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Grant & funding tracking handled by a retrieval engine, with a human signing rather than writing. Aimed at legal ops teams, taking the phone queue off a human entirely.
In short: Legal Grant Tracker is a retrieval engine aimed at legal ops managers, covering grant & funding tracking. It scores 80/100 on AltF Ideas, carried by moat (92) and held back by demand (58). Typical pricing is $2.5k–$51k per customer per year, with a first version reachable in about a month for $4.5k–$15k.
Legal teams lose reporting deadlines discovered the week they are due. It is the kind of task that is too small to fund and too costly to ignore. Most operators assume this is simply the cost of doing business.
A retrieval engine that handles grant & funding tracking 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 | $982M |
|---|---|
| Category growth (CAGR) | 14% |
| Annual contract value | $2.5k – $51k |
| Pricing model | Usage-based |
| Time to first revenue | 37 days |
| Startup cost to MVP | $4.5k – $15k |
| Build effort | ~1 month |
Retrieval over private documents became cheap enough to run per query. Legal is growing at roughly 12% 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 spreadsheet | The real incumbent in most of the market, and it is free |
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.
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