Observe mode

Observe mode is how Saifuro earns the authority to block.

The system attaches to real production traffic and evaluates every spend event against your draft policies. It records the verdict it would have returned and blocks nothing.

What you get

After roughly thirty days:

• spend mapped per agent, per tool, and per vendor
• every transaction that would have been challenged, with the rule that fired and the reason
• anomalies: velocity spikes, spend outside the categories anyone expected
• authorization latency, p50 and p99, measured on your own traffic
• a proposed policy set built from what your agents actually did

The policy set is usually the surprise. Teams come in with limits they picked in a meeting and leave with limits they picked from data. Often the useful finding is not an agent overspending, it is a vendor nobody had on the allowed list quietly taking a few thousand dollars a month.

Then enforcement

Enforcement switches on per policy class. Hard limits first, category rules second, approval workflows last, because approvals put a human in the path and that is the change people feel.

No team should hand blocking authority over its own payments to a system it has not watched work on its own traffic.