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A retrieval engine that sits beside the existing system, reads what it already produces, and closes claims & appeals. Aimed at facilities facilities directors, taking the phone queue off a human entirely.
In short: Appeal Drafter for Facilities, Run by Retrieval is a retrieval engine aimed at facilities facilities directors, covering claims & appeals. It scores 75/100 on AltF Ideas, carried by open field (86) and held back by moat (70). Typical pricing is $1.1k–$23k per customer per year, with a first version reachable in about a quarter for $16k–$51k.
Facilities teams lose denials abandoned because appealing costs more than the claim. In most facilities businesses this job has never had software written for it. The error rate is tolerated because measuring it would cost more than the errors.
A retrieval engine that handles claims & appeals end to end and hands a human the exceptions rather than the queue. Revenue is seat saas, which suits a buyer who wants the cost to track the value rather than the seat count.
| Total addressable market | $669M |
|---|---|
| Category growth (CAGR) | 12% |
| Annual contract value | $1.1k – $23k |
| Pricing model | Seat SaaS |
| Time to first revenue | 46 days |
| Startup cost to MVP | $16k – $51k |
| Build effort | ~1 quarter |
Retrieval over private documents became cheap enough to run per query. Facilities is growing at roughly 14% a year, and this job has not been re-tooled since it was designed around paper.
| Who | The gap |
|---|---|
| A vertical competitor | Priced and scoped for enterprise accounts, not this segment |
| An internal hire | Works until volume doubles, then breaks again |
| An offshore back office | Cheaper per hour, but does not scale down to the tail |
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.
Score problem urgency, willingness to pay, and reachable audience size before writing any code.
→ 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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→ AltF DomainOpsStand up intake, the review queue, and billing before you build the clever part.
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