Agent Spend Firewall
Hard caps and real-time circuit breakers for every AI agent tool call and dollar
- Problem
- As AI agents automatically call paid APIs, external tools, and payment endpoints, developers fear runaway spend and unauthorized actions. Existing options cover model tokens or catch overruns after the fact.
- Solution
- A lightweight proxy layer that routes agent tool calls and API requests through a firewall, enforcing budgets, call limits, allowlists, and approval rules in real time, with logs and a spend dashboard.
- Users
- Indie developers and small teams building automated AI agents
- MVP
- Local proxy for tool calls; budget and call-count caps; sensitive-operation allowlist; circuit breaker and alerts; simple log dashboard
- Revenue
- Open-core with a hosted usage-based subscription or per-seat team plan
- Why now
- Agents are beginning to spend money and call external services autonomously, yet budget governance remains enterprise-only; indies can win with a lightweight layer