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A narrow anomaly detector scoped to payroll verification alone — no platform, no migration, no six-month rollout. Aimed at utilities field supervisors, holding service constant on a smaller team.
In short: Utilities Payroll Verifier on Anomaly is an anomaly detector aimed at utilities field supervisors, covering payroll verification. It scores 70/100 on AltF Ideas, carried by moat (91) and held back by monetisation (59). Typical pricing is $5.2k–$111k per customer per year, with a first version reachable in about a quarter for $18k–$48k.
Utilities teams lose payroll errors found by the employee, not the system. Every utilities team solves this the same way: someone stays late. Most operators assume this is simply the cost of doing business.
An anomaly detector that handles payroll verification end to end and hands a human the exceptions rather than the queue. Revenue is per-outcome, which suits a buyer who wants the cost to track the value rather than the seat count.
| Total addressable market | $813M |
|---|---|
| Category growth (CAGR) | 9% |
| Annual contract value | $5.2k – $111k |
| Pricing model | Per-outcome |
| Time to first revenue | 70 days |
| Startup cost to MVP | $18k – $48k |
| Build effort | ~1 quarter |
Streaming detection became practical without a dedicated data platform. 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 |
|---|---|
| The incumbent suite | Sells a platform; this job is one neglected module inside it |
| A vertical competitor | Priced and scoped for enterprise accounts, not this segment |
| A spreadsheet | The real incumbent in most of the market, and it is free |
The data you need lives on paper in a back office; digitisation is half the product.
An idea you cannot act on is entertainment. Four concrete steps, wired to tools already running on AltFTool.
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