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Inspection handled by a vision model, with a human signing rather than writing. Aimed at solar ops teams, going after the low-value tail everyone else skips.
In short: Inspection Assistant for Solar, Run by Vision is a vision model aimed at solar ops managers, covering inspection. It scores 72/100 on AltF Ideas, carried by moat (85) and held back by monetisation (51). Typical pricing is $1.2k–$24k per customer per year, with a first version reachable in about a quarter for $18k–$50k.
Solar teams lose inspections written up twice — once on paper, once at night. Every solar team solves this the same way: someone stays late. The error rate is tolerated because measuring it would cost more than the errors.
A narrow vision model scoped to inspection alone — no platform, no migration, no six-month rollout. Revenue is seat saas, which suits a buyer who wants the cost to track the value rather than the seat count.
| Total addressable market | $516M |
|---|---|
| Category growth (CAGR) | 26% |
| Annual contract value | $1.2k – $24k |
| Pricing model | Seat SaaS |
| Time to first revenue | 39 days |
| Startup cost to MVP | $18k – $50k |
| Build effort | ~1 quarter |
Multimodal models now read a photo of a worksite without custom training. Solar is growing at roughly 24% 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 generalist AI tool | No domain grounding, so output needs full human review |
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.
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