[jtvjan]

Sort of. He does encourage this use-case in the final paragraph.

> Applying "Pwned or Bot" to your own risk assessment is dead simple with the HIBP API and hopefully, this approach will help more people do precisely what HIBP is there for in the first place: to help "do good things after bad things happen".

[taco_emoji]

Yeah it seems clear to me that he's recommending it to be one portion of a risk assessment for a given email address.