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Claims & appeals handled by a workflow engine, with a human signing rather than writing. Aimed at hvac & plumbing field supervisors, replacing the spreadsheet that currently holds it together.
In short: Appeal Drafter Built for Field Supervisors is a workflow engine aimed at hvac & plumbing field supervisors, covering claims & appeals. It scores 75/100 on AltF Ideas, carried by monetisation (96) and held back by moat (44). Typical pricing is $4.5k–$96k per customer per year, with a first version reachable in a weekend for $2.5k–$6.0k.
HVAC & plumbing teams lose denials abandoned because appealing costs more than the claim. A typical hvac & plumbing operation runs this on people, memory, and a shared spreadsheet. Most operators assume this is simply the cost of doing business.
A narrow workflow engine scoped to claims & appeals alone — no platform, no migration, no six-month rollout. Revenue is per-outcome, which suits a buyer who wants the cost to track the value rather than the seat count.
| Total addressable market | $240M |
|---|---|
| Category growth (CAGR) | 19% |
| Annual contract value | $4.5k – $96k |
| Pricing model | Per-outcome |
| Time to first revenue | 70 days |
| Startup cost to MVP | $2.5k – $6.0k |
| Build effort | Weekend |
Connectors exist for systems that were closed five years ago. HVAC & plumbing is growing at roughly 16% 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 vertical competitor | Priced and scoped for enterprise accounts, not this segment |
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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