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Point a document parser at reporting & analytics, and let people review output instead of producing it. Aimed at solar project managers, catching the error before it becomes a change order.
In short: Extraction Reporting Layer for Solar is a document parser aimed at solar project managers, covering reporting & analytics. It scores 72/100 on AltF Ideas, carried by demand (89) and held back by moat (46). Typical pricing is $11k–$160k per customer per year, with a first version reachable in about a month for $5.5k–$15k.
Solar teams lose a monthly report rebuilt by hand in a spreadsheet. It is the kind of task that is too small to fund and too costly to ignore. It scales linearly with headcount, so growth makes it worse rather than better.
Reporting & analytics handled by a document parser, with a human signing rather than writing. Revenue is managed service, which suits a buyer who wants the cost to track the value rather than the seat count.
| Total addressable market | $887M |
|---|---|
| Category growth (CAGR) | 23% |
| Annual contract value | $11k – $160k |
| Pricing model | Managed service |
| Time to first revenue | 86 days |
| Startup cost to MVP | $5.5k – $15k |
| Build effort | ~1 month |
Document parsing stopped needing per-layout templates. Solar is growing at roughly 24% 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 |
| A vertical competitor | Priced and scoped for enterprise accounts, not this segment |
Accuracy is unforgiving here — one wrong output costs more than the subscription.
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