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Enabling agentic payments for the AI economy
Explore how Conto's guardrails and controls enable new use cases and improve efficiency
Automated Payment Operations
Payment workflows agents can run end to end, with Conto enforcing payouts, purchasing, and credits right where the money moves.
Payout automation
Instant payouts with policy checks before settlement
Built for agents that need to pay people or move funds as soon as a job, user instruction, or treasury workflow completes. Conto keeps settlement fast by enforcing controls in the payment path instead of a manual back-office step.
Relevant industries
- Best for
- Delivery, payroll, fintech transfers
- Controls
- Caps, velocity, approval
- Outcome
- Fast settlement with hard stops
Autonomous purchasing
Autonomous procurement that still respects budget and vendor policy
Let agents buy inventory, services, software, or repairs on demand without giving up purchasing control. The agent can source and transact on its own, but only inside the vendors, categories, and budgets you approve.
Relevant industries
- Best for
- Supply chain, commerce, maintenance
- Controls
- Supplier policy, PO caps, approvals
- Outcome
- Repeatable buying without spend drift
Credits and refunds
Refunds, credits, and make-goods that stay inside policy
Customer-facing agents can issue credits, refunds, and reimbursements quickly while Conto keeps routine corrections fast and sends higher-value exceptions into a controlled review path.
Relevant industries
- Best for
- Hospitality, billing, support recovery
- Controls
- Category rules, budgets, approvals
- Outcome
- Faster resolution without leakage
Runtime Governance
Controls and safeguards for cases where autonomous payments need approvals, trusted counterparties, or hard spend limits before they clear.
Escalation paths
Approval routing for high-value or ambiguous payment decisions
Some payment decisions need a pause, not a hard stop. Agents can keep moving on the standard path while the payment layer pauses only the transactions that need a human call.
Relevant industries
- Best for
- Large orders, treasury moves, credits
- Controls
- Thresholds, escalation, audit trail
- Outcome
- Humans review exceptions only
Vendor trust controls
Vendor and counterparty controls for autonomous payments
Trusted vendors should clear quickly, and new counterparties should not slip through unnoticed. Conto keeps vendor, merchant, and service-provider policy attached to the payment path so recipient drift is caught immediately.
Relevant industries
- Best for
- Procurement, vendors, merchant spend
- Controls
- Allowlists, trust, merchant rules
- Outcome
- Faster trusted payments, less drift
x402 spend limits
x402 and service-spend budgets for machine-speed buying
When agents are paying for APIs, inference, or compute by the call, Conto applies per-request caps and session budgets so service spend stays bounded even when the agent is making many decisions per minute.
Relevant industries
- Best for
- Inference, APIs, service spend
- Controls
- Per-call caps, session budgets, velocity
- Outcome
- Machine-speed buying with hard limits