Finance agent

Live in 6 days on average

Spend Approver

Pre-checks every spend request against policy and budget, then routes it to the right approver with context.

9 min

average approval cycle, down from 4 hours

SAMPLE RUN · REPLAYABLE

TRACED

Trigger

Spend request · design tool · $2,400/yr

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Research

Existing licences · 3 unused seats found

0.9s

Decision

Recommend reassigning existing seats

0.4s

Action

Approval card sent to budget owner

0.5s

Action

Decision recorded · request closed

0.4s

Result

$2,400 saved · requester notified

0.2s

Every step, tool call and decision is recorded

OVERVIEW

What it does

Pre-checks every spend request against policy and budget, then routes it to the right approver with context.

Teams typically go live in 6 days. They start in shadow mode, where Spend Approver proposes every action for review, then switch on autonomy for the decisions it handles reliably.

How it decides

The agent works from your written policies and live data from your tools. When a case falls outside policy, or its confidence drops below your threshold, it escalates to a person with a summary of the research so far.

Guardrails

  • Scoped tool permissions enforced by the runtime

  • Approval gates for high-value or irreversible actions

  • A full run trace for every decision

  • An eval suite built from your own historical cases

Capabilities

Checks requests against policy and budget

Gathers quotes and vendor history

Routes to approvers with a recommendation

Records decisions for audit

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Use cases

Where teams put it to work.

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Use cases

Where teams put it to work.

Software purchases

Checks for existing licences before approving new ones.

Travel requests

Applies per-diem and booking policies automatically.

Budget control

Warns owners before a cost centre overruns.

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In the product

Configured, tested and observed in one workspace.

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In the product

Configured, tested and observed in one workspace.

Spend Approver configuration in the Cairn app
Spend Approver dashboard in the Cairn app

Deploy this agent

Run it in shadow mode this week.

Connect your tools, point it at real work and read every trace before you switch on autonomy. No credit card required.

Free 14-day trial · No credit card · SOC 2 Type II

Deploy this agent

Run it in shadow mode this week.

Connect your tools, point it at real work and read every trace before you switch on autonomy. No credit card required.

Free 14-day trial · No credit card · SOC 2 Type II

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