Detect affiliate-program fraud on Stripe with pattern-based queries

Detect affiliate-program fraud on Stripe with pattern-based queries targets a $4.5B = 300,000 businesses x $15K ACV. Rationale: 300k mid-market and high-growth SMBs and ecommerce platforms globally run affiliate or partner programs and would pay for dedicated fraud prevention and incident response at roughly $1.25K per month. total addressable market with medium saturation and a year-over-year growth rate of 18-25% annual growth in payments and fraud prevention tooling spend driven by ecommerce and creator economy expansion.

Key trends driving demand: Stripe platform expansion -- more merchants and richer event metadata create a common integration point for detection.; Creator and affiliate economy growth -- more programs means more attack surface and higher frequency of fraud incidents.; Shift to event-driven operations -- webhooks and realtime pipelines let detection act at conversion time, not after reconciliation.; Rising payments complexity -- promo codes, multi-touch attribution, and split payouts increase channels attackers exploit..