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Site selection handled by a geospatial model, with a human signing rather than writing. Aimed at trade schools registrars, closing the loop while everyone is asleep.
In short: Trade schools Site Scorer is a geospatial model aimed at trade schools registrars, covering site selection. It scores 71/100 on AltF Ideas, carried by moat (94) and held back by feasibility (57). Typical pricing is $1.0k–$19k per customer per year, with a first version reachable in about a quarter for $17k–$55k.
Trade schools teams lose location decisions made on instinct and a drive-by. In most trade schools businesses this job has never had software written for it. The error rate is tolerated because measuring it would cost more than the errors.
A geospatial model that sits beside the existing system, reads what it already produces, and closes site selection. Revenue is seat saas, which suits a buyer who wants the cost to track the value rather than the seat count.
| Total addressable market | $306M |
|---|---|
| Category growth (CAGR) | 15% |
| Annual contract value | $1.0k – $19k |
| Pricing model | Seat SaaS |
| Time to first revenue | 38 days |
| Startup cost to MVP | $17k – $55k |
| Build effort | ~1 quarter |
Satellite and census-linked data became licensable at startup prices. Trade schools is growing at roughly 15% 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 |
Trust has to be earned before anyone lets this run unsupervised.
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