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A narrow retrieval engine scoped to risk assessment alone — no platform, no migration, no six-month rollout. Aimed at construction estimators, going after the low-value tail everyone else skips.
In short: Construction Risk Scorer is a retrieval engine aimed at construction estimators, covering risk assessment. It scores 80/100 on AltF Ideas, carried by open field (91) and held back by monetisation (73). Typical pricing is $2.2k–$45k per customer per year, with a first version reachable in about a month for $6.5k–$14k.
Construction teams lose risk scored by whoever is free that afternoon. Every construction team solves this the same way: someone stays late. The cost is invisible on any P&L line, which is why it never gets fixed.
A retrieval engine that sits beside the existing system, reads what it already produces, and closes risk assessment. 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) | 21% |
| Annual contract value | $2.2k – $45k |
| Pricing model | Usage-based |
| Time to first revenue | 48 days |
| Startup cost to MVP | $6.5k – $14k |
| Build effort | ~1 month |
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 |
| An internal hire | Works until volume doubles, then breaks again |
| A vertical competitor | Priced and scoped for enterprise accounts, not this segment |
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