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A retrieval engine that handles grant & funding tracking end to end and hands a human the exceptions rather than the queue. Aimed at solar project managers, charging only when it actually works.
In short: Solar Grant Tracker is a retrieval engine aimed at solar project managers, covering grant & funding tracking. It scores 76/100 on AltF Ideas, carried by moat (92) and held back by demand (53). Typical pricing is $1.0k–$19k per customer per year, with a first version reachable in about a month for $6.5k–$18k.
Solar teams lose reporting deadlines discovered the week they are due. Every solar team solves this the same way: someone stays late. It scales linearly with headcount, so growth makes it worse rather than better.
Point a retrieval engine at grant & funding tracking, and let people review output instead of producing it. Revenue is seat saas, which suits a buyer who wants the cost to track the value rather than the seat count.
| Total addressable market | $760M |
|---|---|
| Category growth (CAGR) | 24% |
| Annual contract value | $1.0k – $19k |
| Pricing model | Seat SaaS |
| Time to first revenue | 43 days |
| Startup cost to MVP | $6.5k – $18k |
| Build effort | ~1 month |
Retrieval over private documents became cheap enough to run per query. Solar is growing at roughly 24% 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 |
| A vertical competitor | Priced and scoped for enterprise accounts, not this segment |
| 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.
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