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Your AI agent has
no spending limit. Until now.

Right now your AI agent has no spending limit. One runaway loop and it charges your card until it's declined. SpendLeash stops it before it starts.

No credit card required.

$300 Lost in one weekend
— Vue School report
$0 Default API
spending cap
Exposure without
a gatekeeper
The problem

AI agents spend freely.
Your card takes the hit.

There's nothing built into AI agents or APIs that prevents unlimited spending. Developers learn this the hard way — often after the fact.

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No default spending cap

AI agents and APIs have zero built-in limits. They will keep making requests and charging your card until the balance hits zero or the card is declined.

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Agents run while you sleep

Agentic workflows operate 24/7. A runaway agent can rack up hundreds of dollars overnight — you won't find out until you check your statement in the morning.

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Cards are fully exposed

Giving an AI agent payment access is like handing it your card with no PIN. One runaway loop or one edge case — and the charges compound fast.

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"Users reported losing between $250 and $300 in a single weekend after leaving an AI agent running with unrestricted API access and no spending cap in place. The agent continued making API calls through Saturday and Sunday with no kill switch to stop it." Vue School — AI Agent Cost Overruns Report · corroborated by Wired coverage of the OpenClaw incident
Autonomous AI Spending: You Are Legally Responsible
How SpendLeash works

A gatekeeper between every agent and every charge

SpendLeash intercepts every transaction before it reaches your payment processor. Nothing gets through without passing the limit check first.

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Your AI Agent
Doing its job
$200/mo cap
wants $250
SpendLeash
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Checks the cap
Request is $50 over the limit
$50 over budget
asks you
You decide
Approve
Deny
Your agent can't spend past the line you draw
You set a monthly dollar cap for each AI agent. While it's under that cap, it runs on its own — no approvals needed. The moment a request would push it over the limit, SpendLeash stops the charge before it happens and sends you a notification. You tap approve to let it through this once, or deny to keep the agent capped. Nothing moves without your decision.
Human-in-the-Loop vs Autonomous AI Agent
Features

Everything you need to give AI agents
payment access — safely

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Hard spending caps

Set a monthly dollar ceiling per agent. Enforced at infrastructure level — no agent-side bypass is possible. Limit hit means locked out.

Real-time blocking

Every transaction checked before it reaches the processor. Overruns blocked in milliseconds — no surprise line items on your card statement.

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Approval workflows

Agents that hit their limit trigger an approval request to you — email, push, or webhook. Approve an exception or raise the cap from your phone.

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Per-agent budgets

Run five agents? Give each its own budget. Agent A gets $20/mo for lookups, Agent B gets $200/mo for heavy builds. One dashboard, full control.

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Live spend tracking

See exactly what each agent has spent in real time, broken down by transaction. No bill-shock. No guessing what the month-end statement will say.

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Encrypted card vault

Your payment details are encrypted at rest. Agents trigger charges through SpendLeash — they never see your card number or billing address.

Real incidents

Real losses. Real developers.
All preventable.

These aren't edge cases — they're what happens when AI agents get unrestricted payment access.

★★★★★

"I woke up Monday morning to find my agent had burned through $280 in API calls over the weekend. There was absolutely nothing stopping it — no limit, no alert, no kill switch in sight."

★★★★★

"The only reason I didn't lose more was my card had a general monthly limit. The agent hit it and stopped. Without that, it would have kept going indefinitely through the night."

★★★★★

"Virtual cards with hard, non-adjustable ceilings are the only proven method for preventing automated systems from running up unexpected charges on a real payment instrument."

★★★★★

"The OpenClaw incident was a warning. Any agentic workflow with payment access needs a gatekeeper layer — this isn't optional anymore. It's table stakes for any serious deployment."

Who Controls Your Money? AI Agent alone vs AI with SpendLeash
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