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A narrow anomaly detector scoped to permit & licence tracking alone — no platform, no migration, no six-month rollout. Aimed at industrial services field supervisors, at a tenth of what the enterprise suite charges.
In short: Industrial services Permit Tracker is an anomaly detector aimed at industrial services field supervisors, covering permit & licence tracking. It scores 74/100 on AltF Ideas, carried by moat (89) and held back by feasibility (52). Typical pricing is $4.8k–$72k per customer per year, with a first version reachable in six to twelve months for $29k–$102k.
Industrial services teams lose twelve portals refreshed by hand every morning. It is the kind of task that is too small to fund and too costly to ignore. The error rate is tolerated because measuring it would cost more than the errors.
An anomaly detector that handles permit & licence tracking end to end and hands a human the exceptions rather than the queue. Revenue is data subscription, which suits a buyer who wants the cost to track the value rather than the seat count.
| Total addressable market | $340M |
|---|---|
| Category growth (CAGR) | 17% |
| Annual contract value | $4.8k – $72k |
| Pricing model | Data subscription |
| Time to first revenue | 50 days |
| Startup cost to MVP | $29k – $102k |
| Build effort | 6-12 months |
Streaming detection became practical without a dedicated data platform. Industrial services is growing at roughly 14% a year, and this job has not been re-tooled since it was designed around paper.
| Who | The gap |
|---|---|
| A generalist AI tool | No domain grounding, so output needs full human review |
| A vertical competitor | Priced and scoped for enterprise accounts, not this segment |
| An offshore back office | Cheaper per hour, but does not scale down to the tail |
The buying cycle is slower than the build, so runway assumptions matter more than code.
An idea you cannot act on is entertainment. Four concrete steps, wired to tools already running on AltFTool.
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