Volume 1: The Case Files
Grift, Inc.
How AI got weaponised by the worst people in business
The next time you accept cookies, join a loyalty programme, or log in through someone else's auth, ask yourself whose convenience the convenience is for. For a subset of the companies you use every day, it is not yours.
This is the case file. A living database of who is doing it, how, and the court filings and regulator reports that prove it.
Sourced
Every case anchored to court filings, regulator reports, sworn testimony, or major investigative journalism. No hunches.
Living
Entries update as litigation moves and regulators act. Volume 2 is being researched here in the open.
Fair
Every company named gets a steelman and a right of reply.
The cases
All case filesAlgorithmic price testing
Amazon
The FTC alleges Amazon ran a secret pricing algorithm, internally codenamed Project Nessie, that raised prices to test whether competitors would follow, then held them high when they did, allegedly extracting more than a billion dollars from customers.
Active litigation (FTC v. Amazon)
AI claim denial
UnitedHealthcare
A class action alleges UnitedHealthcare used an AI tool, nH Predict, as a hard cap on post-acute care for Medicare Advantage patients, with roughly 90% of appealed denials overturned, cutting vulnerable seniors off from care.
Active litigation (Estate of Lokken v. UnitedHealth)
AI claim denial
Cigna
A federal class action alleges Cigna used an algorithm called PXDX to batch-deny around 300,000 claims in two months at an average of 1.2 seconds per claim, with physicians signing denials without reviewing the records.
Active litigation (Kisting-Leung v. Cigna)
Algorithmic price coordination
RealPage
The DOJ alleges RealPage's YieldStar revenue-management software let competing landlords share sensitive data and coordinate rent increases across 16-plus US metro markets, functioning as algorithmic price-fixing.
DOJ settlement framework (Nov 2025); actions ongoing
The monthly synthesis
One email a month: every new case, every regulatory development, and the executives who quietly fixed it.
The case files report on matters of public record. Claims in live proceedings are allegations unless resolved by a court. The database is licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.