A workflow engine that sits beside the existing system, reads what it already produces, and closes permit & licence tracking. Aimed at home care schedulers, starting from data the business already produces.
In short: Permit Tracker Built for Schedulers is a workflow engine aimed at home care schedulers, covering permit & licence tracking. It scores 72/100 on AltF Ideas, carried by feasibility (96) and held back by timing (45). Typical pricing is $1.2k–$24k per customer per year, with a first version reachable in a weekend for $2.0k–$6.0k.
Home care teams lose twelve portals refreshed by hand every morning. In most home care businesses this job has never had software written for it. The backlog only surfaces when a customer or an auditor finds it first.
A workflow engine that handles permit & licence tracking end to end and hands a human the exceptions rather than the queue. Revenue is seat saas, which suits a buyer who wants the cost to track the value rather than the seat count.
| Total addressable market | $534M |
|---|---|
| Category growth (CAGR) | 22% |
| Annual contract value | $1.2k – $24k |
| Pricing model | Seat SaaS |
| Time to first revenue | 44 days |
| Startup cost to MVP | $2.0k – $6.0k |
| Build effort | Weekend |
Connectors exist for systems that were closed five years ago. Home care is growing at roughly 20% 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 generalist AI tool | No domain grounding, so output needs full human review |
| An internal hire | Works until volume doubles, then breaks again |
Trust has to be earned before anyone lets this run unsupervised.
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