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Point a document parser at quoting & estimating, and let people review output instead of producing it. Aimed at solar owner-operators, holding service constant on a smaller team.
In short: Solar Quote Builder is a document parser aimed at solar owner-operators, covering quoting & estimating. It scores 72/100 on AltF Ideas, carried by feasibility (94) and held back by moat (28). Typical pricing is $2.6k–$51k per customer per year, with a first version reachable in a weekend for $2.0k–$7.0k.
Solar teams lose quotes that take three days and still miss margin. Nobody owns this process, which is exactly why it keeps breaking. It scales linearly with headcount, so growth makes it worse rather than better.
A narrow document parser scoped to quoting & estimating alone — no platform, no migration, no six-month rollout. Revenue is usage-based, which suits a buyer who wants the cost to track the value rather than the seat count.
| Total addressable market | $471M |
|---|---|
| Category growth (CAGR) | 27% |
| Annual contract value | $2.6k – $51k |
| Pricing model | Usage-based |
| Time to first revenue | 38 days |
| Startup cost to MVP | $2.0k – $7.0k |
| Build effort | Weekend |
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 |
|---|---|
| A spreadsheet | The real incumbent in most of the market, and it is free |
| An internal hire | Works until volume doubles, then breaks again |
| The incumbent suite | Sells a platform; this job is one neglected module inside it |
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