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A retrieval engine that sits beside the existing system, reads what it already produces, and closes grant & funding tracking. Aimed at utilities ops teams, catching the error before it becomes a change order.
In short: Utilities Grant Tracker is a retrieval engine aimed at utilities ops managers, covering grant & funding tracking. It scores 71/100 on AltF Ideas, carried by moat (95) and held back by demand (45). Typical pricing is $1.1k–$21k per customer per year, with a first version reachable in a weekend for $2.5k–$6.0k.
Utilities teams lose reporting deadlines discovered the week they are due. A typical utilities operation runs this on people, memory, and a shared spreadsheet. The error rate is tolerated because measuring it would cost more than the errors.
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 | $1.5B |
|---|---|
| Category growth (CAGR) | 9% |
| Annual contract value | $1.1k – $21k |
| Pricing model | Seat SaaS |
| Time to first revenue | 49 days |
| Startup cost to MVP | $2.5k – $6.0k |
| Build effort | Weekend |
Retrieval over private documents became cheap enough to run per query. 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 |
|---|---|
| An offshore back office | Cheaper per hour, but does not scale down to the tail |
| A generalist AI tool | No domain grounding, so output needs full human review |
| A vertical competitor | Priced and scoped for enterprise accounts, not this segment |
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