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Intake & triage handled by a document parser, with a human signing rather than writing. Aimed at solar ops teams, so the work stops following people home.
In short: Intake Triage for Solar, Run by Extraction is a document parser aimed at solar ops managers, covering intake & triage. It scores 78/100 on AltF Ideas, carried by demand (94) and held back by open field (36). Typical pricing is $10k–$150k per customer per year, with a first version reachable in a weekend for $2.0k–$6.0k.
Solar teams lose the front-desk queue that swallows 10 hours a week. It is the kind of task that is too small to fund and too costly to ignore. The cost is invisible on any P&L line, which is why it never gets fixed.
Point a document parser at intake & triage, and let people review output instead of producing it. Revenue is managed service, which suits a buyer who wants the cost to track the value rather than the seat count.
| Total addressable market | $329M |
|---|---|
| Category growth (CAGR) | 26% |
| Annual contract value | $10k – $150k |
| Pricing model | Managed service |
| Time to first revenue | 85 days |
| Startup cost to MVP | $2.0k – $6.0k |
| Build effort | Weekend |
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 |
|---|---|
| An internal hire | Works until volume doubles, then breaks again |
| The incumbent suite | Sells a platform; this job is one neglected module inside it |
| An offshore back office | Cheaper per hour, but does not scale down to the tail |
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