Who's already deploying agents that make real commitments?

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Summary

A discussion on how teams handle AI agents making real commitments without human approval, seeking exceptions and insights on liability and legal friction.

A few days ago I posted about how teams handle authority and permissions for AI agents taking real actions. Got a lot of responses, which helped me calibrate. The pattern I kept seeing: most people are still human-in-the-loop for anything that creates a real commitment. Agents draft, suggest, prepare, but a human confirms before money moves, contracts get signed, or orders go out. I want to find the exceptions. If you're in a situation where an agent is already making commitments without a human approving each one, whether in procurement, bookings, financial transactions, B2B negotiations, or anything else where the agent's action creates a real obligation, I'd love to talk through how you're handling it. Specifically interested in: * What happens when something goes wrong or gets disputed. Who's liable, and what evidence do you have of what the agent was authorised to do? * How do you communicate to the other party what the agent is and isn't allowed to commit to? * Have you hit any legal or procurement pushback from counterparties who don't know what they're actually transacting with? Building in this space and trying to understand where the real friction is. Happy to share what I'm seeing on the legal side in return.
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