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A retrieval engine that sits beside the existing system, reads what it already produces, and closes claims & appeals. Aimed at construction owner-operators, built for one person, not a department.
In short: Construction Appeal Drafter is a retrieval engine aimed at construction owner-operators, covering claims & appeals. It scores 74/100 on AltF Ideas, carried by moat (94) and held back by feasibility (51). Typical pricing is $2.6k–$52k per customer per year, with a first version reachable in six to twelve months for $37k–$83k.
Construction teams lose denials abandoned because appealing costs more than the claim. The work sits between two systems that were never designed to talk. The error rate is tolerated because measuring it would cost more than the errors.
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 | $1.5B |
|---|---|
| Category growth (CAGR) | 20% |
| Annual contract value | $2.6k – $52k |
| Pricing model | Usage-based |
| Time to first revenue | 40 days |
| Startup cost to MVP | $37k – $83k |
| 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 |
|---|---|
| The incumbent suite | Sells a platform; this job is one neglected module inside it |
| A spreadsheet | The real incumbent in most of the market, and it is free |
| 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.
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