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Confidence in every authorization

Spade enriches every transaction with real-time merchant and location context, so you can verify legitimacy in under 50 milliseconds.

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Enriching billions of transactions for category-defining fintechs & Fortune 500 banks every month
  • Support for vendor-locked cards
  • Power agentic commerce
  • Reduce false declines
  • Drive down fraud losses
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When issuer systems rely on unenriched data, every transaction becomes harder to trust  leading to false declines, preventable fraud, and challenges delivering vendor-locked card experiences.

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The intelligence layer beneath every authorization

Spade enriches transaction data in real time, adding verified merchant and location context so issuers can make confident authorization decisions — faster and with fewer errors.

Reduce False Declines

Reduce false declines

Differentiate real customers from fraud with verified merchant and location data.

Enrich data in real time

Process every transaction in under 50 milliseconds to keep pace with your authorization flow.

Prevent Fraud Proactively

Prevent fraud proactively

Detect anomalies instantly, before bad actors complete a transaction.

Integrate seamlessly

Connect via API for zero-friction deployment across your existing risk systems.

Mercury

When we can correctly identify the type of spend that’s happening at a company, we can set up rules to automatically categorize those transactions. This alone can save hours for our customers each month

Anish Bhayani, Engineering Manager

enrichment accuracy results in verified categorization for Mercury’s 200,000+ customers

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We make Spade's merchant data available across our rules engine and machine learning models so our customers can use it to stop more fraud and reduce disputes. Clearer merchant context means fewer false positives on legitimate transactions and better protection against actual risk.

Soups Ranjan, Co-Founder and CEO

enrichment accuracy enables Sardine’s fraud models to provide better protection against actual risk

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We needed real-time controls that didn't create false declines. Spade's merchant and location data lets us approve legitimate fuel purchases while blocking misuse, and helps save our customers tens of thousands of dollars.

Daniel Simon, Co-founder and CEO

in average annual savings reported by Coast customers with fleets of 10+ vehicles

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Mercury

When we can correctly identify the type of spend that’s happening at a company, we can set up rules to automatically categorize those transactions. This alone can save hours for our customers each month

Anish Bhayani, Engineering Manager

enrichment accuracy results in verified categorization for Mercury’s 200,000+ customers

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We make Spade's merchant data available across our rules engine and machine learning models so our customers can use it to stop more fraud and reduce disputes. Clearer merchant context means fewer false positives on legitimate transactions and better protection against actual risk.

Soups Ranjan, Co-Founder and CEO

enrichment accuracy enables Sardine’s fraud models to provide better protection against actual risk

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We needed real-time controls that didn't create false declines. Spade's merchant and location data lets us approve legitimate fuel purchases while blocking misuse, and helps save our customers tens of thousands of dollars.

Daniel Simon, Co-founder and CEO

in average annual savings reported by Coast customers with fleets of 10+ vehicles

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Mercury

When we can correctly identify the type of spend that’s happening at a company, we can set up rules to automatically categorize those transactions. This alone can save hours for our customers each month

Anish Bhayani, Engineering Manager

enrichment accuracy results in verified categorization for Mercury’s 200,000+ customers

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We make Spade's merchant data available across our rules engine and machine learning models so our customers can use it to stop more fraud and reduce disputes. Clearer merchant context means fewer false positives on legitimate transactions and better protection against actual risk.

Soups Ranjan, Co-Founder and CEO

enrichment accuracy enables Sardine’s fraud models to provide better protection against actual risk

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Coast White

We needed real-time controls that didn't create false declines. Spade's merchant and location data lets us approve legitimate fuel purchases while blocking misuse, and helps save our customers tens of thousands of dollars.

Daniel Simon, Co-founder and CEO

in average annual savings reported by Coast customers with fleets of 10+ vehicles

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Two paths. One intelligence platform.

Whether youre enriching data directly or deploying Spades Agent to automate real-time decisioning, every authorization benefits from verified merchant intelligence.

Real-time enrichment. Full control.

Capture live transaction data

Your authorization stream connects directly to Spade’s API in real time.

Add structure and context

Merchant descriptors are standardized and matched with verified metadata.

Return enriched insights

Data is returned instantly to your risk or decisioning systems.

Manage logic internally

Your team applies fraud rules, thresholds, or models using the enriched feed.

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Agentic commerce starts with structured intelligence

Before AI agents can act, they need trusted data. Spade provides the structured merchant and location intelligence required for autonomous risk decisioning — powering the next generation of adaptive, agentic commerce.

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Power new products, rewards, and AI capabilities with a data foundation that scales.

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Clarity at enterprise scale

Unify authorization, analytics, and AI on one trusted platform.

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