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A narrow reconciliation engine scoped to reconciliation alone — no platform, no migration, no six-month rollout. Aimed at hospitality general managers, so the work stops following people home.
In short: Hospitality Reconciler on Reconciliation is a reconciliation engine aimed at hospitality general managers, covering reconciliation. It scores 70/100 on AltF Ideas, carried by demand (95) and held back by timing (26). Typical pricing is $3.4k–$51k per customer per year, with a first version reachable in about a month for $7.0k–$17k.
Hospitality teams lose two ledgers that never agree and nobody can say why. In most hospitality businesses this job has never had software written for it. The error rate is tolerated because measuring it would cost more than the errors.
A narrow reconciliation engine scoped to reconciliation alone — no platform, no migration, no six-month rollout. Revenue is data subscription, which suits a buyer who wants the cost to track the value rather than the seat count.
| Total addressable market | $887M |
|---|---|
| Category growth (CAGR) | 10% |
| Annual contract value | $3.4k – $51k |
| Pricing model | Data subscription |
| Time to first revenue | 57 days |
| Startup cost to MVP | $7.0k – $17k |
| Build effort | ~1 month |
Systems that never talked now expose APIs by default. 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 |
|---|---|
| An offshore back office | Cheaper per hour, but does not scale down to the tail |
| The incumbent suite | Sells a platform; this job is one neglected module inside it |
| An internal hire | Works until volume doubles, then breaks again |
The data you need lives on paper in a back office; digitisation is half the product.
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