One-Liner
A smart plug device and app letting Nigerian households independently measure their electricity consumption and compare against DisCo meter readings to detect overcharging or meter tampering.
AI Thinking Process
Scale Shift: industrial-grade power quality monitoring ($5,000+) → consumer electricity consumption verification via $20 smart plug + free app. Following Seed 2: DisCos use data consumers can't access to make billing decisions.
$20 smart plug measures actual electricity consumption. Consumer compares against DisCo meter reading. App generates formal complaint with measured data. Consumer adversarial positioning confirmed: utility cannot build this tool.
Software-only pivot: use existing prepaid meter USSD/app records + NERC published tariff schedules. Can catch tariff application errors but not meter tampering. Conviction drops to 35% — below 40% minimum.
35% conviction (below 40% minimum). Software-only misses highest-value fraud. Hardware faces distribution/manufacturing barriers in Nigeria. Smart meter rollout may eliminate problem within 2-3 years. Killed.
Kill Reason
Below conviction threshold (35%, minimum 40% for cross-domain filter). Software-only version catches tariff errors but misses meter tampering (the highest-value fraud). Hardware version ($20 smart plug) faces distribution, manufacturing, and regulatory barriers in Nigeria. Smart meter rollout may reduce the problem within 2-3 years.
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