A shared technology platform — the picks & shovels beneath a new generation of vertical tax-recovery operators. One integration gives any niche startup the OCR, AI, tax-authority connectivity, open banking, and cross-vertical intelligence it would otherwise spend 18 months and a technical team building. We are their outsourced CTO. Recommended brand: Reclaim · reclaim.tax — see §7.
Europe's tax-recovery market is fragmenting into dozens of niches — truck fuel VAT, SME VAT, cross-border per-diems, import duty, corporate-travel VAT — and every one is rebuilding the same expensive infrastructure from scratch. Tax Labs builds it once, at platform scale: cheaper, better, and compounding. We win on economies of scale, a cross-vertical data network effect, and a CTO-as-a-service model — usage + licensing + equity — that makes us the technical co-founder of a whole category.
The opportunity, the platform, the model, and the recommendation — on one page.
02Picks-and-shovels logic, the vertical map, and the tailwinds that make the timing right.
03The recoverable-tax pool, the enabling-tech markets, and a bottom-up TAM / SAM / SOM.
04Point solutions, horizontal tax-tech, build-vs-buy — and the white space they all leave open.
05The 11 layers, the inference gateway, multi-tenancy, and the data-network-effect moat.
06Usage + licensing + equity, unit economics, and the operating leverage of a shared platform.
07The name (Reclaim), the category we own, and the ingredient-brand strategy.
08Which verticals first, how the flywheel spins, and the land-and-expand motion.
09Regulatory constraints, key risks, moats, and the phased build plan.
ReferenceTax, regulation, AI-infrastructure, and platform terms — plain-English.
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