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A narrow workflow engine scoped to dispatch alone — no platform, no migration, no six-month rollout. Aimed at freight brokerage dispatchers, holding service constant on a smaller team.
In short: Workflow-Powered Dispatch for Dispatchers is a workflow engine aimed at freight brokerage dispatchers, covering dispatch. It scores 70/100 on AltF Ideas, carried by feasibility (82) and held back by timing (51). Typical pricing is $4.4k–$66k per customer per year, with a first version reachable in about a month for $6.0k–$19k.
Freight brokerage teams lose routing decisions made from memory at 6am. Nobody owns this process, which is exactly why it keeps breaking. It scales linearly with headcount, so growth makes it worse rather than better.
Point a workflow engine at dispatch, 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 | $497M |
|---|---|
| Category growth (CAGR) | 15% |
| Annual contract value | $4.4k – $66k |
| Pricing model | Data subscription |
| Time to first revenue | 65 days |
| Startup cost to MVP | $6.0k – $19k |
| Build effort | ~1 month |
Connectors exist for systems that were closed five years ago. Freight brokerage is growing at roughly 13% 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 internal hire | Works until volume doubles, then breaks again |
| A spreadsheet | The real incumbent in most of the market, and it is free |
The data you need lives on paper in a back office; digitisation is half the product.
An idea you cannot act on is entertainment. Four concrete steps, wired to tools already running on AltFTool.
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