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A retrieval engine that handles risk assessment end to end and hands a human the exceptions rather than the queue. Aimed at hvac & plumbing dispatchers, finding what the inspector would find, first.
In short: Risk Scorer Built for Dispatchers is a retrieval engine aimed at hvac & plumbing dispatchers, covering risk assessment. It scores 75/100 on AltF Ideas, carried by moat (87) and held back by monetisation (47). Typical pricing is $900–$10k per customer per year, with a first version reachable in a weekend for $2.0k–$6.0k.
HVAC & plumbing teams lose risk scored by whoever is free that afternoon. In most hvac & plumbing businesses this job has never had software written for it. Most operators assume this is simply the cost of doing business.
A retrieval engine that sits beside the existing system, reads what it already produces, and closes risk assessment. Revenue is flat saas, which suits a buyer who wants the cost to track the value rather than the seat count.
| Total addressable market | $596M |
|---|---|
| Category growth (CAGR) | 16% |
| Annual contract value | $900 – $10k |
| Pricing model | Flat SaaS |
| Time to first revenue | 36 days |
| Startup cost to MVP | $2.0k – $6.0k |
| Build effort | Weekend |
Retrieval over private documents became cheap enough to run per query. 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
Integrations with the incumbent system of record are undocumented and gatekept.
An idea you cannot act on is entertainment. Four concrete steps, wired to tools already running on AltFTool.
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→ AltF IdeaLabAsk how they handle this today and what it costs them. If nobody can quantify the pain, the demand score is optimistic.
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