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A narrow workflow engine scoped to collections alone — no platform, no migration, no six-month rollout. Aimed at construction estimators, surfacing the exposure nobody has priced.
In short: Collections Chaser Built for Estimators is a workflow engine aimed at construction estimators, covering collections. It scores 73/100 on AltF Ideas, carried by monetisation (96) and held back by moat (33). Typical pricing is $4.5k–$95k per customer per year, with a first version reachable in a weekend for $3.0k–$10k.
Construction teams lose receivables aging past 90 days because nobody chased. 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.
Point a workflow engine at collections, and let people review output instead of producing it. Revenue is per-outcome, which suits a buyer who wants the cost to track the value rather than the seat count.
| Total addressable market | $530M |
|---|---|
| Category growth (CAGR) | 19% |
| Annual contract value | $4.5k – $95k |
| Pricing model | Per-outcome |
| Time to first revenue | 75 days |
| Startup cost to MVP | $3.0k – $10k |
| Build effort | Weekend |
Connectors exist for systems that were closed five years ago. Construction is growing at roughly 20% a year, and this job has not been re-tooled since it was designed around paper.
| Who | The gap |
|---|---|
| A generalist AI tool | No domain grounding, so output needs full human review |
| A spreadsheet | The real incumbent in most of the market, and it is free |
| A vertical competitor | Priced and scoped for enterprise accounts, not this segment |
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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→ 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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