THE AGENT SPEND READINESS SPRINT

Deploy agents with spending authority your finance team can approve.

A fixed-scope, four-week engagement for one economic workflow. Receipt defines the authority, limits, enforcement points, approval boundaries, and evidence required to move it into a bounded pilot.

ONE WORKFLOW
FOUR WEEKS
FIXED SCOPE
PILOT-READY OUTPUT

Who it is for

A fit when an agent initiative touches money, and finance, security, or risk needs a defensible control design before it can proceed.

The strongest fit: a named agent workflow with an accountable owner and real money at stake. Something is blocking internal approval, and you have a date you want to hit.

Typical settings

  • Companies, startups, nonprofits, and grant administrators
  • Universities and research institutions
  • Hospitals and health systems
  • Governments and public agencies
  • Procurement and finance teams
  • Insurers and regulated enterprises

Start with one economic workflow

Pick a real decision with a clear economic consequence.

  • Purchase AI or data services
  • Provision paid infrastructure
  • Release an invoice or approved contractor payment
  • Issue a refund
  • Start a software subscription or place an approved procurement order
  • Administer a grant or reimbursement

We scope the workflow and its integrations together in week one.

Why Receipt

Your agent can call the tool. Your finance stack can pay. Receipt defines the authority between them.

The missing question isn’t whether the agent has a credential, or whether the money is there. It’s whether this exact agent was authorized to do this exact economic job.

Receipt establishes:

  • who delegated the authority;
  • which exact agent received it;
  • what the agent may purchase, provision, refund, release, or pay;
  • the permitted amount, frequency, counterparty, category, and expiry;
  • when fresh human approval is required;
  • what evidence must remain after the action.

We don’t start from a blank page. Receipt already ships connected-agent identity, SpendCaps, purchase approvals, pause and revocation, cumulative authority accounting, and signed transaction evidence. The sprint puts those to work on one real workflow.

What the Sprint defines

A control design your finance, security, and leadership teams can evaluate.

01

Agent and authority map

Principal, budget owner, exact agent, workflow, and approvers.

02

Threat model

Prompt injection, credential misuse, duplicate spend, policy drift, replay, counterparty substitution, and uncertain outcomes.

03

Mandate and limits

Permitted actions, amount, currency, counterparty, category, frequency, expiry, and exception rules.

04

Enforcement design

Where Receipt or a provider enforces, where approval is required, and where the organization can only observe.

05

Evidence profile

What finance, procurement, security, audit, and compliance must be able to retrieve later.

06

Pilot blueprint

Shadow-mode sequence, acceptance criteria, required integrations, and implementation backlog.

What changes

Move from implicit access to bounded economic authority.

Before

  • Broad credentials
  • Rules buried in prompts
  • Manual approval everywhere
  • Costs discovered after the fact
  • Logs without portable proof

After

  • Exact agent attribution
  • Defined financial authority
  • Automatic action inside limits
  • Approval only at the edge
  • Pause, revocation, and signed evidence afterward
  • One bounded pilot leadership can approve

THE SPRINT ENDS WITH A DECISION

One bounded path to a pilot decision.

You leave with the control architecture, the pilot blueprint, acceptance criteria, and an implementation backlog. Enough to make one clear call:

PILOT · PASS · REVISIT

01

Executive briefing

02

Agent Spend Readiness Sprint

03

Bounded shadow pilot

04

Implementation and licence

Frequently asked questions

Questions qualified teams ask first.

Move one agent from experimentation to bounded economic autonomy.

Choose one workflow. Define its authority, limits, enforcement point, and evidence requirements. Leave with a pilot your finance, security, and leadership teams can evaluate.