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An optimisation engine that sits beside the existing system, reads what it already produces, and closes maintenance planning. Aimed at hvac & plumbing owner-operators, surfacing the exposure nobody has priced.
In short: Maintenance Planner for HVAC & plumbing, Run by Optimisation is an optimisation engine aimed at hvac & plumbing owner-operators, covering maintenance planning. It scores 72/100 on AltF Ideas, carried by moat (93) and held back by open field (47). Typical pricing is $900–$9.0k per customer per year, with a first version reachable in about a quarter for $14k–$48k.
HVAC & plumbing teams lose maintenance done on a calendar rather than on condition. Nobody owns this process, which is exactly why it keeps breaking. It scales linearly with headcount, so growth makes it worse rather than better.
Point an optimisation engine at maintenance planning, and let people review output instead of producing it. Revenue is flat saas, which suits a buyer who wants the cost to track the value rather than the seat count.
| Total addressable market | $884M |
|---|---|
| Category growth (CAGR) | 14% |
| Annual contract value | $900 – $9.0k |
| Pricing model | Flat SaaS |
| Time to first revenue | 39 days |
| Startup cost to MVP | $14k – $48k |
| Build effort | ~1 quarter |
Solver capacity that once needed a research budget now runs on commodity hardware. HVAC & plumbing is growing at roughly 16% 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 generalist AI tool | No domain grounding, so output needs full human review |
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.
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→ AltF IdeaLabAsk how they handle this today and what it costs them. If nobody can quantify the pain, the demand score is optimistic.
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→ AltF DomainOpsStand up intake, the review queue, and billing before you build the clever part.
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