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A workflow engine that sits beside the existing system, reads what it already produces, and closes quoting & estimating. Aimed at construction ops teams, unbundling the one module people actually use.
In short: Construction Quote Builder is a workflow engine aimed at construction ops managers, covering quoting & estimating. It scores 75/100 on AltF Ideas, carried by monetisation (95) and held back by timing (43). Typical pricing is $4.7k–$101k per customer per year, with a first version reachable in a weekend for $2.5k–$6.0k.
Construction teams lose quotes that take three days and still miss margin. It is the kind of task that is too small to fund and too costly to ignore. The error rate is tolerated because measuring it would cost more than the errors.
A narrow workflow engine scoped to quoting & estimating alone — no platform, no migration, no six-month rollout. Revenue is per-outcome, which suits a buyer who wants the cost to track the value rather than the seat count.
| Total addressable market | $1.3B |
|---|---|
| Category growth (CAGR) | 20% |
| Annual contract value | $4.7k – $101k |
| Pricing model | Per-outcome |
| Time to first revenue | 71 days |
| Startup cost to MVP | $2.5k – $6.0k |
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 incumbent suite | Sells a platform; this job is one neglected module inside it |
The incumbent is a person, and displacing a person is a change-management problem.
An idea you cannot act on is entertainment. Four concrete steps, wired to tools already running on AltFTool.
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