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FYI - this could be really useful in logistics operations and production too! (Which is my background, although I suspect the price point is unfortunately much too high for that application).





Thanks for the flag! Absolutely, there are many verticals where we think Fresco can be useful. Would love to hear your thoughts on price point.

I don't have firm thoughts on the price point, but two examples of real-world use cases would be:

* There is a food production company where their QA's do a monthly walkaround. It takes approx. 2-3 hours to type up notes after the walkaround. I'm in the UK and QA's are paid approx. £32k GBP, so 3 hours of their time is more like £50 benefit.

* Lots of logistics companies do daily walks with shift/team leaders. While these aren't usually typed up or anything, it would be great to document them in terms of actions and a tasklist to complete. The alternative to the software would be getting a team leader to write up notes after the walk, and this would take maybe 30 minutes. A team leader might be £28k p.a. so cheaper to get them to do it than buy software at $12k p.a.

The cost of the software would need to be a fraction (e.g. 10%) of what it is at the moment though for these sorts of use-cases to pay off.

Maybe a more generic version of the software not targeted at the construction niche could be something like £49 per month per user? Sounds more like the sort of level I would expect.

But I'm thinking that $1k is like way way way out of the reasonable range of my use case, and this is so different to your current business model I imagine it's irreconcilable.




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