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A workflow engine that sits beside the existing system, reads what it already produces, and closes collections. Aimed at hospitality owner-operators, writing down what only one person knows.
In short: Hospitality Collections Chaser is a workflow engine aimed at hospitality owner-operators, covering collections. It scores 72/100 on AltF Ideas, carried by monetisation (95) and held back by timing (39). Typical pricing is $12k–$187k per customer per year, with a first version reachable in a weekend for $2.0k–$6.0k.
Hospitality teams lose receivables aging past 90 days because nobody chased. In most hospitality businesses this job has never had software written for it. The backlog only surfaces when a customer or an auditor finds it first.
Collections handled by a workflow engine, with a human signing rather than writing. Revenue is managed service, which suits a buyer who wants the cost to track the value rather than the seat count.
| Total addressable market | $697M |
|---|---|
| Category growth (CAGR) | 12% |
| Annual contract value | $12k – $187k |
| Pricing model | Managed service |
| Time to first revenue | 84 days |
| Startup cost to MVP | $2.0k – $6.0k |
| Build effort | Weekend |
Connectors exist for systems that were closed five years ago. Hospitality is growing at roughly 12% 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 |
The incumbent is a person, and displacing a person is a change-management problem.
An idea you cannot act on is entertainment. Four concrete steps, wired to tools already running on AltFTool.
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