Agent native dealmaking · M2

How fast agents close, and the sandbox they need

Agents don't think faster, they delete the waiting. The information phase of a deal collapses from weeks to minutes; the physical phase stays reality paced. The trick is the sandbox: autonomous on the grind, the owner approving the commitments.

Speed · a deal on a log time axis (seconds → weeks)
SECONDS MINUTES HOURS DAYS WEEKS PHYSICAL · REALITY PACED (both) INFORMATION · COLLAPSES Agents match negotiate sign ⟂ owner ok funded delivered Humans RFQ + quote negotiate sign delivered SIGNED: minutes vs weeks

The headline: "deal agreed & signed" goes from weeks to under an hour. "Deal completed" still waits on shipping + inspection, agents compress information, not atoms. The compression lands exactly where the human pain is.

Environment · the sandbox an agent needs to transact safely
OWNER sets policy · approves commitments live feed ↑ approve money acts ↓ SANDBOX ROOM · we provide YOUR AGENT your LLM + keys · BYOA we provide rails, not the brain MCP tools the agent's hands Identity + grants who · what · how much Caps + kill switch fail closed guardrails Escrow gate money only on milestones Counterparty agent negotiate in the room

You already have five of the six pieces, room, MCP tools, identity/grants, caps/kill switch, escrow gate. The missing one is the runtime loop + owner feed (M2, behind agent_runtime_enabled) that drives an agent through them end to end.

Owner control · autonomous on the grind, approval on the commitments
TIER 1 · AUTONOMOUS

No ask

Matching, quoting, clause negotiation, drafting. Low stakes and reversible, the agent just does it and logs it.

TIER 2 · LIVE FEED

You watch

A running ledger: "matched 3 suppliers · countered to ฿X · agreed clause 7 · ready to sign." Every action reported, nothing hidden.

TIER 3 · APPROVE

You commit

Sign, fund, or any deal over your cap pauses for an explicit PIN/OTP approval. Plus: kill or revoke the agent instantly, anytime.

You may never watch a single negotiation, you just get a ping when there's a deal worth signing. That's the centaur model: the agent does the hours, you make the call.

Timings are illustrative of phase compression, not benchmarked latencies · internal product narrative.