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Point a retrieval engine at claims & appeals, and let people review output instead of producing it. Aimed at construction estimators, charging only when it actually works.
In short: Construction Appeal Drafter is a retrieval engine aimed at construction estimators, covering claims & appeals. It scores 77/100 on AltF Ideas, carried by demand (89) and held back by feasibility (49). Typical pricing is $2.1k–$41k per customer per year, with a first version reachable in six to twelve months for $39k–$124k.
Construction teams lose denials abandoned because appealing costs more than the claim. In most construction businesses this job has never had software written for it. Whoever knows how it works becomes a single point of failure.
A narrow retrieval engine scoped to claims & appeals alone — no platform, no migration, no six-month rollout. Revenue is usage-based, which suits a buyer who wants the cost to track the value rather than the seat count.
| Total addressable market | $1.1B |
|---|---|
| Category growth (CAGR) | 19% |
| Annual contract value | $2.1k – $41k |
| Pricing model | Usage-based |
| Time to first revenue | 51 days |
| Startup cost to MVP | $39k – $124k |
| Build effort | 6-12 months |
Retrieval over private documents became cheap enough to run per query. 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 spreadsheet | The real incumbent in most of the market, and it is free |
| A generalist AI tool | No domain grounding, so output needs full human review |
| An internal hire | Works until volume doubles, then breaks again |
Every customer wants their own edge cases encoded, so onboarding cost is the real constraint.
An idea you cannot act on is entertainment. Four concrete steps, wired to tools already running on AltFTool.
Score problem urgency, willingness to pay, and reachable audience size before writing any code.
→ AltF IdeaLabAsk how they handle this today and what it costs them. If nobody can quantify the pain, the demand score is optimistic.
→ Survey BuilderCheck availability, DNS, and email authentication in one pass so your first outreach lands in an inbox.
→ AltF DomainOpsStand up intake, the review queue, and billing before you build the clever part.
→ AltF Flow