Metric type Safety, direction maximize. Every move an agent makes carries a per-transaction cap, a budget, and a human approval path, so control over money never means control without a limit.
Baselinean agent that spends without a cap is a risk you can't sleep on; one bad call and there's no record of why
MechanismPay puts a per-transaction cap, a budget, and a human-approval guardrail on both Collect and Spend, with an immutable audit trail of every move
TargetSafety maximized — money moves through AI with a limit on every step and a receipt for every dollar
Outcome chart · illustrative gauge, grounded in PAY's own claim · not a live metric