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A narrow workflow engine scoped to dispatch alone — no platform, no migration, no six-month rollout. Aimed at utilities ops teams, writing down what only one person knows.
In short: Utilities Dispatch is a workflow engine aimed at utilities ops managers, covering dispatch. It scores 73/100 on AltF Ideas, carried by feasibility (97) and held back by timing (38). Typical pricing is $1.1k–$23k per customer per year, with a first version reachable in a weekend for $2.5k–$6.0k.
Utilities teams lose routing decisions made from memory at 6am. Every utilities team solves this the same way: someone stays late. The cost is invisible on any P&L line, which is why it never gets fixed.
A narrow workflow engine scoped to dispatch alone — no platform, no migration, no six-month rollout. Revenue is seat saas, which suits a buyer who wants the cost to track the value rather than the seat count.
| Total addressable market | $942M |
|---|---|
| Category growth (CAGR) | 9% |
| Annual contract value | $1.1k – $23k |
| Pricing model | Seat SaaS |
| Time to first revenue | 36 days |
| Startup cost to MVP | $2.5k – $6.0k |
| Build effort | Weekend |
Connectors exist for systems that were closed five years ago. Utilities is growing at roughly 11% a year, and this job has not been re-tooled since it was designed around paper.
| Who | The gap |
|---|---|
| A spreadsheet | The real incumbent in most of the market, and it is free |
| A vertical competitor | Priced and scoped for enterprise accounts, not this segment |
| An internal hire | Works until volume doubles, then breaks again |
Trust has to be earned before anyone lets this run unsupervised.
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