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Payroll verification handled by a reconciliation engine, with a human signing rather than writing. Aimed at utilities field supervisors, catching the error before it becomes a change order.
In short: Payroll Verifier for Utilities Field Supervisors is a reconciliation engine aimed at utilities field supervisors, covering payroll verification. It scores 72/100 on AltF Ideas, carried by monetisation (95) and held back by timing (36). Typical pricing is $5.0k–$108k per customer per year, with a first version reachable in about a month for $6.0k–$18k.
Utilities teams lose payroll errors found by the employee, not the system. A typical utilities operation runs this on people, memory, and a shared spreadsheet. The error rate is tolerated because measuring it would cost more than the errors.
A narrow reconciliation engine scoped to payroll verification 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 | $799M |
|---|---|
| Category growth (CAGR) | 10% |
| Annual contract value | $5.0k – $108k |
| Pricing model | Per-outcome |
| Time to first revenue | 76 days |
| Startup cost to MVP | $6.0k – $18k |
| Build effort | ~1 month |
Systems that never talked now expose APIs by default. Utilities is growing at roughly 11% 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.
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