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startup idea
Recourse
An AI agent that claws back your money and identity after fraud.
Consumers hit by scams, identity theft, or bad data pay a subscription for an agent that acts as their authorized representative: it files chargebacks, FCRA credit disputes, identity theft affidavits, data-broker deletions, and GDPR erasure requests across jurisdictions, then tracks each case to resolution.
- AI agent as a service
- Consumer
- $10-100B market
- Platform others build on
- Global from day one
3/5
venture judge
4
similar startups, last 2 years (16 all-time)
97%
of 3 nearest real companies still alive
sector
73 public grants in this sector, none matching the idea's terms
Scorecard
One score that balances how trendy the idea is, the demand for it and its potential for 100x, with competition measured relative to every other idea in the catalog. Recent startup trends first, government priorities second.
74
Idea Score, 0-100 · raw 45.2 x 1.64
Active
competition: more crowded than 47% of ideas · headwind x0.76
+0.0
government priorities, secondary (0 matching grants)
Trend
68
Is the wave forming now? 2025-26 entrants vs 2023-24, rounds since 2025, the sector's live-batch direction, the 2026 trend analyst.
- Entrants 2025-26 vs 2023-24 (similar companies)98
- Rounds announced 2025+ in the sector25
- Sector direction (live batch)100
- 2026 trend analyst50
Demand
62
Does anyone want it? YC's current RFS, companies already paid for something similar, the operator judge, founders' yes-rate in decks, readers who would run the test.
- YC asks for it (current RFS: idea / sector)60
- Someone already pays (similar companies, recent / all-time)100
- Operator judge: real pain25
100x potential
49
Can it return a fund? The venture judge (double weight), market-size and moat axes, neighbours still alive, the technologist judge.
- Venture judge50
- Market size axis67
- Moat axis20
- Neighbours still alive81
- Technologist judge25
Score = 100 x cbrt(Trend x Demand x 100x) x (1 - 0.5 x crowding) + government bonus (max 5), calibrated so the 95th-percentile idea scores 90 (order never changes). A geometric mean: a weak pillar cannot be papered over. Percentiles are among the 272 ideas in the catalog; the terms matched were claws, back, money, identity, fraud, consumers, hit, scams.
The idea in full
- What
- Consumers hit by scams, identity theft, or bad data pay a subscription for an agent that acts as their authorized representative: it files chargebacks, FCRA credit disputes, identity theft affidavits, data-broker deletions, and GDPR erasure requests across jurisdictions, then tracks each case to resolution. The same authorization-and-filing rails are exposed as no-code building blocks, so banks, wallets, and consumer apps embed the recovery agent instead of building their own redress workflows. That second side is what makes it a platform rather than an app.
- Why now
- The brief shows the attack side industrializing - Raid AI ships real-time deepfake detection and Charm Security (Plug and Play 2026) sells scam and social-engineering defense to institutions - while YC's Fall 2026 RFS calls for 'Proving You're Human'; with 74 new security companies in 2024 and 75 in 2025 in this cluster, almost all defense sells to businesses, and the defrauded consumer still recovers money by hand.
- Wedge: first customer and entry point
- Start with US credit-card chargeback and FCRA dispute filing for identity theft victims - one regulated workflow with well-defined statutory rails - acquired self-serve through fraud-victim communities, before adding jurisdictions.
- Path to 100x
- Consumer identity protection and fraud recovery is a $10-100B category (LifeLock-scale subscriptions plus contingency fees on recovered funds), and the winner is whoever owns the standard authorization rail that institutions accept filings through. Once banks embed Recourse's rails, every recovery improves the playbook and every integration makes it more the default - defensibility that has to be earned, since today the moat is not yet built.
- Ceiling
- If recovery outcomes converge across providers, this is a churny $10-a-month consumer subscription with no reason to consolidate.
- Closest real companies, as the generator saw them
- Charm Security sells scam defense to financial institutions, not agency to the victim; Didit builds identity and fraud infrastructure for businesses. Recourse is the consumer's own agent, and later the rail those businesses embed.
- Main risk
- Bureaus, banks, and regulators throttle or block automated third-party representation, forcing the agent back to human-speed channels.
Five judges
Each judge scores every idea in the catalog with a named rubric; the venture judge decides whether a card is shown at all (4-5 is venture-grade).
Venture investor
3/5
Real $10-100B category, but no moat today and the stated ceiling is a churny $10-a-month subscription with no consolidation logic.
Bootstrapper
3/5
Self serve FCRA and chargeback filing is cheap to ship, but a $10 monthly consumer subscription after one recovered case is textbook churn.
Operator
2/5
Fraud recovery is episodic rather than frequent, and a $10-a-month consumer subscription depends on bureaus and banks accepting automated representation.
Technologist
2/5
Integrations and no-code filing rails over statutory forms, with the card itself stating no moat exists and bureaus able to throttle automated agents.
Risk
2/5
Third-party representation runs on rails bureaus and banks control, and they can throttle automated filings at will.
trends
3/5
Aligns with the F26 Proving You're Human RFS and the 2025-26 scam industrialization, but manual consumer redress was just as broken in 2023.
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The generator's reference companies
Real companies the model named as closest when it wrote the card, with their fate. A check mark is a company the radar could verify in its directory.
Public money in this direction
US federal grants, SBIR/STTR awards and open opportunities from the radar's public-money feed, matched to the idea's terms; the sector totals give the context.
0
grants and programs matching the idea
73
startup-relevant grants in Security and compliance
$18M
awarded in the sector, tracked
23
opportunities open now in the sector
Market signal
What the radar sees in Security and compliance: new companies by cohort year, the forming YC batch, and outcomes since the February snapshot.
Security and compliance · 42 → 45 → 83 → 75 → 32 new companies 2022 → 2026 · 94% aliveYC S26: 7 in this cluster, 3% of the batch (was 3% in X26) (F26 is still forming: 21 listed)Since February, of 171 YC companies here: 0 acquired, 2 shut down, 24 rewrote their pitch
Design attributes
The card is one cell of a designed set: every axis below was chosen before the text was written, and the text had to realize it.
- Buyer
- Consumer
- Business model
- AI agent as a service
- Path to 100x
- Platform others build on
- Market size
- $10-100B market
- Capital intensity
- Capital-light (software margins)
- Speed to revenue
- Revenue in 1-3 years
- Technical depth
- Integrations, no-code
- Go-to-market
- Self-serve
- Moat
- No moat yet
- Geography
- Global from day one
- Regulation
- Heavily regulated
- Vibe
- Boring business
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