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A narrow reconciliation engine scoped to payroll verification alone — no platform, no migration, no six-month rollout. Aimed at childcare program directors, charging only when it actually works.
In short: Automated Payroll Verifier for Childcare is a reconciliation engine aimed at childcare program directors, covering payroll verification. It scores 74/100 on AltF Ideas, carried by demand (91) and held back by monetisation (32). Typical pricing is $900–$18k per customer per year, with a first version reachable in a weekend for $2.5k–$7.0k.
Childcare teams lose payroll errors found by the employee, not the system. In most childcare businesses this job has never had software written for it. It scales linearly with headcount, so growth makes it worse rather than better.
A narrow reconciliation engine 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 | $459M |
|---|---|
| Category growth (CAGR) | 16% |
| Annual contract value | $900 – $18k |
| Pricing model | Seat SaaS |
| Time to first revenue | 55 days |
| Startup cost to MVP | $2.5k – $7.0k |
| Build effort | Weekend |
Systems that never talked now expose APIs by default. Childcare is growing at roughly 17% 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 |
The data you need lives on paper in a back office; digitisation is half the product.
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