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A workflow engine that handles incident reporting end to end and hands a human the exceptions rather than the queue. Aimed at utilities ops teams, replacing the spreadsheet that currently holds it together.
In short: Incident Recorder for Utilities Ops Teams is a workflow engine aimed at utilities ops managers, covering incident reporting. It scores 70/100 on AltF Ideas, carried by feasibility (89) and held back by timing (23). Typical pricing is $1.2k–$24k per customer per year, with a first version reachable in a weekend for $2.5k–$7.0k.
Utilities teams lose incidents written up days later from memory. It is the kind of task that is too small to fund and too costly to ignore. The backlog only surfaces when a customer or an auditor finds it first.
A workflow engine that sits beside the existing system, reads what it already produces, and closes incident reporting. Revenue is seat saas, which suits a buyer who wants the cost to track the value rather than the seat count.
| Total addressable market | $1.4B |
|---|---|
| Category growth (CAGR) | 14% |
| Annual contract value | $1.2k – $24k |
| Pricing model | Seat SaaS |
| Time to first revenue | 33 days |
| Startup cost to MVP | $2.5k – $7.0k |
| Build effort | Weekend |
Connectors exist for systems that were closed five years ago. Utilities is growing at roughly 11% 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 |
| A vertical competitor | Priced and scoped for enterprise accounts, not this segment |
| A spreadsheet | The real incumbent in most of the market, and it is free |
Trust has to be earned before anyone lets this run unsupervised.
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