Why accountable agents.
Most AI tools ask for trust up front. We think trust is the output, not the input.
Plenty of owners have run the experiment already. A pilot, a demo, a tool nobody checks. The work was sometimes good. The accounting never was. No one could say what the system did, what it cost, or who approved it.
So we built the accounting first. On Third Vector, an agent is accountable the way a good hire is accountable: a defined job, a schedule, a budget with a hard cap, and a record of everything it did. You approve its work until you decide you no longer need to.
The name
When a business needs more done, it has had two options: hire more people, or buy more software. Those are the first two vectors. The third is delegation to accountable agents. Work handed off, with the receipts to prove it was done right. That is the vector we are building.
Three rules we build by.
The user is the boss
Agents propose; you decide. Every level of autonomy is one you granted, and one you can revoke.
Specific over superlative
We say what an agent does, on what schedule, for how many dollars. If a claim cannot be checked, we do not make it.
The record is the product
Logged actions, enforced budgets, explicit approvals. Receipts are not a feature we added. They are the reason this works.
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