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Intake & triage handled by a document parser, with a human signing rather than writing. Aimed at solar owner-operators, so the work stops following people home.
In short: Intake Triage for Solar, Run by Extraction is a document parser aimed at solar owner-operators, covering intake & triage. It scores 72/100 on AltF Ideas, carried by timing (90) and held back by moat (67). Typical pricing is $2.0k–$41k per customer per year, with a first version reachable in about a quarter for $17k–$52k.
Solar teams lose the front-desk queue that swallows 7 hours a week. The work sits between two systems that were never designed to talk. The backlog only surfaces when a customer or an auditor finds it first.
A document parser that handles intake & triage end to end and hands a human the exceptions rather than the queue. Revenue is usage-based, which suits a buyer who wants the cost to track the value rather than the seat count.
| Total addressable market | $474M |
|---|---|
| Category growth (CAGR) | 27% |
| Annual contract value | $2.0k – $41k |
| Pricing model | Usage-based |
| Time to first revenue | 52 days |
| Startup cost to MVP | $17k – $52k |
| Build effort | ~1 quarter |
Document parsing stopped needing per-layout templates. 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 |
|---|---|
| The incumbent suite | Sells a platform; this job is one neglected module inside it |
| An internal hire | Works until volume doubles, then breaks again |
| A vertical competitor | Priced and scoped for enterprise accounts, not this segment |
Every customer wants their own edge cases encoded, so onboarding cost is the real constraint.
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