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AbuseLedger — Signup, Trial & Entitlement Abuse OS for AI-Native Products

Self-serve AI businesses increasingly have a margin problem that hides behind apparently healthy signups.

Score80/100
May 11, 2026
TAM
€1.08B — ~45K AI-native and self-serve SaaS products globally × ~€2K/month equivalent spend on abuse-governance infrastructure.
SAM
€259.2M — ~9K higher-risk AI/self-serve products × ~€2.4K/month equivalent spend.
SOM
€1.73M — 24 customers at ~€6K/month blended subscription and onboarding revenue in years 1-2.
AIStripeSaaSMarketplaceAPIHealth

The Problem

Self-serve AI businesses increasingly have a margin problem that hides behind apparently healthy signups.

The issue is not only stolen cards or chargebacks. It is a broader wave of first-party abuse:

  • people opening repeated accounts,
  • reusing trials,
  • farming promotional credits,
  • spinning up API access for expensive inference,
  • and claiming refunds after value has already been consumed.

Most teams still manage this through disconnected tools:

  • auth and bot checks at signup,
  • payment risk tools at checkout,
  • product logs for usage,
  • support tools for appeals,
  • and finance spreadsheets for loss estimation.

That leaves no strong operating layer between identity, payment method, entitlement access, and compute consumption.

The opportunity is to build the abuse-control plane for self-serve AI and SaaS economics.

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