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A reconciliation engine that sits beside the existing system, reads what it already produces, and closes margin monitoring. Aimed at hvac & plumbing dispatchers, closing the loop while everyone is asleep.
In short: Margin Watch for HVAC & plumbing, Run by Reconciliation is a reconciliation engine aimed at hvac & plumbing dispatchers, covering margin monitoring. It scores 75/100 on AltF Ideas, carried by demand (95) and held back by open field (34). Typical pricing is $4.1k–$87k per customer per year, with a first version reachable in about a month for $5.0k–$12k.
HVAC & plumbing teams lose discovering a product went underwater a quarter late. 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 reconciliation engine at margin monitoring, and let people review output instead of producing it. Revenue is per-outcome, which suits a buyer who wants the cost to track the value rather than the seat count.
| Total addressable market | $450M |
|---|---|
| Category growth (CAGR) | 18% |
| Annual contract value | $4.1k – $87k |
| Pricing model | Per-outcome |
| Time to first revenue | 68 days |
| Startup cost to MVP | $5.0k – $12k |
| Build effort | ~1 month |
Systems that never talked now expose APIs by default. 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 |
| A spreadsheet | The real incumbent in most of the market, and it is free |
| A vertical competitor | Priced and scoped for enterprise accounts, not this segment |
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.
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