Agent Control Center
Every agent you run, bounded in money.
Register each AI agent your business operates, grant it authority in commercial terms rather than API scopes, propagate that to every PSP and scheme you work with, and see what each agent actually earns and costs.
The cost of doing nothing
Blocking agents is a revenue decision, not a free one
Merchants are currently forced to choose between exposure and lost revenue, because nothing lets them discriminate at agent granularity. The figures below are published market research, not Sharp results.
USD 7.5M
Combined annual exposure
USD 4.5M average direct AI-enabled fraud loss, plus USD 3.0 to 3.1M lost to false positives.
Darwinium Agentic Commerce Fraud Report, n=500, February 202650%
Report rising false declines
Half of enterprise merchants say good transactions are being turned away more often than before.
Adyen Fraud Report 2026, n=1,000 US enterprise merchants+54%
Conversion on AI-referred traffic
Revenue per visit runs 53% higher than non-AI traffic. Turning agents away has a price tag.
Adobe Analytics, May 2026
An agent-mediated order produces six measurable touchpoints where a conventional journey produces more than forty. The prevailing advice is to disable agentic checkout in 5 to 10% of markets for two to three months and compare. That is the current state of the art, and it tells you nothing at agent granularity.
Authority in money, not scopes
What an agent may do, and up to what value
Every other control plane models permission as scopes, roles and tools. None of them has a spend limit. A Sharp mandate grants capabilities, each carrying its own ceilings, its own enforcement mode and its own behaviour when breached.
- purchaseEUR 2,500 per transaction · EUR 40,000 per monthenforce
- negotiateDiscount floor 12% · contract term ceiling 24 monthsenforce
- refundEUR 150 per refund · 20 per weekshadow
- delegateEUR 5,000 ceiling · chain depth 2 · specialists onlyshadow
- transferNot grantedoff
A rule in shadow is evaluated and recorded, never applied, and never pushed downstream.
EUR 26,400 / EUR 40,000
Six individually valid purchases can still break one instruction. The envelope is what catches that.
Agent economics
Net value per agent, and where every number came from
Finance is asked to approve autonomous spend without a basis for the decision. The Control Center reports each agent in money, and labels every line with its provenance, so the number survives a budget conversation.
Net value per agent, and where every number came from
- Attributable revenueComputed from ingested outcomes.measured
- Agent-error lossesRefunds traced to the agent, split by reason.measured
- Dispute lossesChargebacks and their win rate.measured
- Gross marginYour cost basis, named on the line that uses it.derived
- Human review costReview counts measured, cost per review supplied by you.derived
Net value is all-or-nothing. If two of five components are missing, it returns nothing and names what to configure rather than printing a number you would have to defend.
- A partial total is worse than none
- Net value is all-or-nothing. If two of five components are missing, it returns nothing and names what to configure rather than printing a number you would have to defend.
- We will not estimate your cost basis
- Gross margin, review cost and runtime cost cannot be observed from outside your business. They are your inputs, and every figure derived from them says so.
- Loss prevented is excluded
- It is a counterfactual. We label it an estimate and keep it out of net value, because a blocked action has no recorded outcome to compare against.
The control plane
Register, bound, propagate, measure, prove
- Adoption
Connect it and block nothing
Every rule resolves to off, shadow or enforce, and new mandates default to shadow. Sharp evaluates and records but never changes your verdict, and a shadow rule is never propagated downstream, so nobody enforces on our behalf a rule you were told was inactive.
- Intent
Govern the instruction, not just the transaction
A mission carries a budget that many actions, and many agents, draw against. An agent can delegate part of its own budget onward, and a child can never hold more authority than its parent: checked against the money remaining, the capability, the delegating agent’s own grants, and chain depth.
- Propagation
Configure once instead of four times
One mandate renders to a PSP allowance, a scheme payload and an edge policy, each with an explicit list of what that target cannot express. Partial success is normal and reported per target, with the downstream error kept verbatim.
- Measurement
Reported in money, per agent
Volume, approval rate, refunds split by reason, disputes, breach rate and margin given away. A metric with no denominator reads null, never zero, because the difference between no refunds and no data is the entire point.
- Evidence
Why was this allowed six months ago
Each decision stores the thresholds in force at the time, so a chain is assembled from immutable records rather than recomputed against today’s policy. An incomplete chain is reported incomplete, with the gap named.
- Autonomy
One control instead of seventeen fields
Pick a level, from observe through suggest and limited to trusted, and Sharp proposes the mandate underneath it. The level is a ceiling only: it can tighten what the mandate allows and is structurally incapable of widening it, so there is never a second source of truth about what an agent may do.
Why it does not exist yet
No platform expresses agent permission in currency
Three categories of vendor already measure agents. None measures the thing the business needs.
- Identity and IAM
- Okta, Entra Agent ID, Ping, Saviynt. Security posture, entitlements and audit. Nothing about what an agent may spend.
- Observability
- LangSmith, Datadog, Braintrust, Arize. Traces, latency and tokens. That is cost, not revenue.
- Commerce platforms
- Shopify, Stripe. Per-channel performance, inbound only, one platform at a time.
IAM answers which API an agent may call. The Control Center answers which economic decisions it may make, and up to what value.
Agent Control Center
Start in shadow mode. Block nothing.
New mandates default to shadow, so the Control Center evaluates and records without changing a single verdict. You see what it would have done long before it does anything.