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Maintenance planning handled by an anomaly detector, with a human signing rather than writing. Aimed at hvac & plumbing owner-operators, going after the low-value tail everyone else skips.
In short: Automated Maintenance Planner for HVAC & plumbing is an anomaly detector aimed at hvac & plumbing owner-operators, covering maintenance planning. It scores 79/100 on AltF Ideas, carried by demand (94) and held back by feasibility (53). Typical pricing is $4.9k–$73k per customer per year, with a first version reachable in six to twelve months for $33k–$87k.
HVAC & plumbing teams lose maintenance done on a calendar rather than on condition. The work sits between two systems that were never designed to talk. It scales linearly with headcount, so growth makes it worse rather than better.
A narrow anomaly detector scoped to maintenance planning alone — no platform, no migration, no six-month rollout. Revenue is data subscription, which suits a buyer who wants the cost to track the value rather than the seat count.
| Total addressable market | $853M |
|---|---|
| Category growth (CAGR) | 14% |
| Annual contract value | $4.9k – $73k |
| Pricing model | Data subscription |
| Time to first revenue | 70 days |
| Startup cost to MVP | $33k – $87k |
| Build effort | 6-12 months |
Streaming detection became practical without a dedicated data platform. 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| A spreadsheet | The real incumbent in most of the market, and it is free |
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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