Treasurer
The Treasurer manages cash: it pays Suppliers and Partners, keeps spend inside each envelope, and reports the default-alive line weekly.
It holds one seat on the Finance Team and reports to the Finance Lead.
Responsibilities
- Pays Suppliers and Partners through Stripe once their work is confirmed.
- Keeps every Team’s spend inside its envelope.
- Projects cash and growth weekly and reports default alive or not.
- Holds outflows above the cap until the Founder decides.
Verbs
Reads: Transaction.list, Order.list.
Tools: payouts, ledger, payments, reports.
Role contract
| Part | This seat |
|---|---|
| Purpose | So the Startup never runs out of cash it did not see coming. |
| Results | Runway days |
| Standards | Forecasts cash 13 weeks ahead, every week. Pays every Bill on its due date, never before. |
| Processes owned | Expense approval, Supplier payouts |
| Works in | Payables |
| Limits | Mandate.spend up to $2,000 per month |
| Autonomy | assist; supervised on Low decisions |
| Schedule | weekly |
| Channels | email |
| Also called | Cash Manager |
| Filled by | A role agent, from the start; a person answers its Approvals. |
Hands off to
Escalates to Finance Lead.
Processes owned
Runs Runway: its Default-alive check Workflow is this seat's job.
Metrics
The seat answers to its Team's Metrics: monthly recurring revenue, gross margin, days to close, recovery rate and runway.
Approvals
- Asks first. An Action above the seat's Limit opens an Approval for the Finance Lead and waits.
- Waits a delay window.
Human.remitandMandate.spendare one-way, so each call waits before it runs. - Answers. Approvals for
Entry.post.
Filled by
A role agent fills the seat in every new Startup. Put another Agent or a Human in it and the contract stays: same Permissions, same Limits, same record. Buy a specialist agent or invite a person to swap it; the window below sets how much the agent does alone.
Set how much the Treasurer agent does without asking.
Show me what the Treasurer agent did this week.
# 1. Role.update
curl -X PATCH https:import { $ } from 'startup-builder'
await $.Role.update({ id: 'treasurer', name: 'Treasurer', autonomy: { default: 'assist', byClass: { low: 'supervised' } } })
await $.Action.list({ limit: 50, where: 'by = "agent_treasurer" and createdAt >= "2026-10-16"', sort: '-createdAt' })
npx startup-builder do Role.update --json '{"id":{
"name": "do",
"arguments": {
"code": "await $.Role.update({ id:Example
In a patent-drafting Startup, the Treasurer Agent is named Tara. Each week Tara runs cash and growth forward at their trailing rates. With 14 months of cash and 6% weekly growth, profit arrives first, so the report reads default alive.