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A narrow workflow engine scoped to permit & licence tracking alone — no platform, no migration, no six-month rollout. Aimed at construction project managers, finding what the inspector would find, first.
In short: Permit Tracker Built for Project Managers is a workflow engine aimed at construction project managers, covering permit & licence tracking. It scores 73/100 on AltF Ideas, carried by demand (93) and held back by timing (31). Typical pricing is $1.4k–$27k per customer per year, with a first version reachable in about a month for $7.0k–$20k.
Construction teams lose twelve portals refreshed by hand every morning. In most construction businesses this job has never had software written for it. Whoever knows how it works becomes a single point of failure.
Point a workflow engine at permit & licence tracking, and let people review output instead of producing it. Revenue is seat saas, which suits a buyer who wants the cost to track the value rather than the seat count.
| Total addressable market | $827M |
|---|---|
| Category growth (CAGR) | 21% |
| Annual contract value | $1.4k – $27k |
| Pricing model | Seat SaaS |
| Time to first revenue | 53 days |
| Startup cost to MVP | $7.0k – $20k |
| Build effort | ~1 month |
Connectors exist for systems that were closed five years ago. Construction is growing at roughly 20% 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 |
| 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 |
The buying cycle is slower than the build, so runway assumptions matter more than code.
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.
→ Survey BuilderCheck availability, DNS, and email authentication in one pass so your first outreach lands in an inbox.
→ AltF DomainOpsStand up intake, the review queue, and billing before you build the clever part.
→ AltF Flow