A retrieval engine that handles risk assessment end to end and hands a human the exceptions rather than the queue. Aimed at construction owner-operators, catching the error before it becomes a change order.
In short: Risk Scorer for Construction, Run by Retrieval is a retrieval engine aimed at construction owner-operators, covering risk assessment. It scores 71/100 on AltF Ideas, carried by timing (94) and held back by monetisation (35). Typical pricing is $1.0k–$20k per customer per year, with a first version reachable in about a quarter for $14k–$41k.
Construction teams lose risk scored by whoever is free that afternoon. It is the kind of task that is too small to fund and too costly to ignore. Most operators assume this is simply the cost of doing business.
A retrieval engine that handles risk assessment end to end and hands a human the exceptions rather than the queue. 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) | 18% |
| Annual contract value | $1.0k – $20k |
| Pricing model | Seat SaaS |
| Time to first revenue | 37 days |
| Startup cost to MVP | $14k – $41k |
| 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 generalist AI tool | No domain grounding, so output needs full human review |
| 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 |
Trust has to be earned before anyone lets this run unsupervised.
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