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A narrow document parser scoped to grant & funding tracking alone — no platform, no migration, no six-month rollout. Aimed at utilities field supervisors, writing down what only one person knows.
In short: Utilities Grant Tracker is a document parser aimed at utilities field supervisors, covering grant & funding tracking. It scores 70/100 on AltF Ideas, carried by open field (95) and held back by demand (25). Typical pricing is $13k–$195k per customer per year, with a first version reachable in a weekend for $2.5k–$7.0k.
Utilities teams lose reporting deadlines discovered the week they are due. A typical utilities operation runs this on people, memory, and a shared spreadsheet. Most operators assume this is simply the cost of doing business.
A document parser that sits beside the existing system, reads what it already produces, and closes grant & funding tracking. Revenue is managed service, which suits a buyer who wants the cost to track the value rather than the seat count.
| Total addressable market | $916M |
|---|---|
| Category growth (CAGR) | 8% |
| Annual contract value | $13k – $195k |
| Pricing model | Managed service |
| Time to first revenue | 80 days |
| Startup cost to MVP | $2.5k – $7.0k |
| Build effort | Weekend |
Document parsing stopped needing per-layout templates. Utilities is growing at roughly 11% a year, and this job has not been re-tooled since it was designed around paper.
| Who | The gap |
|---|---|
| A vertical competitor | Priced and scoped for enterprise accounts, not this segment |
| The incumbent suite | Sells a platform; this job is one neglected module inside it |
| A spreadsheet | The real incumbent in most of the market, and it is free |
The incumbent is a person, and displacing a person is a change-management problem.
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