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A retrieval engine that sits beside the existing system, reads what it already produces, and closes proposal writing. Aimed at travel ops teams, catching the error before it becomes a change order.
In short: Travel Proposal Builder on Retrieval is a retrieval engine aimed at travel ops managers, covering proposal writing. It scores 74/100 on AltF Ideas, carried by demand (93) and held back by open field (29). Typical pricing is $5.2k–$112k per customer per year, with a first version reachable in about a quarter for $12k–$35k.
Travel teams lose proposals rebuilt from scratch that are 80% identical. The work sits between two systems that were never designed to talk. Most operators assume this is simply the cost of doing business.
Point a retrieval engine at proposal writing, 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 | $1.3B |
|---|---|
| Category growth (CAGR) | 18% |
| Annual contract value | $5.2k – $112k |
| Pricing model | Per-outcome |
| Time to first revenue | 80 days |
| Startup cost to MVP | $12k – $35k |
| Build effort | ~1 quarter |
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 |
|---|---|
| The incumbent suite | Sells a platform; this job is one neglected module inside it |
| An offshore back office | Cheaper per hour, but does not scale down to the tail |
| An internal hire | Works until volume doubles, then breaks again |
The incumbent is a person, and displacing a person is a change-management problem.
An idea you cannot act on is entertainment. Four concrete steps, wired to tools already running on AltFTool.
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→ AltF IdeaLabAsk how they handle this today and what it costs them. If nobody can quantify the pain, the demand score is optimistic.
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→ AltF DomainOpsStand up intake, the review queue, and billing before you build the clever part.
→ AltF Flow