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Approve what agents spend

Set the line above which any agent spend waits for you, then answer each request in your startups.studio inbox, Slack or Microsoft Teams.

Set a Limit on what agents spend. Anything above it becomes an Approval that waits for your yes, wherever you answer approvals.

Needs Agent

What you get

  • 1$500 a month spending limit on every agentLimit
  • 1request to you for each spend above it, with the reason, in your startups.studio inbox and in Slack or Microsoft TeamsApproval
  • 1business cardholder, so agents never hold your own cardCard
  • 1single-use card for each approved payment, capped at its amountCard
  • 1short wait before each payment goes out, so you can still stop itAction
  • 1line in your books for every paymentEntry

Your agent does

Limit.create → Approval.approve
You, to your agent

Ask me before any agent spends more than $500 a month.

Nothing over $500 goes out without my yes.

Show me what the agents want to spend, and let me approve it.

# 1. Limit.create
curl -X POST https://api.sb/leaseline.app/limits \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $STARTUP_BUILDER_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"amount":{"amount":500,"currency":"USD"},"period":"month"}'

# 2. Approval.approve
curl -X POST https://api.sb/leaseline.app/approvals/approval_1/approve \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $STARTUP_BUILDER_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"note":"Yes: the annual renewal for the listing site."}'

import { $ } from 'startup-builder'

await $.Limit.create({ amount: { amount: 500, currency: 'USD' }, period: 'month' })
await $.Approval.approve({ approval: 'approval_1', note: 'Yes: the annual renewal for the listing site.' })

npx startup-builder do Limit.create --json '{"amount":{"amount":500,"currency":"USD"},"period":"month"}'
npx startup-builder do Approval.approve --json '{"approval":"approval_1","note":"Yes: the annual renewal for the listing site."}'

{
  "name": "do",
  "arguments": {
    "code": "await $.Limit.create({ amount: { amount: 500, currency: 'USD' }, period: 'month' })\nreturn await $.Approval.approve({ approval: 'approval_1', note: 'Yes: the annual renewal for the listing site.' })"
  }
}

Change it

  • Raise it to $1,000 for ad spend only.
  • Refuse the $740 request and tell the agent why.
  • Stop all agent spending until I say so.

Under the hood

Systems
Spend management, Treasury, Ledger
Nouns
Limit, Approval, Mandate, Card, Entry
Events
Limit.created, Approval.approved
Stripe objects
Issuing Cardholder, Issuing Card

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