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A document parser that sits beside the existing system, reads what it already produces, and closes pricing. Aimed at hvac & plumbing owner-operators, surfacing the exposure nobody has priced.
In short: Pricing Engine for HVAC & plumbing, Run by Extraction is a document parser aimed at hvac & plumbing owner-operators, covering pricing. It scores 75/100 on AltF Ideas, carried by demand (84) and held back by feasibility (46). Typical pricing is $5.1k–$102k per customer per year, with a first version reachable in six to twelve months for $41k–$106k.
HVAC & plumbing teams lose a price list last revised when costs were 30% lower. The work sits between two systems that were never designed to talk. It scales linearly with headcount, so growth makes it worse rather than better.
A document parser that handles pricing end to end and hands a human the exceptions rather than the queue. Revenue is take-rate, which suits a buyer who wants the cost to track the value rather than the seat count.
| Total addressable market | $605M |
|---|---|
| Category growth (CAGR) | 16% |
| Annual contract value | $5.1k – $102k |
| Pricing model | Take-rate |
| Time to first revenue | 62 days |
| Startup cost to MVP | $41k – $106k |
| Build effort | 6-12 months |
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 |
|---|---|
| A spreadsheet | The real incumbent in most of the market, and it is free |
| An internal hire | Works until volume doubles, then breaks again |
| A generalist AI tool | No domain grounding, so output needs full human review |
The data you need lives on paper in a back office; digitisation is half the product.
An idea you cannot act on is entertainment. Four concrete steps, wired to tools already running on AltFTool.
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