Payments for AI Agents and Workflow Products
Signets gives teams building AI agents, assistants, and workflow products a separate payment layer. Your product handles the workflow; Signets handles delegated instruments, payment controls, and reconciliation.
AI agent payments infrastructure is the system behind agent checkout, payouts, billing, and collections. It lets AI workflows take payment actions without forcing your team to own the full card, money movement, and reconciliation stack.
Get Sandbox AccessWhy Legacy Fails
Traditional payment APIs assume a person is present at the moment of approval, checkout, and exception handling.
Many teams end up pushing card handling, payment operations, and reconciliation logic into the agent product itself.
A single shared credential across assistants or workflows creates too much blast radius when behavior drifts.
Finance and operations teams struggle to tie a charge back to the exact AI-driven action that caused it.
How Signets Works
A workflow declares payment intent with merchant, expected amount, and purpose.
Signets evaluates policy and decides whether to allow, deny, or escalate the request.
Signets issues a scoped instrument or routes the payment through the right supported flow.
The payment executes with the controls attached to that workflow, assistant, or task.
Webhooks and evidence records flow back to your product, finance, and operations stack.
Code Example
await signets.intents.create({
agentId: "openclaw",
purpose: "Top up inference API credits",
expectedMerchant: "openai.com",
expectedAmount: 120000
});
await signets.cards.create({
agentId: "openclaw",
type: "single_use",
limits: { perAuth: 120000, perDay: 120000 }
});Comparison
| Requirement | Legacy Payment API | Signets |
|---|---|---|
| Delegated payment controls | Ad hoc wrappers | Built in |
| Operational burden on your team | High | Lower and separated |
| Merchant and spend controls | Basic support | Programmable policies |
| Evidence and reconciliation | Fragmented exports | Intent-linked records |
Use Cases
AI assistants with checkout steps
Let assistants complete purchases with scoped controls and clearer audit trails.
Workflow products that trigger payouts
Add payout and collection flows without stitching together a separate money stack.
Agent platforms adding billing actions
Support recurring, vendor-specific, or usage-based payment actions in one control layer.
FAQ
Can I use Signets with browser automation and workflow tools?
Yes. Teams pair Signets with assistants, browser automation, and workflow runtimes while keeping payment controls outside the runtime itself.
Can Signets keep payment operations outside my product stack?
That is the goal. Teams use Signets so delegated instruments, controls, and reconciliation do not have to be built directly into the agent application layer.