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Dispatch handled by a workflow engine, with a human signing rather than writing. Aimed at freight brokerage ops teams, starting from data the business already produces.
In short: Workflow-Powered Dispatch for Ops Teams is a workflow engine aimed at freight brokerage ops managers, covering dispatch. It scores 70/100 on AltF Ideas, carried by monetisation (85) and held back by timing (38). Typical pricing is $3.4k–$91k per customer per year, with a first version reachable in about a month for $6.5k–$20k.
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.
A narrow workflow engine scoped to dispatch alone — no platform, no migration, no six-month rollout. Revenue is per-vehicle, which suits a buyer who wants the cost to track the value rather than the seat count.
| Total addressable market | $836M |
|---|---|
| Category growth (CAGR) | 15% |
| Annual contract value | $3.4k – $91k |
| Pricing model | Per-vehicle |
| Time to first revenue | 65 days |
| Startup cost to MVP | $6.5k – $20k |
| 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 |
|---|---|
| A spreadsheet | The real incumbent in most of the market, and it is free |
| An internal hire | Works until volume doubles, then breaks again |
| The incumbent suite | Sells a platform; this job is one neglected module inside it |
The buying cycle is slower than the build, so runway assumptions matter more than code.
An idea you cannot act on is entertainment. Four concrete steps, wired to tools already running on AltFTool.
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