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A retrieval engine that handles claims & appeals end to end and hands a human the exceptions rather than the queue. Aimed at facilities maintenance leads, finding what the inspector would find, first.
In short: Facilities Appeal Drafter on Retrieval is a retrieval engine aimed at facilities maintenance leads, covering claims & appeals. It scores 75/100 on AltF Ideas, carried by moat (94) and held back by demand (52). Typical pricing is $11k–$163k per customer per year, with a first version reachable in six to twelve months for $43k–$100k.
Facilities teams lose denials abandoned because appealing costs more than the claim. Every facilities team solves this the same way: someone stays late. Most operators assume this is simply the cost of doing business.
Claims & appeals handled by a retrieval engine, 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 | $901M |
|---|---|
| Category growth (CAGR) | 11% |
| Annual contract value | $11k – $163k |
| Pricing model | Managed service |
| Time to first revenue | 75 days |
| Startup cost to MVP | $43k – $100k |
| 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 |
|---|---|
| An internal hire | Works until volume doubles, then breaks again |
| A generalist AI tool | No domain grounding, so output needs full human review |
| A vertical competitor | Priced and scoped for enterprise accounts, not this segment |
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.
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.
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→ AltF DomainOpsStand up intake, the review queue, and billing before you build the clever part.
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