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A narrow document parser scoped to shift handover alone — no platform, no migration, no six-month rollout. Aimed at government compliance leads, finding what the inspector would find, first.
In short: Handover Recorder for Government, Run by Extraction is a document parser aimed at government compliance leads, covering shift handover. It scores 75/100 on AltF Ideas, carried by open field (86) and held back by demand (67). Typical pricing is $13k–$188k per customer per year, with a first version reachable in about a month for $6.5k–$15k.
Government teams lose a whiteboard that loses half of what the last crew knew. Every government team solves this the same way: someone stays late. It scales linearly with headcount, so growth makes it worse rather than better.
A narrow document parser scoped to shift handover alone — no platform, no migration, no six-month rollout. Revenue is managed service, which suits a buyer who wants the cost to track the value rather than the seat count.
| Total addressable market | $2.7B |
|---|---|
| Category growth (CAGR) | 11% |
| Annual contract value | $13k – $188k |
| Pricing model | Managed service |
| Time to first revenue | 73 days |
| Startup cost to MVP | $6.5k – $15k |
| Build effort | ~1 month |
Document parsing stopped needing per-layout templates. Government is growing at roughly 10% a year, and this job has not been re-tooled since it was designed around paper.
| Who | The gap |
|---|---|
| The incumbent suite | Sells a platform; this job is one neglected module inside it |
| A spreadsheet | The real incumbent in most of the market, and it is free |
| 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.
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