retrieval engine at proposal writing, and let people review output instead of producing it. Revenue is data subscription, which suits a buyer who wants the cost to track the value rather than the seat count.
| Total addressable market | $637M |
|---|---|
| Category growth (CAGR) | 18% |
| Annual contract value | $4.8k – $72k |
| Pricing model | Data subscription |
| Time to first revenue | 63 days |
| Startup cost to MVP | $34k – $95k |
| Build effort | 6-12 months |
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 |
|---|---|
| An internal hire | Works until volume doubles, then breaks again |
| A generalist AI tool | No domain grounding, so output needs full human review |
| 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