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Point a document parser at pricing, and let people review output instead of producing it. Aimed at telecom compliance leads, going after the low-value tail everyone else skips.
In short: Telecom Pricing Engine is a document parser aimed at telecom compliance leads, covering pricing. It scores 77/100 on AltF Ideas, carried by monetisation (87) and held back by timing (57). Typical pricing is $4.3k–$91k per customer per year, with a first version reachable in about a month for $4.5k–$14k.
Telecom teams lose a price list last revised when costs were 30% lower. Every telecom 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 sits beside the existing system, reads what it already produces, and closes pricing. Revenue is per-outcome, which suits a buyer who wants the cost to track the value rather than the seat count.
| Total addressable market | $1.4B |
|---|---|
| Category growth (CAGR) | 10% |
| Annual contract value | $4.3k – $91k |
| Pricing model | Per-outcome |
| Time to first revenue | 59 days |
| Startup cost to MVP | $4.5k – $14k |
| Build effort | ~1 month |
Document parsing stopped needing per-layout templates. Telecom is growing at roughly 11% 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 |
| An internal hire | Works until volume doubles, then breaks again |
| A spreadsheet | The real incumbent in most of the market, and it is free |
The buying cycle is slower than the build, so runway assumptions matter more than code.
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