A narrow reconciliation engine scoped to payroll verification alone — no platform, no migration, no six-month rollout. Aimed at recruiting recruiters, writing down what only one person knows.
In short: Recruiting Payroll Verifier is a reconciliation engine aimed at recruiting recruiters, covering payroll verification. It scores 75/100 on AltF Ideas, carried by monetisation (85) and held back by open field (36). Typical pricing is $2.5k–$50k per customer per year, with a first version reachable in a weekend for $2.5k–$9.0k.
Recruiting teams lose payroll errors found by the employee, not the system. A typical recruiting operation runs this on people, memory, and a shared spreadsheet. The cost is invisible on any P&L line, which is why it never gets fixed.
Point a reconciliation engine at payroll verification, and let people review output instead of producing it. Revenue is usage-based, which suits a buyer who wants the cost to track the value rather than the seat count.
| Total addressable market | $493M |
|---|---|
| Category growth (CAGR) | 15% |
| Annual contract value | $2.5k – $50k |
| Pricing model | Usage-based |
| Time to first revenue | 35 days |
| Startup cost to MVP | $2.5k – $9.0k |
| Build effort | Weekend |
Systems that never talked now expose APIs by default. Recruiting is growing at roughly 15% 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 |
| A spreadsheet | The real incumbent in most of the market, and it is free |
| A vertical competitor | Priced and scoped for enterprise accounts, not this segment |
Accuracy is unforgiving here — one wrong output costs more than the subscription.
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