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Quoting & estimating handled by a document parser, with a human signing rather than writing. Aimed at utilities field supervisors, writing down what only one person knows.
In short: Utilities Quote Builder is a document parser aimed at utilities field supervisors, covering quoting & estimating. It scores 78/100 on AltF Ideas, carried by open field (91) and held back by timing (72). Typical pricing is $5.5k–$82k per customer per year, with a first version reachable in about a month for $5.0k–$13k.
Utilities teams lose quotes that take three days and still miss margin. A typical utilities operation runs this on people, memory, and a shared spreadsheet. The cost is invisible on any P&L line, which is why it never gets fixed.
A narrow document parser scoped to quoting & estimating alone — no platform, no migration, no six-month rollout. Revenue is data subscription, which suits a buyer who wants the cost to track the value rather than the seat count.
| Total addressable market | $498M |
|---|---|
| Category growth (CAGR) | 11% |
| Annual contract value | $5.5k – $82k |
| Pricing model | Data subscription |
| Time to first revenue | 54 days |
| Startup cost to MVP | $5.0k – $13k |
| Build effort | ~1 month |
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 |
|---|---|
| The incumbent suite | Sells a platform; this job is one neglected module inside it |
| 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 |
Every customer wants their own edge cases encoded, so onboarding cost is the real constraint.
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