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A narrow retrieval engine scoped to knowledge capture alone — no platform, no migration, no six-month rollout. Aimed at travel ops teams, built for one person, not a department.
In short: Travel Knowledge Base is a retrieval engine aimed at travel ops managers, covering knowledge capture. It scores 79/100 on AltF Ideas, carried by demand (92) and held back by open field (27). Typical pricing is $4.6k–$98k per customer per year, with a first version reachable in about a month for $5.5k–$16k.
Travel teams lose twenty years of know-how walking out at retirement. The work sits between two systems that were never designed to talk. The cost is invisible on any P&L line, which is why it never gets fixed.
A narrow retrieval engine scoped to knowledge capture alone — no platform, no migration, no six-month rollout. Revenue is per-outcome, which suits a buyer who wants the cost to track the value rather than the seat count.
| Total addressable market | $927M |
|---|---|
| Category growth (CAGR) | 15% |
| Annual contract value | $4.6k – $98k |
| Pricing model | Per-outcome |
| Time to first revenue | 62 days |
| Startup cost to MVP | $5.5k – $16k |
| Build effort | ~1 month |
Retrieval over private documents became cheap enough to run per query. Travel is growing at roughly 15% a year, and this job has not been re-tooled since it was designed around paper.
| Who | The gap |
|---|---|
| A generalist AI tool | No domain grounding, so output needs full human review |
| 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 |
The incumbent is a person, and displacing a person is a change-management problem.
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