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A narrow change monitor scoped to permit & licence tracking alone — no platform, no migration, no six-month rollout. Aimed at public safety department heads, charging only when it actually works.
In short: Monitoring Permit Tracker for Public safety is a change monitor aimed at public safety department heads, covering permit & licence tracking. It scores 74/100 on AltF Ideas, carried by moat (87) and held back by timing (35). Typical pricing is $11k–$160k per customer per year, with a first version reachable in a weekend for $3.0k–$10k.
Public safety teams lose twelve portals refreshed by hand every morning. In most public safety businesses this job has never had software written for it. The backlog only surfaces when a customer or an auditor finds it first.
A change monitor that sits beside the existing system, reads what it already produces, and closes permit & licence tracking. Revenue is managed service, which suits a buyer who wants the cost to track the value rather than the seat count.
| Total addressable market | $546M |
|---|---|
| Category growth (CAGR) | 13% |
| Annual contract value | $11k – $160k |
| Pricing model | Managed service |
| Time to first revenue | 86 days |
| Startup cost to MVP | $3.0k – $10k |
| Build effort | Weekend |
Monitoring infrastructure became a commodity. Public safety is growing at roughly 14% a year, and this job has not been re-tooled since it was designed around paper.
| Who | The gap |
|---|---|
| An offshore back office | Cheaper per hour, but does not scale down to the tail |
| The incumbent suite | Sells a platform; this job is one neglected module inside it |
| An internal hire | Works until volume doubles, then breaks again |
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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