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Point a workflow engine at shift handover, and let people review output instead of producing it. Aimed at energy asset managers, writing down what only one person knows.
In short: Energy Handover Recorder is a workflow engine aimed at energy asset managers, covering shift handover. It scores 70/100 on AltF Ideas, carried by demand (86) and held back by timing (22). Typical pricing is $5.1k–$77k per customer per year, with a first version reachable in about a month for $5.5k–$14k.
Energy teams lose a whiteboard that loses half of what the last crew knew. It is the kind of task that is too small to fund and too costly to ignore. The cost is invisible on any P&L line, which is why it never gets fixed.
Point a workflow engine at shift handover, and let people review output instead of producing it. Revenue is data subscription, which suits a buyer who wants the cost to track the value rather than the seat count.
| Total addressable market | $2.1B |
|---|---|
| Category growth (CAGR) | 20% |
| Annual contract value | $5.1k – $77k |
| Pricing model | Data subscription |
| Time to first revenue | 51 days |
| Startup cost to MVP | $5.5k – $14k |
| Build effort | ~1 month |
Connectors exist for systems that were closed five years ago. Energy is growing at roughly 18% a year, and this job has not been re-tooled since it was designed around paper.
| Who | The gap |
|---|---|
| A spreadsheet | The real incumbent in most of the market, and it is free |
| A vertical competitor | Priced and scoped for enterprise accounts, not this segment |
| The incumbent suite | Sells a platform; this job is one neglected module inside it |
The data you need lives on paper in a back office; digitisation is half the product.
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