Our Story
A few years ago, we were building SaaS products and offered free tiers to reduce friction. Conversion rates looked great. User acquisition climbed steadily. Everything seemed to be working.
Until we looked at the AWS bill.
A significant portion of our infrastructure costs weren't serving real users at all. Sophisticated abusers were exploiting our free tier with plus-addressing, disposable email domains, and high-entropy username patterns. We had optimized for conversion, but we had opened the door to abuse. And we were paying for it.
We looked for solutions but found tools built for different use cases.
Email verification services were designed for marketing teams cleaning bulk lists, not for real-time fraud prevention at signup. They couldn't catch sophisticated abuse patterns before accounts were created.
We needed something that could detect fraud at the signup gate without adding friction for legitimate users. So we built it.
Autheona is a real-time fraud detection API built specifically for the signup moment. We analyze incoming email addresses for over 100 evasion tactics, including plus-addressing variations, disposable domain detection, and high-entropy patterns that standard tools miss.
We return structured, actionable intelligence that your application can act on instantly. Real users get through instantly. Abusers get stopped at the gate. Your infrastructure costs serve actual customers instead of bots and exploiters.
We're a small team of engineers and product builders who have spent years in SaaS and security. We've experienced the pain of fake accounts as founders watching costs balloon, as engineers debugging signup anomalies, and as product managers balancing growth with security.
We're not an enterprise company trying to upsell you into a platform you don't need. We're builders who saw a gap in the market and filled it.
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Autheona is live and protecting signup flows for SaaS platforms, mobile applications, and any team that relies on email as a trust signal. We process requests in milliseconds and continuously refine our detection models based on real-world patterns.
Every new integration teaches us something. Every edge case makes the platform sharper.
If you've ever looked at your infrastructure bill and wondered why you're paying for users who don't exist, we built this for you.