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Scheduling handled by an optimisation engine, with a human signing rather than writing. Aimed at hvac & plumbing dispatchers, closing the loop while everyone is asleep.
In short: HVAC & plumbing Scheduling is an optimisation engine aimed at hvac & plumbing dispatchers, covering scheduling. It scores 72/100 on AltF Ideas, carried by moat (92) and held back by timing (33). Typical pricing is $900–$18k per customer per year, with a first version reachable in about a quarter for $18k–$55k.
HVAC & plumbing teams lose a calendar rebuilt by hand every time one job slips. A typical hvac & plumbing operation runs this on people, memory, and a shared spreadsheet. Whoever knows how it works becomes a single point of failure.
Point an optimisation engine at scheduling, and let people review output instead of producing it. Revenue is seat saas, which suits a buyer who wants the cost to track the value rather than the seat count.
| Total addressable market | $440M |
|---|---|
| Category growth (CAGR) | 16% |
| Annual contract value | $900 – $18k |
| Pricing model | Seat SaaS |
| Time to first revenue | 43 days |
| Startup cost to MVP | $18k – $55k |
| Build effort | ~1 quarter |
Solver capacity that once needed a research budget now runs on commodity hardware. 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 |
|---|---|
| A spreadsheet | The real incumbent in most of the market, and it is free |
| The incumbent suite | Sells a platform; this job is one neglected module inside it |
| A vertical competitor | Priced and scoped for enterprise accounts, not this segment |
Integrations with the incumbent system of record are undocumented and gatekept.
An idea you cannot act on is entertainment. Four concrete steps, wired to tools already running on AltFTool.
Score problem urgency, willingness to pay, and reachable audience size before writing any code.
→ AltF IdeaLabAsk how they handle this today and what it costs them. If nobody can quantify the pain, the demand score is optimistic.
→ Survey BuilderCheck availability, DNS, and email authentication in one pass so your first outreach lands in an inbox.
→ AltF DomainOpsStand up intake, the review queue, and billing before you build the clever part.
→ AltF Flow