The Gate Between AI Agents and Your Money.
When an AI agent requests a vendor payment, every check — identity, authority, invoice, vendor, amount limit, execution state — must pass before the payment rail is called. If any gate fails, the payment does not execute.
The Problem
AI agents are starting to move money autonomously.
Most systems verify after the payment executes — not before.
AI agents are being given the ability to pay invoices, process vendor payments, and initiate transfers. But the authorization gap is real: the agent has credentials, not authority. It can call a payment API, but no system verifies whether the payment should execute — whether the invoice is approved, the vendor is vetted, the amount is within limits, and the agent has delegated authority for that specific action. Today, you find out after the money moves.
The Cost
What Happens Without a Gate
Public failures of authority, evidence, or control at the point of execution. Each is illustrative of the failure classes ExecutionProof is designed to govern — not a claim that ExecutionProof would have prevented any specific event.
$625M
Ronin Bridge Exploit
2022 · U.S. Treasury (OFAC)
$8.7B
FTX Collapse
2022 · DOJ (SDNY)
$440M
Knight Capital
2012 · SEC Order
$4.7B
Celsius Insolvency
2022 · DOJ (SDNY)
$700M
Equifax Breach
2017 · FTC Settlement
$100M+
SolarWinds Attack
2020 · SEC Complaint
Figures reflect publicly reported losses, settlements, or recoveries; each links to a primary public source. Amounts are attributed to the linked source and are not adjusted.
The Gap
IAM, ERP approvals, AP automation, spend management, and fraud detection are all post-decision or partially preventive.
IAM / SSO
Gives the agent credentials — not authority for a specific payment
ERP Approval Workflows
Routes requests for human approval — does not verify at execution
AP Automation
Processes invoices — does not enforce limits at the payment rail
Spend Management
Tracks spend — detects overages after the payment moves
Fraud Detection / ML
Flags anomalies after execution — not before
Audit / Logging
Records what happened — not whether it should have
None of these systems answer the question an AI-agent payment demands: At the moment this payment request hits the payment rail, is the agent authorized, the invoice approved, the vendor vetted, and the amount within limits? They operate around the payment — before, after, alongside. But not at it.
The Innovation
ExecutionProof inserts verification directly into execution.
Instead of monitoring, logging, or auditing around the point of action, ExecutionProof places a verification pipeline at the point of action. Authority, policy, state, and risk are confirmed before execution occurs. Cryptographic proof is generated. The execution either proceeds or stops.
The ExecutionProof Pipeline
The Law
If it cannot be verified,
it cannot execute.
This is not a suggestion. It is the operating principle of the RF-100 Standard. Every action must pass through verification before it can execute. Every verified execution generates cryptographic proof. Every proof becomes a permanent, auditable record.
What This Means for Your Organization
For CISOs & Security Leaders
Every execution is verified before it occurs. No more finding out after the breach.
For Regulators & Auditors
Cryptographic proof exists for every action. Compliance is built into execution, not bolted on afterward.
For CTOs & Engineers
One standard pipeline for authority, policy, state, and risk verification. Works across every system.
For Boards & Executives
Governance is not a report — it is a structural control. If it was not verified, it did not execute.
Leadership
The Team
Derek Hone
CEO, Remnant Fieldworks Inc. · Westerville, OH
Designed the verification-before-execution architecture from first principles. Inventor on 56 filed U.S. patent applications directed to proof-first authorization and pre-execution governance. Author of Proof Before Power — #1 in Financial Auditing on Amazon.
Adith Kadam Ramesh
Systems Engineer, Remnant Fieldworks Inc.
Responsible for technical validation, systems integration, and infrastructure engineering across the ExecutionProof platform. Ensures the verification pipeline and execution control architecture perform under real-world conditions.