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An optimisation engine that handles route planning end to end and hands a human the exceptions rather than the queue. Aimed at hvac & plumbing owner-operators, surfacing the exposure nobody has priced.
In short: Optimisation Route Optimiser for HVAC & plumbing is an optimisation engine aimed at hvac & plumbing owner-operators, covering route planning. It scores 76/100 on AltF Ideas, carried by monetisation (95) and held back by feasibility (35). Typical pricing is $3.8k–$80k per customer per year, with a first version reachable in six to twelve months for $28k–$90k.
HVAC & plumbing teams lose routes cut once a year and patched ever since. Every hvac & plumbing team solves this the same way: someone stays late. Whoever knows how it works becomes a single point of failure.
A narrow optimisation engine scoped to route planning alone — no platform, no migration, no six-month rollout. Revenue is per-outcome, which suits a buyer who wants the cost to track the value rather than the seat count.
| Total addressable market | $932M |
|---|---|
| Category growth (CAGR) | 17% |
| Annual contract value | $3.8k – $80k |
| Pricing model | Per-outcome |
| Time to first revenue | 69 days |
| Startup cost to MVP | $28k – $90k |
| Build effort | 6-12 months |
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 |
|---|---|
| A generalist AI tool | No domain grounding, so output needs full human review |
| An offshore back office | Cheaper per hour, but does not scale down to the tail |
| A vertical competitor | Priced and scoped for enterprise accounts, not this segment |
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.
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.
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→ AltF DomainOpsStand up intake, the review queue, and billing before you build the clever part.
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