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A retrieval engine that sits beside the existing system, reads what it already produces, and closes document review. Aimed at facilities ops teams, taking the phone queue off a human entirely.
In short: Document Reviewer for Facilities, Run by Retrieval is a retrieval engine aimed at facilities ops managers, covering document review. It scores 71/100 on AltF Ideas, carried by timing (92) and held back by feasibility (51). Typical pricing is $4.2k–$63k per customer per year, with a first version reachable in six to twelve months for $39k–$99k.
Facilities teams lose a 900-page document read by someone billing $300 an hour. A typical facilities operation runs this on people, memory, and a shared spreadsheet. The backlog only surfaces when a customer or an auditor finds it first.
A retrieval engine that sits beside the existing system, reads what it already produces, and closes document review. Revenue is data subscription, which suits a buyer who wants the cost to track the value rather than the seat count.
| Total addressable market | $790M |
|---|---|
| Category growth (CAGR) | 17% |
| Annual contract value | $4.2k – $63k |
| Pricing model | Data subscription |
| Time to first revenue | 63 days |
| Startup cost to MVP | $39k – $99k |
| Build effort | 6-12 months |
Retrieval over private documents became cheap enough to run per query. Facilities is growing at roughly 14% 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 offshore back office | Cheaper per hour, but does not scale down to the tail |
The data you need lives on paper in a back office; digitisation is half the product.
An idea you cannot act on is entertainment. Four concrete steps, wired to tools already running on AltFTool.
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