Cloud billing auditor that detects phantom charges
Built for Azure customers managing multiple databases and services who are over-billed for provisioned but unused resources.
“Subject: Urgent: Unauthorized Azure Charges & Non-existent Database — No Support Response I am deeply frustrated and disappointed with Microsoft Azure’s cus…”
The receipts — real demand
“Subject: Urgent: Unauthorized Azure Charges & Non-existent Database — No Support Response I am deeply frustrated and disappointed with Microsoft Azure’s customer service. I have been billed for a database that does not exist. Last year I used one service and one SQL database.”
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Every corroborating quote, the source receipts, and the community echo. One email, no payment.
Why this is a gap
Surfaced from a high-intensity complaint with clear willingness to pay and a specific, reachable audience.
The market
Azure customers managing multi-service estates (databases, compute, storage) are billed for unused provisioned capacity but lack visibility into it. No search volume data; the pain signal shows individual frustration, not yet a recognized market segment.
Competition & the opening
Generic cloud cost tools (CloudHealth, Densify, Kubecost) exist but target infrastructure optimization, not billing disputes (competition 4/10). The gap: no product specifically audits charges *against Azure's own pricing model* to surface legitimate overages that support ignores.
What's hard to build
Azure's billing API is labyrinthine and changes frequently; you must reverse-map charges to actual resource provisioning. Credibly proving overbilling requires understanding Azure's pricing tiers, regional variance, and reserved instance rules deeply. Getting customers to trust your audit over Microsoft's own data is a sales barrier, not a build barrier.
Why now
Cloud bills are opaque and vendor support is unresponsive; audit tools with SLA guarantee fill a critical compliance gap.
How you'd monetize
% of savings recovered or $199-499/mo SaaS