At some point an AI Chief of Staff needs more than access to your calendar and inbox. It needs resources. People, tools, and eventually money 💳 If I delegate a task like “book this”, “buy access to this API”, “pay this contractor”, or “renew this subscription”, having the agent stop at the payment step kills most of the value. So I’m experimenting with the idea of giving agents real payment capabilities: virtual cards, separate limits, approved vendors, spending categories, budgets, and human approval above a certain threshold. The agent becomes a payment proxy for the owner 🤖 It can spend $20 on an API, put down a restaurant deposit, pay for a small service, then automatically write everything into an expense ledger. This is where agents start becoming much more interesting to me. Not just software that recommends what to do -> but software that can actually finish the job 💪 Obviously with limits, logs, controls and kill switches. But once AI can make small economic decisions on your behalf, a lot of workflows suddenly become much shorter ⚡
