The permissions & evidence layer for AI agents moving money

Pilot Pilot access by application

Give your AI agents
authority you can revoke.

Axiom is the simplest way to delegate, scope, and audit what your AI agents are allowed to do, especially when money or sensitive systems are involved.

demo.axiomgo.ai · payment check
Payment request · checked before execution

shopping-agent wants to pay merchant.amazon.co.uk

Reviewed against the policy granted to this agent.

Amount£248.00
Suppliermerchant.amazon.co.uk
Agent permissionpayments:create
Per-request limit£2,000.00
Request IDreq_3f29a1c4
AllowedWithin policy · before provider handoff
Agent identity verified
Permission allows payments
Supplier on allow-list
Amount under per-request limit
Idempotency key not seen before

Accepted for execution does not mean settled or final. Every request keeps an evidence trail.

The problem

Agents can now request payments.
Nothing sits between intent and execution.

Companies need permission, control, and evidence before money moves. Without limits, approval boundaries, and a record of what happened, an agent payment request becomes a governance problem. The goal is not blind autonomy. It is controlled execution.

No boundary on what an agent may pay

An agent that can move money needs limits on supplier, amount, and purpose — set by a human, not by the agent itself.

No check before the money moves

Approval has to happen before a request reaches a payment provider or bank, not as a report after the fact.

No record to explain what happened

When finance, an operator, or a reviewer asks why a request was allowed or blocked, there should be a clear answer.

How Axiom works

Axiom sits between agent intent
and money movement.

An agent prepares a payment request. Axiom checks it against the policy and permissions you granted, decides allowed or blocked before execution, and records what happened.

i.

Request

Your agent prepares a payment request with the amount, supplier, and request details allowed by the authority you delegated.

payment request
ii.

Check

Axiom verifies identity, permission, supplier, amount controls, and duplicate protection before any payment provider handoff.

identity · permission · controls
iii.

Allow or block

If the request is within policy it is allowed and handed to the provider. If it breaks policy it is blocked, with a reason.

allowed · blocked
iv.

Evidence

Every request gets a request_id and an evidence trail that explains every agent action and what happened, afterwards.

request_id · evidence
What you can do today

Delegate authority, not blind trust.

Give agents limited payment permissions

Grant an agent the authority to request payments — and nothing more. The boundary is set by a human and can be revoked instantly.

Set supplier and amount controls

Decide which suppliers an agent may pay and the limits per request. Requests outside the boundary do not proceed.

Block requests that break policy

Axiom checks each request before provider or bank handoff. Anything outside the granted policy is blocked, with a reason.

See allowed, blocked, or escalated

Operators get one place to follow which requests were allowed, which were blocked, and which need a human decision.

Prove what happened with evidence

Every request keeps a trace you can follow by request_id useful for internal audit and compliance review.

Keep humans in control

Authority is delegated, scoped, and revocable. Finance teams keep the off-switch. The agent never gets blind trust.

Where it fits

Built for teams putting agents
near real payment operations.

Axiom fits between agent intent and money movement, so finance teams can control what agents are allowed to do before execution.

01

Supplier payments

Let an agent prepare supplier payment requests within limits you set, and check each one before it reaches the payment provider or bank.

02

Treasury and compliance oversight

Give finance and compliance teams controlled authority, transparent controls, and evidence for every agent-initiated payment decision.

03

Agent-enabled spend, AP, and procurement workflows

Insert Axiom between agent intent and payment execution, so procurement and accounts payable teams can delegate authority, enforce controls, and keep evidence inside the workflow.

04

Banking, fintech, and compliance oversight

Add transparency and explainability to agent-initiated payment activity, with clear evidence for compliance, risk, and operations teams before money or sensitive systems are touched.

05

Fintech compliance controls

Give agent-driven payment workflows a permission and evidence layer, so compliance teams can review what was requested, why it was allowed, and who delegated the authority.

Exploring a use case?

Tell us how your agents request payments. Pilots are scoped to a real workflow.

Request a pilot →

There is no layer between what the agent decides
and what actually moves money.

So we built one.

A note from the founder's notebook · The day Axiom started · 2026
Evidence

Every request can be explained afterwards.

Every request gets a trace: the decision, the control or policy reason where available, and provider dispatch visibility. Evidence is part of the product, not an afterthought.

  • Follow a request from action to decision by request_id
  • See whether it was allowed or blocked, and why
  • Useful when a finance team or reviewer needs to understand what happened
  • Accepted does not mean settled — the boundary stays visible
demo.axiomgo.ai · evidence
request_id · req_3f29a1c4
allowed
Request received
shopping-agent · payments:create · £248.00 → merchant.amazon.co.uk
10:24:01
Checked against policy
Identity verified · permission allows payments · supplier on allow-list · amount under £2,000 limit
10:24:01
Decision: allowed
Within policy. Reason recorded and attached to this request.
10:24:01
Dispatched to provider
Handed to Stripe for execution · accepted for processing
10:24:02
Accepted for execution does not mean the payment is settled, reconciled, or final. Evidence reflects what Axiom checked and decided.
For developers

A check on every
payment request.

Send a payment request with an idempotency key. Get back an accepted response or an error, and a request_id you can use to look up evidence.

Send
payment request
Agent, amount_minor, merchant, idempotency key
Receive
accepted/error
Accepted or denied before execution
Trace
request_id
On every request
Explain
evidence
Look up what happened
create-payment-request.sh
# Auth/session transport is issued during pilot onboarding curl -X POST "$AXIOM_API_BASE/v1/payments" \ -H "Idempotency-Key: req_3f29a1c4" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{ "agent_id": "a6064a27-3705-4f25-a5f4-2c6a5a58173d", "amount_minor": 24800, "currency": "GBP", "merchant_id": "merchant.amazon.co.uk", "merchant_ref": "ord_123" }' # → Axiom checks policy, then responds { "status": "accepted", "payment_id": "pay_sbx_4f8fa65b8d7f0e5ec3ca0f07", "request_id": "req_3f29a1c4", } # Policy denials and verification failures return # an error response with its own request_id.
Security & trust

Conservative by design.

Axiom is built around limited authority, least privilege, and request-level evidence. Controls help teams understand and limit what agents can do before money moves.

Limited permissions

Agents get only the authority you grant. Scope is explicit, narrow, and revocable.

No secrets in evidence

Evidence is built to explain decisions without exposing secrets, keys, or sensitive credentials.

Controlled pilots

Axiom can also be deployed through scoped pilots tied to a real workflow, so teams can introduce agent permissions with the right controls, evidence, and operational review from day one.

Evidence-first posture

Every request is checked before execution and recorded. The off-switch stays with the human.

We do not claim certifications, accreditations, or regulatory approvals we do not hold. Read our security posture →

Money moves only when
the rules allow it.

Axiom gives finance teams a layer between agent intent and money movement, and keeps humans in control.