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A reconciliation engine that handles payroll verification end to end and hands a human the exceptions rather than the queue. Aimed at hvac & plumbing dispatchers, catching the error before it becomes a change order.
In short: Payroll Verifier Built for Dispatchers is a reconciliation engine aimed at hvac & plumbing dispatchers, covering payroll verification. It scores 73/100 on AltF Ideas, carried by demand (92) and held back by open field (36). Typical pricing is $2.3k–$46k per customer per year, with a first version reachable in about a quarter for $17k–$40k.
HVAC & plumbing teams lose payroll errors found by the employee, not the system. Every hvac & plumbing team solves this the same way: someone stays late. The error rate is tolerated because measuring it would cost more than the errors.
A reconciliation engine that handles payroll verification 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 | $554M |
|---|---|
| Category growth (CAGR) | 16% |
| Annual contract value | $2.3k – $46k |
| Pricing model | Usage-based |
| Time to first revenue | 34 days |
| Startup cost to MVP | $17k – $40k |
| Build effort | ~1 quarter |
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 |
|---|---|
| A vertical competitor | Priced and scoped for enterprise accounts, not this segment |
| A spreadsheet | The real incumbent in most of the market, and it is free |
| An offshore back office | Cheaper per hour, but does not scale down to the tail |
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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