GOAL: qualified demo requests · AUDIENCE: ops leads, IT, finance · CTA: Book a demo (primary, sales-led product), Start free secondary. The objection is “will it do something without asking?”, so the hero answers it.
CAIRN AGENTS
Agents that ask before they act.
Automate the busywork between your tools. Every step is logged, every external action waits for a person, and every run shows what it cost.
It starts with a trigger.
An email, a form, a schedule or a webhook. You pick what wakes the agent up.
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TRIGGER● RunningNew invoice in finance@ gmail.watch · PDF attached
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TOOLExtract line items doc.parse · Pebble 1.4 · 14 items
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TOOLMatch to purchase order erp.lookup · PO-2291 · Δ $412
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HUMANApprove the payment? Rule: difference > $250 → Finance lead
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RESULTPayment scheduled erp.pay · Oct 3 · audit #8f2c
Scroll to step through the run, or use the buttons. The agent is paused. Scrolling won’t continue it; only your decision will.
Every run leaves a receipt
| Run | Started | Outcome | Decided by | Model · tools | Time | Cost |
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| run_8f2c | Sep 24 · 09:14 | Paid | You | Pebble 1.4 · 4 tools | 6.8 s | $0.021 |
| run_8f1a | Sep 24 · 08:52 | Paid | Auto (< $250 rule) | Pebble 1.4 · 3 tools | 3.1 s | $0.009 |
| run_8e97 | Sep 23 · 17:30 | Rejected | M. Lind, Finance | Ridge 2.0 · 4 tools | 5.4 s | $0.038 |
| run_8e40 | Sep 23 · 15:02 | Needs review | Waiting · 2 h | Pebble 1.4 · 4 tools | — | $0.012 |
| run_8d11 | Sep 23 · 11:47 | Failed safely | — | erp.lookup timeout | 30.0 s | $0.002 |
Illustrative data · exportable to CSV and your SIEM
Guardrails you set
- Human approval
on: pay | send | delete | publishExternal actions always pause for a named person. Approvals expire after 24 h. - Spend cap per run
max_cost: $0.50The run stops before exceeding it and tells you why. - Allowed tools only
tools: [gmail.read, erp.lookup, erp.pay]Agents can’t discover or call anything else. - Data boundaries
sources: finance/*Agents read only the folders you allow, with the owner’s permissions. - Kill switch
admin: pause allOne click pauses every agent in the workspace.
Evaluated before release
Agent task success on AgentBench-Ops (internal), 600 tasks, Aug 2026. Bars show 95% confidence intervals. Illustrative.
Axis 0–100%. Known limit: success drops to 71% on tasks with more than 12 steps.
MICRO-CONVERSION: ROI calculator. Conservative defaults, the assumptions are visible, and the result feeds the demo form.
Assumes 46 working weeks and that people still review every approval (≈ 1 min each). Pilot results vary; we measure yours.
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