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Pohutch

A spreadsheet-federated purchase-order workbench for construction teams that mirrors approved rows into a relational project ledger, ingests authorized mobile receipt messages, proposes document-to-PO matches, and reconciles field and office edits without treating a sync, OCR result, attachment, approval, invoice, payment, or job-cost outcome as the same state.

Genesis score6.90/10
Make Pohutch real.0/500
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The opportunity
1Cross-references
3Inbound connections
0Direct connections
The case

Construction teams often rely on one shared PO sheet because it matches field habits, even while home-office reporting, receipts, commitments, and project rollups demand more structure. Pohutch preserves the visible sheet while assigning stable identities, versions, ownership, and conflict rules to projects, vendors, POs, lines, changes, receipts, invoices, and approvals. A changed cell is not necessarily authorized, sync success is not semantic correctness, a receipt photo is not an invoice or proof of payment, OCR is only a candidate, and routing does not approve cost. Sheet observation, normalized record, conflict, reviewer resolution, PO authorization, vendor acknowledgment, receipt, invoice, match, accounting export, payment, job-cost report, dispute, reversal, and correction remain distinct.

Who pays — and why

A construction owner, controller, project executive, office accountant, or operations lead whose field project managers already manage purchase orders in shared spreadsheets.

What it unlocks
A stable construction purchasing graph linking company, project, cost code, project manager, vendor, PO, line, commitment, change, delivery, receipt, invoice, approval, accounting export, payment, and provenance
A bidirectional sync protocol covering source sheet and tab, row and object identity, field ownership, version, timestamp, actor, offline edit, conflict class, proposed merge, reviewer resolution, retry, idempotency, readback, and correction
A receipt lifecycle separating authorized message, sender identity, attachment, extraction candidate, project and PO match, confidence, human confirmation, duplicate, invoice association, approval, accounting post, payment, dispute, retention, and correction
How Genesis scored it
6.90across seven criteria
tension 6temporal 8blindspot 5buyer 8leverage 8convergence 5why-not 7
8
Temporal window

The source identifies current large-contractor spreadsheet use, though no regulatory or fixed deadline drives adoption.

8
Buyer persona

Construction owners, controllers, project leaders, and office finance teams are concrete.

5
Convergence

One cross-reference and three inbound connections support limited convergence.

Why it scored well

One cross-reference, three inbound connections, four verified interfaces in the source stage, a concrete construction buyer, and no supplied competitor preserving a shared sheet while providing governed PO structure support the direction.

What's holding it back

There are no direct connections, sync semantics and field ownership are hard, messaging and document data are sensitive, construction accounting varies, incumbents can extend, spreadsheet dependence may cap the segment, and pricing and implementation economics are unvalidated.

Signals detected3 sources crossed
SignalSupplied operator signal

SignalSource-run interface verification

SignalSource-run market scan

Direction briefpohutch.md
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