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Field reporting handled by a document parser, with a human signing rather than writing. Aimed at trade schools program directors, closing the loop while everyone is asleep.
In short: Field Reporter for Trade schools, Run by Extraction is a document parser aimed at trade schools program directors, covering field reporting. It scores 70/100 on AltF Ideas, carried by monetisation (93) and held back by timing (43). Typical pricing is $3.8k–$82k per customer per year, with a first version reachable in about a quarter for $13k–$43k.
Trade schools teams lose reports typed up in a truck cab after a ten-hour day. Every trade schools team solves this the same way: someone stays late. It scales linearly with headcount, so growth makes it worse rather than better.
A document parser that handles field reporting end to end and hands a human the exceptions rather than the queue. Revenue is per-outcome, which suits a buyer who wants the cost to track the value rather than the seat count.
| Total addressable market | $110M |
|---|---|
| Category growth (CAGR) | 16% |
| Annual contract value | $3.8k – $82k |
| Pricing model | Per-outcome |
| Time to first revenue | 59 days |
| Startup cost to MVP | $13k – $43k |
| Build effort | ~1 quarter |
Document parsing stopped needing per-layout templates. Trade schools is growing at roughly 15% a year, and this job has not been re-tooled since it was designed around paper.
| Who | The gap |
|---|---|
| A spreadsheet | The real incumbent in most of the market, and it is free |
| An internal hire | Works until volume doubles, then breaks again |
| A vertical competitor | Priced and scoped for enterprise accounts, not this segment |
Integrations with the incumbent system of record are undocumented and gatekept.
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