Labor shortage intelligence platform for trades and construction businesses
Aggregates public data signals (Google reviews, conference patterns, hiring posts) to identify geographic markets and trade verticals with acute labor shortages, enabling service providers and staffing agencies to target high-demand areas.
Aggregates public signals (reviews, hiring posts, conference data) to rank US metros by trades labor shortage severity for staffing agencies and contractors.
- Business model
- B2B SaaS subscription
- Industry
- constructiontech / labor intelligence
- Difficulty
- 1–2 weeks
- Est. startup cost
- $150-$300
- Time to MVP
- 3-6 weeks
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Problem evidence
Staffing agencies and trades contractors expanding into new geographic markets have no systematic way to identify where labor shortages are genuine versus saturated. They currently rely on anecdotal referrals, sales rep intuition, or expensive manual research, leading to misallocated prospecting budgets and failed market entries.
- Who feels it
- Regional staffing agencies, labor brokers, and trades contractors (HVAC, plumbing, electrical, roofing) actively expanding beyond their home markets.
- How often
- Hits every time a firm evaluates a new metro for expansion or a new vertical for recruiting focus, typically quarterly for agencies and annually for contractors.
- Why current fixes fail
- Existing tools like ZipRecruiter and Indeed give job-posting volume data but not shortage severity or market whitespace. No tool triangulates Google review sentiment, conference attendance anomalies, and hiring post density into a single ranked market intelligence view.
Claims and evidence
- Mining Google reviews of trades businesses can surface specific cities with genuine labor shortages not visible in job board data.[1]medium
- Conference booth buyer lists contain detectable cross-industry anomalies (e.g., accounting firms at steel expos) that signal market stress or expansion pressure.[1]medium
- Staffing agencies and contractors already spend an estimated $500-$5000/month on recruiting tools such as ZipRecruiter and Indeed Ads, establishing a payment habit for labor market data.mediumneeds validation
- Post-pandemic labor volatility has made shortage patterns more visible in public signals, lowering the cost of detecting genuine shortfalls without proprietary survey data.lowneeds validation
- Adjacent B2B labor intelligence platforms (ZipRecruiter) have demonstrated $100M+ ARR, validating sustained willingness to pay in this category.mediumneeds validation
- A niche SaaS serving 50-150 trades/staffing customers at an average $500/month ACV could yield an estimated $25k-$75k MRR, though no live revenue proof exists for this specific product.lowneeds validation
Who buys it
- User
- Operations managers, business development leads, or owner-operators at staffing agencies and regional trades firms who run market expansion decisions.
- Buyer
- Agency principal, VP of Sales, or trades contractor owner who controls the recruiting and business development budget.
- Pain owner
- Staffing agency owners who lose placement fees by targeting low-shortage markets and miss high-margin opportunities in acute-shortage metros.
- Budget source
- Recruiting and business development budget, often already allocated to ZipRecruiter, Indeed Ads, or CRM tools.
- Urgency
- Spikes when a firm is evaluating a new market entry, responding to a large client RFP covering multiple regions, or reacting to a failed expansion; moderate baseline urgency year-round.
Already spending on
- ZipRecruiter
- Indeed Ads
- Buildr CRM
- LinkedIn Recruiter
- local trade association memberships
- manual market research or sales consultants
Product concept and MVP
- Concierge version
- Before any dashboard, run the analysis manually for 2-3 paying pilot customers at $299/month each. Each week, pull Google review mentions, scrape 50-100 Indeed trade job postings per metro, and compile a ranked shortage score in a shared Google Sheet delivered by email. Use this to validate which signals customers actually act on before automating anything.
- Vibe-coded version
- Use Lovable or v0 to scaffold a Next.js dashboard with sortable tables and basic charts; wire Supabase for user auth and CSV exports. Hand-code a Node.js worker (Cursor + Claude) that pulls Google Places API reviews + job posting density from Indeed/LinkedIn via web scraping or free job APIs weekly, runs sentiment + keyword extraction via OpenAI's API to flag staffing-gap language, and stores aggregated scores by metro/trade in Postgres. Deploy the dashboard on Vercel, the worker as a scheduled Cloud Function (free tier) or Render cron job. Skip: real-time refresh, advanced ML, proprietary data licensing. Focus: getting 3–5 metros ranked with live review + job data and shipping CSV export by week two.
Must have
- Metro-level shortage ranking dashboard with sortable scores by trade vertical (HVAC, electrical, plumbing, roofing)
- Keyword-weighted review sentiment scoring that surfaces staffing-gap language from Google review text
- Weekly data refresh pipeline pulling from at least two public signals (reviews + job posting density)
- CSV export of ranked markets with underlying signal breakdown
- User authentication and tier-based access control (limiting monitored markets by plan level)
Nice to have
- Conference booth concentration anomaly detector flagging unexpected industry crossovers as demand signals
- Email digest with weekly shortage movement alerts (markets rising or falling in shortage score)
- Saved market watchlists with custom alert thresholds per user
- API endpoint for premium tier customers to pull data into their own CRMs
Not yet
- Mobile app or native iOS/Android experience
- Predictive modeling or ML-based shortage forecasting
- Direct integration with staffing CRMs (Bullhorn, Buildr) until core signal validity is proven
- International or Canadian market coverage
- Integrations
- Google Places API or third-party review aggregator (e.g., Outscraper) for review volume and text, Indeed or LinkedIn job posting scrape for open-role density by metro and trade keyword, Optional: conference exhibitor list ingestion via manual CSV upload or PDF parser (Docparser), Stripe for subscription billing and plan tier enforcement
- Build difficulty
- Low-to-moderate: core scraping, scoring, and dashboard can be assembled by a solo technical founder in 4-8 weeks using Python scripts plus a no-code frontend; the main complexity is signal weighting logic and keeping scrapers reliable as source sites update.
This is a demo MVP preview, not a functioning product.
Competitors and alternatives
Direct
- No known direct competitor aggregating public signals (reviews, conference data, hiring posts) specifically to rank geographic labor shortage intensity for trades/construction markets
Indirect
- ZipRecruiter labor market insights dashboard
- Indeed Hiring Lab regional data reports
- Apollo.io for contact/company intelligence by geography
- Lightcast (formerly EMSI Burning Glass) for labor market analytics
- Buildr CRM for construction staffing workflows
Workarounds
- Manually browsing Google reviews of trades businesses in target cities
- Hiring a VA to scrape Indeed postings and compile spreadsheets by metro
- Attending regional trade conferences and doing informal competitor headcounts
- Asking existing clients informally which markets they are struggling to staff
- Using ChatGPT to summarize job posting language trends by city
| Name | Customer | Pricing | Strengths | Weaknesses | Opportunity gap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lightcast (EMSI Burning Glass) | Workforce boards, universities, enterprise HR | Estimated $15,000-$50,000/year enterprise contracts | Deep historical labor market data, government-grade methodology, strong brand in workforce analytics | Priced out of SMB staffing agencies and regional contractors; lags real-time signals by months; no trades-specific scoring or conference pattern detection | Leaves the $500-$5,000/month SMB buyer with no real-time, trades-specific geographic shortage signal |
| ZipRecruiter | Employers across all industries including trades | $299/month entry tier (publicly listed) | Large job-seeker network, brand recognition, some metro-level demand signals embedded in platform | Demand signals locked inside their platform; no exportable geographic shortage rankings; no conference or review signal aggregation; not a market intelligence tool | Proves willingness to pay at the exact price point ($299/month) but delivers zero geographic expansion intelligence; a pure posting tool |
| Apollo.io | Sales and recruiting teams across industries | $49-$229/month (publicly listed tiered SaaS) | Massive contact database, strong UI, proven B2B SaaS GTM in the hiring-adjacent space | Contact and company data, not labor shortage geography; no trades-vertical signal weighting; no review sentiment or conference anomaly layer | Addresses who to reach, not where shortages are acute; a labor shortage intelligence layer is a natural pre-funnel complement to Apollo workflows |
| Indeed Hiring Lab | Media, HR analysts, enterprise strategy teams | Free public reports; no direct commercial product at SMB tier | Massive underlying job posting dataset, credible research output, national media reach | Reports are public, backward-looking, and not actionable at the metro-plus-trade-vertical level; no API or dashboard for agency use; no review or conference signal layer | Data exists but is never packaged as a ranked, actionable shortage score a staffing agency can act on this week |
| Buildr | Construction staffing agencies and labor brokers | Estimated $300-$800/month based on comparable niche CRMs | Trades-specific CRM workflow, understands the construction staffing buyer deeply | CRM and pipeline management only; no market intelligence or geographic shortage ranking; no inbound signal aggregation from public data | Serves the same exact buyer but stops at workflow; a shortage intelligence feed would be a direct integration or upstream trigger for Buildr users |
No tool at SMB price points ($299-$999/month) delivers ranked, real-time geographic labor shortage intelligence specific to trades verticals, derived from public signals like review velocity, hiring post density, and conference attendance anomalies. Every existing product either costs enterprise-level, serves generic industries, or focuses on workflow rather than where-to-expand intelligence.
Pricing model
| Competitor | Pricing estimate | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Apollo.io | ~$49-$229/user/mo (public) | B2B contact and sales intelligence; overlaps on prospecting workflow but not trades-specific or geographic labor shortage focused |
| ZipRecruiter | ~$29-$299/mo per employer (public) | Job posting reach for staffing and contractors; reactive hiring tool, not predictive market intelligence |
| Guidepoint | Enterprise; estimated $10k-$50k/yr seat-based (not public) | Niche market intelligence via expert networks; validates WTP for proprietary signals but targets larger enterprises |
| Buildr | Estimated $300-$600/mo (not confirmed public) | Construction-sector CRM and prospecting tool; closest vertical match but not labor shortage intelligence |
Staffing agencies and regional contractors already spend $300-$5000/month on recruiting and prospecting tools, anchoring willingness to pay in the $299-$999/mo range for a specialized labor intelligence add-on. The platform occupies a gap between cheap job-board tools (ZipRecruiter) and expensive enterprise intelligence (Guidepoint), justifying a mid-market SaaS price. The geographic scarcity signal and proprietary pattern-matching (e.g., conference anomaly detection) support a premium over generic contact databases like Apollo.
- starter$299/mo
- SMB staffing agencies or single-trade contractors monitoring up to 5 metros, weekly data refresh, CSV export
- pro$599/mo
- Regional firms monitoring up to 20 metros across 3 trade verticals, daily refresh, CRM integrations
- enterprise$999-$1,499/mo
- National staffing agencies or multi-market labor brokers needing API access, custom alerts, and white-label exports
Confidence: medium. Competitor pricing for adjacent tools is publicly available and anchors the range; WTP specifically for geographic labor shortage intelligence in trades is unproven at launch and requires direct customer validation
Revenue scenarios
| Case | Customers | ARPA / mo | MRR | ARR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| base | ~60 | ~$450 | ~$27,000 | ~$324,000 |
| upside | ~150 | ~$550 | ~$82,500 | ~$990,000 |
| aggressive | ~300 | ~$700 | ~$210,000 | ~$2,520,000 |
Assumptions
- Addressable paying pool in year 1-2 estimated at 500-2000 reachable firms (staffing agencies and regional contractors with budget for SaaS tools); based on rough count of mid-market trades staffing agencies and multi-market contractors in US
- Conversion from trial or outreach estimated at 3-8% given niche value prop and need for founder-led sales education
- Average contract length 6-12 months; monthly churn estimated 4-7% given budget scrutiny at SMB level and seasonal contractor spending patterns
- ARPA skews toward $450-$700/mo as most early customers will land on Pro tier; Starter tier anchors entry, Enterprise tier pulls up average over time
- Sales cycle estimated 2-6 weeks for SMB staffing agencies; longer (6-12 weeks) for regional multi-market contractors requiring demo and ROI proof
- No meaningful competition from a direct trades labor shortage intelligence SaaS today; risk is build-vs-buy from larger players like Apollo or ZipRecruiter adding geographic filters
- Aggressive case assumes successful channel partnerships with trades associations or staffing industry groups (e.g., ASA, NECA) to accelerate distribution
Revenue forecast is an estimate, not a prediction. It depends on customer acquisition, retention, pricing power, and product quality.
Market size
- Target customers
- Estimated 8,000-15,000 potential target firms in the US: roughly 3,000-5,000 trades-focused staffing agencies and labor brokers plus 5,000-10,000 regional multi-trade contractors (HVAC, electrical, plumbing, roofing) with 10+ employees and active expansion plans. Basis: BLS and Census NAICS data for construction staffing and specialty trade contractors, filtered for firm size indicating budget capacity. Sources: []
- Spend per year
- Each target customer could reasonably pay $3,600-$12,000/year depending on tier; comparable to current spend on ZipRecruiter or Apollo subscriptions at similar or higher price points
- Reachability
- Moderate difficulty. Staffing agencies are reachable via LinkedIn, ASA (American Staffing Association) directories, and cold outbound. Regional contractors are fragmented and harder to reach at scale without trade association partnerships or SEO-driven inbound; founder-led sales with direct outreach is feasible at MVP stage.
- Obtainable in 3 yrs
- Realistically 150-400 paying customers in 3 years assuming founder-led sales in year 1 (20-60 customers), word-of-mouth and light content marketing in year 2 (60-150 total), and possible channel or partnership leverage in year 3 (150-400 total)
- Comparable revenue
- ZipRecruiter reported $100M+ ARR at IPO (2021); Apollo.io estimated at $100M+ ARR. These are adjacent labor/sales intelligence platforms at scale, not direct comps. No direct comparable for niche trades labor shortage intelligence SaaS is publicly known.
Go to market
First 10 users
- 1.Post the specific 'accounting firms at steel conferences' finding as a LinkedIn thread targeting staffing agency owners and construction business development leads; offer a free one-market shortage report to commenters who DM you
- 2.Identify 20-30 regional HVAC, plumbing, and electrical staffing agencies on LinkedIn Sales Navigator; cold DM with a one-page PDF showing shortage rankings for 3 metros they likely operate in, ask for a 15-minute call
- 3.Find active threads on r/Construction, r/HVAC, and r/Entrepreneur where contractors complain about finding workers; post a genuine comment with a teaser data insight and link to a waitlist landing page
- 4.Attend or sponsor a virtual booth at one regional trades or construction staffing conference (e.g., ASA annual, AGC chapter events) and demo the dashboard live to 10-15 agency owners
- 5.Email 15 labor brokers directly sourced from conference exhibitor lists (public PDFs) with a free CSV of their region's top shortage markets, gated behind a 15-minute feedback call
- 6.Offer the first 10 paying customers a founder-tier price ($149/month locked) in exchange for a 30-minute recorded onboarding interview you can use as social proof
First 100 users
- Build a repeatable LinkedIn content loop: weekly posts sharing one surprising shortage signal (a specific metro, a specific trade) that demonstrate the proprietary methodology and generate inbound DMs from agency owners
- Partner with 2-3 trades-specific newsletters or podcasts (e.g., Construction Junkie, The HVAC School) for sponsored mentions or guest appearances; niche audiences here are exactly the buyer profile
- List on Product Hunt targeting the 'market intelligence' and 'recruiting tools' categories to capture B2B SaaS-aware buyers and generate early press mentions
- Create a free public 'Trades Labor Shortage Index' landing page (top 10 metros, refreshed monthly) as a SEO and lead magnet asset; gate the full 20-metro ranked list behind email signup, then convert to paid
- Run a targeted LinkedIn Ads campaign ($500-$1,500 test budget) to job titles 'VP Operations,' 'Business Development,' and 'Owner' at companies tagged as staffing or construction in metros you have strong data for
Scalable channels
- SEO content targeting high-intent queries like 'HVAC labor shortage [city]' and 'construction staffing shortage 2025' to capture organic demand from contractors researching expansion
- Integration partnerships with CRMs already serving trades staffing (Buildr, Bullhorn) where shortage intelligence becomes an embedded data feed, creating a distribution channel with pre-warmed buyers
- Annual conference presence at ASA (American Staffing Association) and AGC chapter events as a recurring lead generation motion with a live demo station
- Referral program where existing agency customers earn a free month for each paying referral, leveraging tight-knit regional staffing agency networks
- Vertical expansion to adjacent skilled trades (solar installation, data center construction) with dedicated sub-dashboards, each unlocking a new buyer segment with shared GTM infrastructure
GTM risks
- Hard-to-reach buyer: Regional trades contractors and small staffing agencies are time-poor, skeptical of new SaaS, and rarely respond to cold outreach without a warm referral or visible proof of ROI
- Long sales cycle risk at mid-market: Regional firms with 5-20 employees often require a decision-maker trial period of 30-60 days before converting, compressing early MRR ramp
- Signal credibility: Buyers may question whether Google review velocity or conference booth data is a reliable proxy for actual labor shortage; requires clear methodology documentation and early case studies
- Data freshness dependency: Weekly manual refresh (MVP constraint) may be insufficient for buyers making time-sensitive expansion decisions, creating churn risk if a competitor offers real-time signals
- Channel saturation: LinkedIn cold outreach to staffing agency owners is already crowded with recruiters and SaaS vendors, requiring a highly differentiated hook (specific data insight, not a generic demo ask) to break through
Roadmap
- v1core workflow
- Web dashboard ranking top 20 US metros by labor shortage signals derived from Google review velocity, keyword sentiment, and conference booth anomalies
- Manual weekly data refresh pipeline scraping public sources (Google Maps API, conference exhibitor lists, job board posting density)
- CSV export of market rankings with signal breakdown per metro and trade vertical (HVAC, plumbing, electrical, roofing)
- Single-tier $299/month subscription gating access to full metro list; free tier shows top 5 markets only
- v2integrations/automation
- Automated daily data refresh replacing manual scraping; alert system pings subscribers when a monitored market crosses a shortage threshold
- Slack and email digest integration delivering weekly market movement summaries to paying accounts
- Keyword customization allowing agencies to define trade-specific terms (e.g. 'understaffed', 'can't find techs') that weight the shortage score
- Saved market watchlists so regional contractors can track 3-10 specific metros against their expansion plans
- Introduce $699/month mid-tier with 15 monitored markets and daily refresh vs. weekly for base tier
- v3team/analytics/compliance
- Multi-seat account management with role-based access for staffing agency teams (analyst vs. director views)
- Historical trend charts showing 6-12 month shortage trajectory per metro so customers can time market entry
- Competitor concentration layer overlaying known staffing agency branch locations against shortage hotspots
- Data provenance and source transparency report per market score to satisfy enterprise procurement compliance reviews
- Introduce $999/month enterprise tier with unlimited markets, historical data access, and dedicated onboarding
- v4agents/marketplace/API/enterprise
- API tier ($1,500-$3,000/month) allowing large staffing platforms and ATS vendors to embed shortage intelligence directly into their products
- AI-generated market entry briefs: automated narrative report per metro summarizing shortage severity, dominant trade gaps, and recommended positioning
- Marketplace of signal add-ons (permit pull data, wage index feeds, union density layers) purchasable a la carte by enterprise accounts
- White-label reseller program for regional labor brokers to brand the dashboard and resell to their contractor networks
- Outbound prospecting agent that cross-references shortage metros with contractor contact databases to surface warm leads for staffing agency customers
Pivot paths
Staffing agency outbound lead generation tool
If customers value shortage data primarily to identify which contractors to cold-call, the product becomes a B2B leads database rather than a market intelligence dashboard, shifting monetization toward per-lead or contact export pricing
Conference and trade show booth placement advisory
The anomaly pattern of accounting firms at steel conferences signals a validated edge in conference intelligence; exhibitors and sponsors pay for data-driven booth placement recommendations
Contractor expansion advisory for private equity roll-ups
PE firms acquiring trades businesses need market-entry data at scale across dozens of metros; higher ACV enterprise contract replaces volume of SMB subscriptions
Embedded analytics OEM inside existing ATS or CRM for trades
If standalone dashboard churn is high but API demand is strong, pivoting to an embedded data provider (like a Clearbit for trades labor markets) reduces GTM cost and leverages existing customer relationships of ATS vendors
Real estate and commercial development site selection intelligence
Labor availability is a key input for industrial and commercial real estate decisions; developers and REITs are a higher-WTP adjacent buyer for the same shortage signals
Pivot trigger: If fewer than 10 paying subscribers are retained past month 3 despite active outbound to staffing agencies, or if interview feedback consistently shows customers want contacts and leads rather than market maps, the core dashboard format is wrong and a pivot to lead-gen or OEM model is warranted.
Risks and kill criteria
Risks
- Signal validity risk: Google review velocity and conference booth patterns may not reliably proxy for actual labor shortages, producing false rankings that erode customer trust after first use
- Data access fragility: Google Maps API pricing changes or scraping terms-of-service enforcement could remove the primary data source with no contractual protection for a pre-revenue startup
- Low switching cost and replication risk: A well-funded competitor (ZipRecruiter, Apollo, or an incumbent ATS) could replicate the dashboard in a sprint once the idea is public, given the MVP difficulty rating of 2 out of 5
- Market too thin: The addressable buyer pool of staffing agencies and regional trades contractors actively seeking geographic expansion intelligence may be smaller than assumed, capping growth below $1M ARR without significant category education spend
- Sales cycle friction: Trades businesses and regional staffing agencies are notoriously slow adopters of SaaS tools; $299-$999/month may face lengthy approval cycles or credit card limit constraints at SMB targets
- Data freshness expectation mismatch: Weekly manual refresh in v1 may be perceived as stale by staffing agencies making real-time hiring decisions, causing churn before automation is built
- Regulatory risk around data aggregation: Scraping and republishing business review content may conflict with platform terms of service (Google, Yelp), creating legal exposure if scaled commercially
Kill criteria
- Fewer than 5 paying customers acquired within 90 days of launch despite direct outreach to at least 200 targeted staffing agencies and trades contractors
- Average churn exceeds 50% in month 2, indicating customers find the market rankings inaccurate or not actionable after first use
- Primary data source (Google Maps API or conference exhibitor scraping) becomes legally or technically inaccessible and no alternative signal achieves comparable shortage correlation
- Customer interviews at scale (20+) reveal willingness-to-pay ceiling below $99/month, making the unit economics of B2B SaaS unviable at realistic conversion rates
- A direct competitor with equivalent functionality launches at a lower price point backed by an existing distribution channel (e.g., ZipRecruiter adds a market intelligence tab), making differentiated positioning untenable without significant feature investment
Validation plan
7-day plan
- Day 1:Identify and list 50 staffing agencies and 50 regional trades contractors (HVAC, electrical, plumbing, roofing) with 10-200 employees using LinkedIn Sales Navigator or Apollo free tier; segment by those with visible multi-market expansion activity in their job postings
- Day 2:Manually produce a single-market shortage signal report for one US metro (e.g., Phoenix or Nashville) using Google Maps review scraping, Indeed job posting density, and one conference exhibitor list; format as a 1-page PDF to use as a demo artifact
- Day 3:Send 30 cold outreach messages (LinkedIn DM or email) to staffing agency owners and trades contractor principals offering the single-market report for free in exchange for a 20-minute feedback call; track open and reply rates
- Day 4:Conduct 3-5 discovery calls with respondents; focus on current market expansion process, tools already paid for, and reaction to the sample report; ask all 7-8 validation interview questions and record verbatim answers
- Day 5:Post the founder's discovery story (anonymized, outcome-focused) in 2-3 relevant communities (r/Entrepreneur, NECA or PHCC contractor forums, staffing agency LinkedIn groups) to surface inbound interest and lurking buyers without a hard pitch
- Day 6:Set up a Typeform or Tally landing page describing the platform with a $299/month waitlist option requiring a credit card hold (not a charge); drive traffic from outreach follow-ups and community posts to measure pre-payment intent
- Day 7:Aggregate all call notes, waitlist signups, and community engagement data; score each prospect against job-to-be-done fit, stated WTP, and urgency; make a go/no-go decision on building the v1 dashboard based on whether at least 5 prospects expressed intent to pay at $299/month or above
Interview questions
- Walk me through the last time you decided to expand into a new market or send a recruiter into a new city. How did you decide where to go?
- What signals or data sources do you currently use to gauge labor availability in a market before committing resources?
- How much time does your team spend prospecting or researching markets that turn out to be already saturated or not worth entering?
- If you could see a ranked list of the 20 US metros with the most acute HVAC (or your trade) labor shortages, updated weekly, what decisions would you make differently?
- What would make you distrust a market shortage ranking? What would you need to see to believe the signal is real?
- What tools do you currently pay for to support recruiting or market expansion, and what do you spend monthly across all of them?
- If a platform like this existed today at $299/month for 5 markets or $999/month for unlimited markets, which tier would fit your use case and why?
- Who else in your organization would need to approve a tool like this, and what objections would they raise?
Sources and freshness
- [1]Redditr/EntrepreneurGot laid off 33 days ago. Here's everything I've built since.* Mined Google reviews of trades businesses. ended up finding found specific markets/ cities with genuine labor shortages * Scraped conference booth buyers and noticed unusual patterns where accounting firms at construction expos, e.g. PropTech companies at steel conferences....
Last researched: July 2026
Research confidence
- Problem evidence
- high
- Pricing
- medium
- Revenue estimates
- low
- Go to market
- medium
- Feasibility
- high
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