AI vendor lock-in and fear of the coming price hike
Pain point
Teams becoming dependent on underpriced AI products, expecting rug-pull pricing and future ad injection; no trust in vendor promises.
Signal
3.1K post, with very high comment scores: *"They can publicly commit to sell ads from any point in time forward"* (3.4K), *"They are practically giving it away. Then they will raise the price. Companies have [become dependent]"* (570). Investor/operator audience — high willingness to pay.
Opportunity
AI cost-exposure and portability layer: model-agnostic gateway + dashboard showing "if provider X raises price 3×, your burn goes to $Y," automatic evaluation of equivalent open-weight/cheaper models per workload, and one-click migration. Sell to CFO/platform teams. Feasibility: medium — the routing layer is commoditized, the differentiator is the financial-risk reporting and eval harness, which is quick to add.
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