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Permit & licence tracking handled by an anomaly detector, with a human signing rather than writing. Aimed at solar project managers, charging only when it actually works.
In short: Permit Tracker for Solar Project Managers is an anomaly detector aimed at solar project managers, covering permit & licence tracking. It scores 71/100 on AltF Ideas, carried by demand (88) and held back by open field (31). Typical pricing is $3.7k–$78k per customer per year, with a first version reachable in six to twelve months for $44k–$153k.
Solar teams lose twelve portals refreshed by hand every morning. Nobody owns this process, which is exactly why it keeps breaking. The backlog only surfaces when a customer or an auditor finds it first.
An anomaly detector that sits beside the existing system, reads what it already produces, and closes permit & licence tracking. Revenue is per-outcome, which suits a buyer who wants the cost to track the value rather than the seat count.
| Total addressable market | $679M |
|---|---|
| Category growth (CAGR) | 23% |
| Annual contract value | $3.7k – $78k |
| Pricing model | Per-outcome |
| Time to first revenue | 63 days |
| Startup cost to MVP | $44k – $153k |
| Build effort | 6-12 months |
Streaming detection became practical without a dedicated data platform. Solar is growing at roughly 24% a year, and this job has not been re-tooled since it was designed around paper.
| Who | The gap |
|---|---|
| The incumbent suite | Sells a platform; this job is one neglected module inside it |
| 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 |
The incumbent is a person, and displacing a person is a change-management problem.
An idea you cannot act on is entertainment. Four concrete steps, wired to tools already running on AltFTool.
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