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Point a document parser at intake & triage, and let people review output instead of producing it. Aimed at solar project managers, closing the loop while everyone is asleep.
In short: Solar Intake Triage is a document parser aimed at solar project managers, covering intake & triage. It scores 73/100 on AltF Ideas, carried by demand (88) and held back by open field (58). Typical pricing is $3.0k–$54k per customer per year, with a first version reachable in about a month for $7.0k–$25k.
Solar teams lose the front-desk queue that swallows 19 hours a week. Every solar team solves this the same way: someone stays late. The error rate is tolerated because measuring it would cost more than the errors.
A document parser that handles intake & triage end to end and hands a human the exceptions rather than the queue. Revenue is per-project, which suits a buyer who wants the cost to track the value rather than the seat count.
| Total addressable market | $319M |
|---|---|
| Category growth (CAGR) | 23% |
| Annual contract value | $3.0k – $54k |
| Pricing model | Per-project |
| Time to first revenue | 57 days |
| Startup cost to MVP | $7.0k – $25k |
| Build effort | ~1 month |
Document parsing stopped needing per-layout templates. 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 incumbent suite | Sells a platform; this job is one neglected module inside it |
Every customer wants their own edge cases encoded, so onboarding cost is the real constraint.
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