A narrow reconciliation engine scoped to reconciliation alone — no platform, no migration, no six-month rollout. Aimed at facilities maintenance leads, closing the loop while everyone is asleep.
In short: Facilities Reconciler on Reconciliation is a reconciliation engine aimed at facilities maintenance leads, covering reconciliation. It scores 73/100 on AltF Ideas, carried by open field (89) and held back by timing (54). Typical pricing is $1.8k–$36k per customer per year, with a first version reachable in a weekend for $3.0k–$8.0k.
Facilities teams lose two ledgers that never agree and nobody can say why. Every facilities team solves this the same way: someone stays late. Most operators assume this is simply the cost of doing business.
A narrow reconciliation engine scoped to reconciliation alone — no platform, no migration, no six-month rollout. Revenue is usage-based, which suits a buyer who wants the cost to track the value rather than the seat count.
| Total addressable market | $333M |
|---|---|
| Category growth (CAGR) | 16% |
| Annual contract value | $1.8k – $36k |
| Pricing model | Usage-based |
| Time to first revenue | 39 days |
| Startup cost to MVP | $3.0k – $8.0k |
| Build effort | Weekend |
Systems that never talked now expose APIs by default. 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 |
| An offshore back office | Cheaper per hour, but does not scale down to the tail |
| A vertical competitor | Priced and scoped for enterprise accounts, not this segment |
The incumbent is a person, and displacing a person is a change-management problem.
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