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A document parser that sits beside the existing system, reads what it already produces, and closes payroll verification. Aimed at hvac & plumbing field supervisors, surfacing the exposure nobody has priced.
In short: Payroll Verifier for HVAC & plumbing, Run by Extraction is a document parser aimed at hvac & plumbing field supervisors, covering payroll verification. It scores 73/100 on AltF Ideas, carried by feasibility (96) and held back by moat (31). Typical pricing is $1.0k–$20k per customer per year, with a first version reachable in a weekend for $2.0k–$5.0k.
HVAC & plumbing teams lose payroll errors found by the employee, not the system. A typical hvac & plumbing operation runs this on people, memory, and a shared spreadsheet. The cost is invisible on any P&L line, which is why it never gets fixed.
A narrow document parser scoped to payroll verification alone — no platform, no migration, no six-month rollout. Revenue is seat saas, which suits a buyer who wants the cost to track the value rather than the seat count.
| Total addressable market | $948M |
|---|---|
| Category growth (CAGR) | 14% |
| Annual contract value | $1.0k – $20k |
| Pricing model | Seat SaaS |
| Time to first revenue | 46 days |
| Startup cost to MVP | $2.0k – $5.0k |
| Build effort | Weekend |
Document parsing stopped needing per-layout templates. 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 |
|---|---|
| An internal hire | Works until volume doubles, then breaks again |
| 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 |
Trust has to be earned before anyone lets this run unsupervised.
An idea you cannot act on is entertainment. Four concrete steps, wired to tools already running on AltFTool.
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