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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 trade schools program directors, surfacing the exposure nobody has priced.
In short: Payroll Verifier Built for Program Directors is a reconciliation engine aimed at trade schools program directors, covering payroll verification. It scores 70/100 on AltF Ideas, carried by monetisation (92) and held back by feasibility (34). Typical pricing is $4.1k–$88k per customer per year, with a first version reachable in six to twelve months for $30k–$76k.
Trade schools teams lose payroll errors found by the employee, not the system. A typical trade schools operation runs this on people, memory, and a shared spreadsheet. Whoever knows how it works becomes a single point of failure.
A reconciliation engine that handles payroll verification end to end and hands a human the exceptions rather than the queue. Revenue is per-outcome, which suits a buyer who wants the cost to track the value rather than the seat count.
| Total addressable market | $296M |
|---|---|
| Category growth (CAGR) | 18% |
| Annual contract value | $4.1k – $88k |
| Pricing model | Per-outcome |
| Time to first revenue | 81 days |
| Startup cost to MVP | $30k – $76k |
| Build effort | 6-12 months |
Systems that never talked now expose APIs by default. Trade schools is growing at roughly 15% a year, and this job has not been re-tooled since it was designed around paper.
| Who | The gap |
|---|---|
| A spreadsheet | The real incumbent in most of the market, and it is free |
| An internal hire | Works until volume doubles, then breaks again |
| The incumbent suite | Sells a platform; this job is one neglected module inside it |
Integrations with the incumbent system of record are undocumented and gatekept.
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