Agent control
Agent control puts explicit guardrails in front of agent-initiated payments. Spend limits, scope and provider constraints live in version-controlled policy, and every payment an agent attempts is evaluated against them before it is sent. Permitted payments proceed, and everything else gets a step-up, hold or block.
Agents can initiate payments; something has to bound them
When software agents initiate payments, the constraints usually live inside the agent itself, the same system you are trying to bound. There is no independent checkpoint that enforces spend limits, scope or provider restrictions before execution, and no record of which constraint stopped which attempt.
An independent checkpoint outside the agent
- 01Guardrails live in policy, not in the agentSpend, scope and provider constraints are defined in Policy Manager as explicit, version-controlled rules that live outside the system they constrain.
- 02Every attempt is decided firstThe agent's backend calls POST /v1/decision like any other caller; the attempt is evaluated against the guardrails on the hot path.
- 03Enforcement before money movesWithin bounds, the payment proceeds on your stack. Outside them, the instruction is step-up, hold or block, with reason codes naming the matched rules.
- 04Every attempt on the recordDecisions and reported outcomes are recorded, so agent payment behaviour is reviewable after the fact.
The products behind it
Every solution is the same four-part architecture doing its job. These are the parts doing the heavy lifting here.
Frequently asked questions
Common questions about agent control with Payinference.
Payinference is payment decision infrastructure, a vendor-neutral decision layer that sits above your existing payment stack. Before a payment is sent for processing, your backend calls the Decision API and gets back one executable instruction, one of route, use default route, step-up, hold, retry, failover, or block. Your own PSPs, gateways and rails then execute it.
In shadow mode Payinference returns decisions and records what it would have done while your existing logic keeps executing, so you can evaluate decision quality against real traffic with zero risk. In enforce mode your stack executes the returned instruction.
No. Payinference never moves money, never charges cards and never holds funds. It returns an instruction; your own payment stack executes it. It is not a PSP, gateway, orchestrator or wallet.