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A retrieval engine that sits beside the existing system, reads what it already produces, and closes risk assessment. Aimed at construction ops teams, unbundling the one module people actually use.
In short: Construction Risk Scorer on Retrieval is a retrieval engine aimed at construction ops managers, covering risk assessment. It scores 70/100 on AltF Ideas, carried by demand (95) and held back by monetisation (42). Typical pricing is $4.1k–$62k per customer per year, with a first version reachable in about a quarter for $17k–$37k.
Construction teams lose risk scored by whoever is free that afternoon. 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.
A retrieval engine that handles risk assessment end to end and hands a human the exceptions rather than the queue. Revenue is data subscription, which suits a buyer who wants the cost to track the value rather than the seat count.
| Total addressable market | $1.4B |
|---|---|
| Category growth (CAGR) | 18% |
| Annual contract value | $4.1k – $62k |
| Pricing model | Data subscription |
| Time to first revenue | 72 days |
| Startup cost to MVP | $17k – $37k |
| Build effort | ~1 quarter |
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 generalist AI tool | No domain grounding, so output needs full human review |
| An internal hire | Works until volume doubles, then breaks again |
| An offshore back office | Cheaper per hour, but does not scale down to the tail |
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.
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