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A narrow long-context reviewer scoped to RFP response alone — no platform, no migration, no six-month rollout. Aimed at hvac & plumbing field supervisors, finding what the inspector would find, first.
In short: RFP Responder for HVAC & plumbing, Run by Long context is a long-context reviewer aimed at hvac & plumbing field supervisors, covering RFP response. It scores 73/100 on AltF Ideas, carried by monetisation (93) and held back by feasibility (30). Typical pricing is $3.7k–$80k per customer per year, with a first version reachable in six to twelve months for $39k–$107k.
HVAC & plumbing teams lose a 200-question RFP answered by six people over a week. A typical hvac & plumbing operation runs this on people, memory, and a shared spreadsheet. The backlog only surfaces when a customer or an auditor finds it first.
RFP response handled by a long-context reviewer, with a human signing rather than writing. Revenue is per-outcome, which suits a buyer who wants the cost to track the value rather than the seat count.
| Total addressable market | $811M |
|---|---|
| Category growth (CAGR) | 18% |
| Annual contract value | $3.7k – $80k |
| Pricing model | Per-outcome |
| Time to first revenue | 74 days |
| Startup cost to MVP | $39k – $107k |
| Build effort | 6-12 months |
Million-token context windows made whole-document reasoning possible in one pass. 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 |
|---|---|
| An internal hire | Works until volume doubles, then breaks again |
| An offshore back office | Cheaper per hour, but does not scale down to the tail |
| A spreadsheet | The real incumbent in most of the market, and it is free |
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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