$200K Revenue.
1 Week. 1 Developer.
How a solo developer replaced a $5,000/applicant phone bottleneck with a $0.10 self-service system — and generated $200K+ in year one.
The $5,000 Question
IRS Form 8850, Question 13: “Were you unemployed, looking for more paid work, or felt your skills were underutilized?”
Most people qualify. But 30% answered incorrectly because they didn't understand the legal terminology. Each wrong answer = $5,000 in lost tax credits.
The Insight
Applicants weren't clicking “No” because they weren't eligible — they were clicking “No” because they didn't understand the question.
The bottleneck wasn't the code. It was human comprehension. Audio guidance solved what better UI couldn't.
Before → After
Every metric, transformed
The Pipeline
End-to-end automation from email to federal compliance
Gmail API Watch → Email Processing → AI Extraction → PostGIS Queries → Dashboard → CSV Export
↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓
Auto-fetch Parse PDFs 86 fields EZ/TEZ zones Kanban Federal
emails attachments extracted verified view compliance7 Live Systems
All production. All running. All built by one person.
wotcfy-app-production.vercel.appMain WOTC processing platform. AI-powered PDF extraction (86 fields), Empowerment Zone detection via PostGIS, 4-stage human verification pipeline, Kanban dashboard.
audio-wotc-unemployment-verificatio.vercel.appThe $200K app. Audio-guided self-service form that replaced $5,000/applicant phone calls. Every question read aloud in plain language. Under 60 seconds to complete.
digital-8850.vercel.appComplete digitization of IRS Form 8850. 7 languages (EN, ES, FR, HT, KO, RU, ZH), touch signatures, real-time validation, WCAG 2.1 compliant.
wotcfy-partner-demo.vercel.appPartner network management. Track commissions, manage client accounts, real-time analytics. Multi-tenant with Row-Level Security.
wotcfy-unified.vercel.appUnified document extraction engine. Upload PDFs, AI extracts 86 columns of WOTC data. Gemini for classification, Claude/GPT-4 for field extraction.
wotc-prod.vercel.appProduction deployment with Supabase auth, Gmail API integration, and the full extraction → verification → export pipeline.
wotcfy-app.vercel.appThe first iteration. Where it all started — proof of concept that evolved into a $200K revenue system through rapid iteration.
Technical Stack
Production-grade. Every layer deliberate.
Geographic Intelligence
PostGIS spatial queries for Empowerment Zone eligibility
-- Automated EZ detection: database trigger → geocode → spatial intersection SELECT COUNT(*) > 0 as is_ez FROM empowerment_zones ez WHERE ST_Contains( ez.geometry, ST_SetSRID(ST_MakePoint(longitude, latitude), 4326) ); -- Result: <50ms per query across 10,000+ polygons, 3,143 U.S. counties -- Each EZ match = $3,000 bonus tax credit automatically captured
Human Verification Layer
AI compresses to options. Humans decide.
Source Code
29,000+ lines of production code across 4 repositories
“The industry focused on technology — better forms, faster processing. I focused on comprehension. Audio that explains.”
Result: 50,000× cost reduction. $200K revenue in year one.
Built in Beit Shemesh, Israel. Solo. 1 week.