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A document parser that sits beside the existing system, reads what it already produces, and closes pricing. Aimed at facilities ops teams, catching the error before it becomes a change order.
In short: Facilities Pricing Engine on Extraction is a document parser aimed at facilities ops managers, covering pricing. It scores 70/100 on AltF Ideas, carried by monetisation (80) and held back by open field (49). Typical pricing is $900–$19k per customer per year, with a first version reachable in about a month for $7.0k–$17k.
Facilities teams lose a price list last revised when costs were 30% lower. Every facilities team solves this the same way: someone stays late. Whoever knows how it works becomes a single point of failure.
A narrow document parser scoped to pricing alone — no platform, no migration, no six-month rollout. Revenue is seat saas, which suits a buyer who wants the cost to track the value rather than the seat count.
| Total addressable market | $333M |
|---|---|
| Category growth (CAGR) | 11% |
| Annual contract value | $900 – $19k |
| Pricing model | Seat SaaS |
| Time to first revenue | 39 days |
| Startup cost to MVP | $7.0k – $17k |
| Build effort | ~1 month |
Document parsing stopped needing per-layout templates. 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 spreadsheet | The real incumbent in most of the market, and it is free |
| A generalist AI tool | No domain grounding, so output needs full human review |
The incumbent is a person, and displacing a person is a change-management problem.
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