For agent-native startups
Your agent can spend. Can you prove what it delivered?
Demos win interest. Production buyers ask for limits, refunds, and a receipt. Paybond Kit ships authorize → verify → release-or-refund → signed receipt — free in sandbox while you keep shipping product.
Free sandbox · Pay as you go or Credits when you go live · Design-partner pilots and Custom needs available
What breaks after the first paying customer
A working agent proves the product can act. Customers also need clean failure paths, evidence they can review, and tenant-safe boundaries from day one.
Incomplete work needs a clean outcome
Release-or-refund rules give the product a deterministic path when delivery fails — instead of founders arbitrating every exception in Slack.
Trust needs a receipt, not a screenshot
Signed completion records show what the agent was allowed to do, what it delivered, and why funds released or refunded.
Multi-tenant cannot wait for Series A
Every intent, capability, and receipt should scope from authenticated tenant credentials before the second customer lands.
Ship one Kit loop before you scale coverage
Start free in sandbox. Keep the same authorize → verify → release-or-refund → receipt lifecycle as paid volume grows.
Authorize before side effects
Bound allowed operations and spend in the product surface you already ship — before the agent executes the paid tool call.
Verify completion evidence
Attach delivery proof to the same intent so release decisions evaluate completed work, not a charge confirmation.
Release or refund
Give customers a deterministic path when delivery succeeds or fails.
One portable signed receipt
Hand engineering, finance, and design partners a reviewable artifact after each governed workflow.
Prove the loop before you scale the sales motion.
Integrate one paid workflow in free sandbox, exercise a refund path, and show engineering and finance the signed receipt.
Honest proof substitutes
- Free sandbox for the first guardrail integration — before you meter production volume.
- Public commercial surface: Sandbox, Pay as you go, Credits, Design-partner pilots, and Custom needs.
- A signed receipt your design partner can review after each governed workflow.
A startup-sized adoption sequence
Pick one customer-visible paid workflow. Make success and failure paths explicit before expanding coverage.
Step 1
Choose one paid operation
Pick a tool call where failed delivery, duplicate spend, or missing evidence creates real customer pain.
Step 2
Authorize before execution
Bind allowed operations and spend to authenticated tenant context before the agent runs the tool.
Step 3
Exercise release and refund
Submit completion evidence, then test both successful release and an incomplete-work refund.
Step 4
Share the receipt
Review the signed lifecycle with engineering, finance, and the design partner before expanding coverage.
Move from pilot to production
Validate one workflow end to end, then widen coverage.
Docs
Kit onboarding
Security model, integration sequence, and production checklist for a tenant-safe rollout.
Read Kit onboardingUse case
Outcome-verified receipts
How signed completion evidence drives release or refund and produces a portable receipt.
Read Outcome-verified receiptsUse case
Automatic refunds
Design the failure path before the first customer depends on the workflow.
Read Automatic refunds