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Point a reconciliation engine at invoicing, and let people review output instead of producing it. Aimed at recruiting ops teams, closing the loop while everyone is asleep.
In short: Automated Invoice Engine for Recruiting is a reconciliation engine aimed at recruiting ops managers, covering invoicing. It scores 72/100 on AltF Ideas, carried by demand (94) and held back by open field (24). Typical pricing is $4.0k–$85k per customer per year, with a first version reachable in about a quarter for $15k–$46k.
Recruiting teams lose invoices assembled from four systems by hand. A typical recruiting operation runs this on people, memory, and a shared spreadsheet. The cost is invisible on any P&L line, which is why it never gets fixed.
A reconciliation engine that handles invoicing end to end and hands a human the exceptions rather than the queue. Revenue is per-outcome, which suits a buyer who wants the cost to track the value rather than the seat count.
| Total addressable market | $1.2B |
|---|---|
| Category growth (CAGR) | 12% |
| Annual contract value | $4.0k – $85k |
| Pricing model | Per-outcome |
| Time to first revenue | 74 days |
| Startup cost to MVP | $15k – $46k |
| Build effort | ~1 quarter |
Systems that never talked now expose APIs by default. Recruiting is growing at roughly 15% 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 |
| The incumbent suite | Sells a platform; this job is one neglected module inside it |
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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