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When a paid subscription never activates
Users pay, the charge clears, and the upgrade never applies — stuck on free with no access and no recourse. PainHunt's data shows this provisioning failure across edtech and AI apps.
An SCA exemption engine for checkout
Merchants use 1–2 of the 5 SCA exemptions, so low-risk payments hit needless 3DS friction and fail. PainHunt's data shows the revenue leak — and the automation wedge.
Catching paid AI tiers that quietly get worse
Users upgrade and the AI degrades — memory breaks, image quality drops, features vanish while the bill stays. PainHunt's data shows paid-tier regression is a trust wedge.
Deprecation-aware AI code for cloud platforms
AI confidently writes cloud code against deprecated or wrong APIs, and it fails on test — hours lost. PainHunt's data points to a version-aware codegen guard.
Consent and approval for AI ad creative
Ad platforms auto-apply AI to advertisers' creative without consent or a preview gate, and brand damage surfaces a week later. PainHunt's data shows the brand-safety wedge.
Migrate workflows between automation platforms
When automation platforms triple their prices, teams are trapped — there's no tool to move workflows between Zapier, Make, and n8n. PainHunt's data shows the lock-in pain.
Outage recovery for paid consumer apps
Users pay, the app breaks after an update, support goes silent, no refund. PainHunt's data shows high-intensity churn from service failures — a retention wedge for app makers.
Multi-modal RAG for enterprise data
Text-only RAG misses most enterprise data — images, audio, video, scanned docs. PainHunt's data shows companies want retrieval across all formats, not just text.