Use cases
Where agent spending shows up, and what Saifuro does in each case.
Procurement and back office automation
An agent renews SaaS subscriptions, tops up vendor accounts, and handles small purchases that used to sit in someone's approval queue.
The mandate restricts vendors and categories, caps single purchases, and routes anything above a threshold to a human. Finance gets one place where agent spend is visible instead of five provider dashboards.
Agents buying compute, data, and APIs
An agent pays per request for inference, datasets, or third party tools. Volume is high and individual amounts are small, which is exactly the pattern that makes monthly invoice review useless.
Velocity rules catch runaway loops before they become a five figure line item. Metering gives per agent and per tool attribution that provider invoices do not.
Agent to agent payments
A platform where agents pay other agents for work. Both sides need to know the counterparty was authorized, and the platform needs a record that survives a dispute.
Each approved transaction carries a signed verdict bound to that request, with the mandate and the policy version attached. The receiving side can verify it without access to Saifuro and without taking the other side's word for it.
Selling to agents
An API or tool provider wants machine buyers instead of human checkout. Metering per request and settlement through licensed providers make that billable.
In all four, the same question sits underneath: was this agent allowed to spend this, and can you prove it later.