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Field reporting handled by a vision model, with a human signing rather than writing. Aimed at hvac & plumbing field supervisors, surfacing the exposure nobody has priced.
In short: Field Reporter for HVAC & plumbing, Run by Vision is a vision model aimed at hvac & plumbing field supervisors, covering field reporting. It scores 73/100 on AltF Ideas, carried by timing (92) and held back by monetisation (36). Typical pricing is $600–$7.0k per customer per year, with a first version reachable in about a quarter for $18k–$49k.
HVAC & plumbing teams lose reports typed up in a truck cab after a ten-hour day. A typical hvac & plumbing operation runs this on people, memory, and a shared spreadsheet. It scales linearly with headcount, so growth makes it worse rather than better.
Field reporting handled by a vision model, with a human signing rather than writing. Revenue is flat saas, which suits a buyer who wants the cost to track the value rather than the seat count.
| Total addressable market | $962M |
|---|---|
| Category growth (CAGR) | 13% |
| Annual contract value | $600 – $7.0k |
| Pricing model | Flat SaaS |
| Time to first revenue | 28 days |
| Startup cost to MVP | $18k – $49k |
| Build effort | ~1 quarter |
Multimodal models now read a photo of a worksite without custom training. HVAC & plumbing is growing at roughly 16% 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 vertical competitor | Priced and scoped for enterprise accounts, not this segment |
| An offshore back office | Cheaper per hour, but does not scale down to the tail |
Trust has to be earned before anyone lets this run unsupervised.
An idea you cannot act on is entertainment. Four concrete steps, wired to tools already running on AltFTool.
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