Blokid
Founded 2023 · 56 employees on LinkedIn · 2 known investors
Vaudit (BlokID) offers an AI-native platform that deploys a fleet of agents to continuously audit company spend across AI providers, ad platforms, and operational vendors. The agents verify charges, detect billing violations, enforce spend guardrails, and recover overcharges for businesses.
Also known as BlokID · BlokID Inc · Vaudit
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Company profile
researched Aug 2026Vaudit, incorporated as BlokID, operates an AI-native platform that deploys a fleet of software agents to continuously audit corporate vendor spend. The agents check individual charges against usage data, contract terms and known billing violations, then surface cases with supporting evidence for customer approval before credits, corrections and recovery actions are executed. The workflow is described in four steps: connecting a vendor platform, agent-driven auditing, customer approval of a case, and crediting back recovered amounts.
The platform is organised into three products: TokenAudit for AI and model-provider billing, AdAudit for advertising spend (including invalid-traffic detection and refund submissions for Meta and Google advertising), and VendorAudit for the broader B2B vendor ecosystem covering invoices, contracts and charges. Recovery is pursued through four mechanisms — pre-invoice corrections, post-invoice refunds and disputes, internal waste optimisation (usage anomalies, provider routing, spend hygiene), and financial guardrails for autonomous AI spend, marketed as LoopBreaker (loop protection) and DedupGuard (duplicate-billing prevention). Integrations are listed across AI providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google AI, Azure OpenAI, AWS Bedrock, Cohere, Replicate, Hugging Face, Together AI, Anyscale), ad platforms (Google Ads, Meta Ads, TikTok Ads, AppLovin, DV360, The Trade Desk) and operational vendors (Salesforce, AWS, Google Cloud, Stripe, UPS, FedEx, DHL).
Earlier company materials describe BlokID as a developer of blockchain-based privacy protection and verification solutions for digital advertising, intended to give advertisers an independent, immutable source of truth through ad verification, attribution audits and bonded privacy insurance, with one-click campaign integrations to Google, Facebook, DV360, Xander and The Trade Desk. Its stated problem set at that time covered ad attribution variance detection, blockchain timestamping to flag third-party access to data, and GA4 event transparency.
Founding story
Founded in 2023 by CEO Mike (Michael) Hahn, described as his sixth venture. Hahn previously founded Vatic AI and, over two decades, built five startups with multiple exits across AI, adtech and revenue operations; he began his career as a math teacher before joining Oracle and later taking a leadership role at Valassis. The company states he repeatedly observed enterprises accepting vendor-reported costs without verification, which motivated building an independent verification layer.
Business model
Subscription platform fees tiered by monthly audited spend combined with a contingency fee on recovered amounts. Published tiers are Starter at $200/month (up to $200K audited monthly spend), Growth at $500/month ($200K–$1M) and Enterprise at $1,000/month ($1M+), each with a 30% success fee on verified recoveries. Product-level packaging lists a free individual tier for TokenAudit with no platform fee and a 30% success fee, plus Team and Enterprise tiers offering 30 days free with a 1% audit fee and 30% success fee; the Enterprise tier is presented on a no-recovery, no-charge basis.
Recurring monthly platform fees based on audited spend volume, an audit fee on team and enterprise tiers, and a 30% success fee charged on verified recoveries.
Traction
Company materials cite $1.2B audited across vendor platforms and more than $50M recovered for clients on the about page, with the site elsewhere citing over $1 billion in spend audited and, in footer messaging, over $2B audited and more than $100M recovered for clients. One executive is described as overseeing $1B+ in audited spend.
Latest developments
The company markets itself as Vaudit with three modules (TokenAudit, AdAudit, VendorAudit), published pricing tiers, and states compliance verification across GDPR, CCPA, SOC 2 Type 2 and ISO 27001:2022 managed through partner Scrut. Named investors on the about page are Mucker Capital and AppWorks, with $8.5M stated as raised across two rounds.
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Market position
Positions itself as an independent verification or accountability layer for vendor spend, contrasting with reconciliation based on vendor-reported numbers, and frames its addressable market as the more than $15 trillion companies spend annually across AI platforms, cloud infrastructure, advertising networks, SaaS, logistics, payment processors and data platforms.
Independent, agent-run verification of charges rather than vendor-reported reconciliation; continuous auditing replacing periodic work by dedicated audit teams; audit-grade evidence attached to disputes; and financial guardrails designed for autonomous AI systems that make spending decisions.
Technology
A fleet of specialised agents that connect to model providers, cloud accounts and vendor platforms and audit charges continuously against usage data, contract terms and known billing violation patterns. Capabilities include token-level auditing, a local SDK, personal spend dashboards, API recovery claims, token spend attribution, cloud billing reconciliation, reserved capacity optimisation, SLA credit recovery, contract pricing validation and multi-team spend attribution, alongside guardrail components LoopBreaker and DedupGuard for autonomous AI spend. Earlier product descriptions cite blockchain timestamping and immutable record-keeping for advertising verification.
Go-to-market
Self-service sign-up with a free initial audit and free individual tier, supported by a book-a-demo motion and a direct sales and account management function for teams and enterprises; a US phone line and support email are published on the site.
Individual builders and engineers using AI APIs and coding tools; AI-first product and engineering teams with shared AI spend; and enterprise CFO and FinOps organisations managing cloud, AI, advertising, SaaS, payments and logistics vendor spend.
Geography
Originally reported as based in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam; current materials list a US contact number with a Delaware area code and describe a largely European executive team, with team members having prior experience at companies including Agoda, Gojek, Yelp and Flipkart.
History
Founded in July 2023 and led by Michael Hahn, the company was initially presented as BlokID, a Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam-based developer of blockchain-powered privacy protection and verification solutions for digital advertising, and raised a $1.25m seed round announced in January 2024 led by Ascend Vietnam Ventures and AppWorks. The company now operates as Vaudit, with three products — TokenAudit, AdAudit and VendorAudit — and states it has raised $8.5M across two rounds, with Mucker Capital and AppWorks named as backers.
Risks & controversies
Traction figures are self-reported and inconsistent across the company's own pages, with audited-spend totals stated variously as $1B+, $1.2B and $2B+ and client recoveries as $50M+ and $100M+. The disclosed $8.5M raised across two rounds is not corroborated by a public announcement of the second round, and the company's positioning has shifted from blockchain-based advertising privacy and verification to AI-agent vendor spend auditing.
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Key figures
latest reportedCompany-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.
Timeline · 1
launches, deals, and filingsBlokID, then a Ho Chi Minh City-based developer of blockchain-based privacy and verification tools for digital advertising, closed a US$1.25m seed round to accelerate product development, user acquisition and market expansion, with a launch outlook of Q2 2024 including Google Analytics plug-ins and Financial Identity features.
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Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Blokid do?
- Vaudit (BlokID) runs AI agents that audit company spend across AI, ad and vendor platforms and recover overcharges.
- Who are Blokid's investors?
- Blokid's investors include AppWorks Ventures.
