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Point an anomaly detector at payroll verification, and let people review output instead of producing it. Aimed at utilities ops teams, finding what the inspector would find, first.
In short: Anomaly Payroll Verifier for Utilities is an anomaly detector aimed at utilities ops managers, covering payroll verification. It scores 75/100 on AltF Ideas, carried by moat (95) and held back by monetisation (42). Typical pricing is $1.1k–$23k per customer per year, with a first version reachable in a weekend for $3.0k–$7.0k.
Utilities teams lose payroll errors found by the employee, not the system. In most utilities businesses this job has never had software written for it. Most operators assume this is simply the cost of doing business.
A narrow anomaly detector scoped to payroll verification 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 | $421M |
|---|---|
| Category growth (CAGR) | 10% |
| Annual contract value | $1.1k – $23k |
| Pricing model | Seat SaaS |
| Time to first revenue | 44 days |
| Startup cost to MVP | $3.0k – $7.0k |
| Build effort | Weekend |
Streaming detection became practical without a dedicated data platform. 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 |
|---|---|
| An internal hire | Works until volume doubles, then breaks again |
| 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 |
Trust has to be earned before anyone lets this run unsupervised.
An idea you cannot act on is entertainment. Four concrete steps, wired to tools already running on AltFTool.
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