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An anomaly detector that handles permit & licence tracking end to end and hands a human the exceptions rather than the queue. Aimed at public safety department heads, surfacing the exposure nobody has priced.
In short: Automated Permit Tracker for Public safety is an anomaly detector aimed at public safety department heads, covering permit & licence tracking. It scores 71/100 on AltF Ideas, carried by open field (96) and held back by timing (37). Typical pricing is $4.7k–$71k per customer per year, with a first version reachable in six to twelve months for $29k–$66k.
Public safety teams lose twelve portals refreshed by hand every morning. It is the kind of task that is too small to fund and too costly to ignore. Whoever knows how it works becomes a single point of failure.
A narrow anomaly detector scoped to permit & licence tracking 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 | $905M |
|---|---|
| Category growth (CAGR) | 13% |
| Annual contract value | $4.7k – $71k |
| Pricing model | Data subscription |
| Time to first revenue | 69 days |
| Startup cost to MVP | $29k – $66k |
| Build effort | 6-12 months |
Streaming detection became practical without a dedicated data platform. Public safety is growing at roughly 14% a year, and this job has not been re-tooled since it was designed around paper.
| Who | The gap |
|---|---|
| An offshore back office | Cheaper per hour, but does not scale down to the tail |
| A generalist AI tool | No domain grounding, so output needs full human review |
| An internal hire | Works until volume doubles, then breaks again |
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.
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