Never Lose Money on a Customer Again.
Usage-based billing exposes your margins to uncapped variable costs, AI inference, cloud compute, third-party API credits, data processing pipelines. Aforo is the only monetization platform with an integrated circuit breaker that detects, alerts, and intervenes the moment a customer becomes unprofitable.
From Deployment to Protection in Minutes.
Connect Cost Sources
Sync AWS, OpenAI, Snowflake, or any cost source in under 2 minutes via native connectors. Aforo polls batch sources (AWS Cost Explorer) and receives webhooks for real-time streams (OpenAI Usage API). No custom ETL. No data engineering.
Define Margin Thresholds
Set global, tier-based, or per-tenant margin thresholds in the Aforo Dashboard. Free tier gets a 5% floor. Pro gets 15%. Enterprise gets 25%. Each segment has its own intervention rules, no code changes required.
Enable the Circuit Breaker
Choose your intervention level: Alert (webhook to Slack/PagerDuty), Dynamic Throttle (model downgrade via entitlement), or Hard Lock (suspend premium features). Levels 1 and 3 require zero code changes. Level 2 uses a response header your app reads.
Three Cost Categories. One Circuit Breaker.
AI inference, cloud infrastructure, third-party APIs, the guard protects margins across every variable cost source in your stack.
A customer runs 500K GPT-4o calls in 48 hours
Their $2,000/mo plan covers 200K calls. COGS spikes to $3,200. Margin drops to -60%. The guard detects the breach, switches inference to GPT-4o-mini via entitlement downgrade, and notifies the account manager with an upsell recommendation.
A multi-region sync job pushes 8TB of cross-AZ egress
A customer's real-time data replication between US-East and EU-West triggers $6,200 in AWS data transfer charges against a $2,000 monthly bandwidth allocation. The guard throttles the sync frequency from real-time to hourly batch, cutting egress by 85% while maintaining data freshness within SLA.
A data enrichment workflow exhausts 50K ZoomInfo credits
A customer's automated lead-scoring pipeline consumes their entire monthly allocation of third-party enrichment API credits (ZoomInfo, Clearbit) in 72 hours. The circuit breaker pauses enrichment requests, switches to cached results for existing contacts, and alerts the customer with a credit top-up option.
Set the Boundary. Pick the Scope.
Three Intervention Levels. Fully Configurable.
Plugs Alerts
Fire a notification to Slack, PagerDuty, or your CRM the instant margin drops below the threshold. Account manager gets a structured JSON payload with customer, product, current margin, and recommended action.
Dynamic Throttling
Return a header in the API response instructing the application to switch to a lower-cost compute model (e.g., GPT-4o to GPT-4o-mini). The customer stays online. The margin recovers. No manual intervention.
Entitlement Lock
Immediately suspend non-essential high-cost features for the customer. Core API access continues. Premium compute, large-model inference, and batch processing are paused until the account is reviewed or upgraded.
Humans Stay in the Loop. The System Acts.
Current Margin: -15%
Action Taken: Tier-2 Throttling initiated
Estimated Savings: $2,140/hr
Watch the Guard Protect Your P&L.
Net Profit Recovered. Bottom Line Protected.
This is the number your CFO sees in the monthly executive review. Revenue leakage prevented, at-risk accounts identified, and strategic upsell opportunities surfaced, all automated, all auditable.
Your margins deserve a circuit breaker.
Stop discovering unprofitable customers at quarter-end. Start enforcing margin floors per request, per customer, in real time.