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A retrieval engine that handles claims & appeals end to end and hands a human the exceptions rather than the queue. Aimed at construction ops teams, replacing the spreadsheet that currently holds it together.
In short: Retrieval Appeal Drafter for Construction is a retrieval engine aimed at construction ops managers, covering claims & appeals. It scores 72/100 on AltF Ideas, carried by demand (92) and held back by monetisation (60). Typical pricing is $1.2k–$24k per customer per year, with a first version reachable in about a quarter for $14k–$31k.
Construction teams lose denials abandoned because appealing costs more than the claim. It is the kind of task that is too small to fund and too costly to ignore. The backlog only surfaces when a customer or an auditor finds it first.
Claims & appeals handled by a retrieval engine, with a human signing rather than writing. Revenue is seat saas, which suits a buyer who wants the cost to track the value rather than the seat count.
| Total addressable market | $1.3B |
|---|---|
| Category growth (CAGR) | 23% |
| Annual contract value | $1.2k – $24k |
| Pricing model | Seat SaaS |
| Time to first revenue | 40 days |
| Startup cost to MVP | $14k – $31k |
| Build effort | ~1 quarter |
Retrieval over private documents became cheap enough to run per query. 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| A vertical competitor | Priced and scoped for enterprise accounts, not this segment |
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.
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