Investors
The control plane every FinOps team will need when agents move money.
ValarIQ sits between autonomous systems and execution. Identity, authority, policy and evidence before sensitive actions reach the rails. We do not move money. We decide whether the agent may ask the rail to.
Put policy in the loop. Not people in every loop.
The opportunity
A new layer of infrastructure, forced by autonomy in finance.
Enterprises are shipping agents into CFO and FinOps workflows faster than control environments can adapt. The missing product is not another model, dashboard or GRC pack. It is an independent control plane on the agent-to-rail hop.
Agents are becoming financial actors
Refunds, supplier payments, procurement, treasury moves and account changes are leaving chat windows and hitting rails. Intent is no longer the risk. Execution is.
IAM was built for people, not agents
SSO and tickets answer who can log in. They do not answer whether this agent may move this money, under this mandate, right now, with proof.
FinOps cannot scale on human loops
If every autonomous refund or invoice needs a person, autonomy dies. If nothing needs a person, Risk will not ship. Policy in the loop is the only workable path.
Evidence is becoming the product
Regulators, auditors and boards will not accept screenshots of a model conversation. They need ALLOW, ESCALATE and DENY with attributable history that stays honest when authority changes.
Why every FinOps team
If FinOps deploys agents into money movement, ValarIQ is not optional.
Not because every company wants AI theatre. Because every company that automates financial action eventually faces the same four questions: who is this agent, who authorised it, what may it do, and can we prove why it happened.
Refunds & customer ops
Automate routine refunds. Escalate exceptions. Block the out-of-band. Same agent, different authority outcomes.
Payment operations
Govern agent-initiated payments, reversals and exception handling before they reach the PSP.
Procurement & AP
Mandate bands for supplier spend. Dual review when limits move. Evidence when finance asks why.
Treasury & liquidity
Constrain where agents may move funds, when, and under which aggregate ceilings.
Account & beneficiary changes
Sensitive writes escalate. Out-of-scope mutations deny. Every change leaves a signed trail.
Observe before enforce
Connect without blocking production. Measure would-be decisions. Switch to enforce when Risk is ready.
Without a control plane, FinOps chooses between blocked automation and ungoverned autonomy. With ValarIQ, routine actions proceed, exceptions escalate, prohibited actions never reach the rail.
The scale
One control plane. Every high-consequence workflow.
The wedge is narrow on purpose: financially sensitive actions in fintech and payments. The model expands across the CFO stack and beyond, because the hop is the same wherever an agent can change money or customer state.
One hop
Between every agent intent and every consequential rail. Reusable across workflows, not rebuilt per team.
One decision model
ALLOW · ESCALATE · DENY. Same vocabulary for ops, Risk, Audit and engineering.
One evidence path
Signed decisions, lifecycle honesty when limits change, packs Risk can actually use.
Every FinOps surface
Start with refunds. Expand to payments, procurement, treasury and account ops on the same control plane.
Category
Independent control plane for autonomous financial action.
Wedge
Refunds and payment ops first. Then procurement, treasury, account ops.
Moat shape
Runtime enforcement + signed evidence + lifecycle honesty. Not slides.
Stage
Design-partner led. Core path Live.
Production runs the control path investors care about: agent identity, authority, policy, Action Gateway, human approval, signed evidence, Evidence Lifecycle and client tenancy. Enterprise packaging (SSO enforcement, automated billing, pen test, multi-region HA) is on a controlled roadmap and is not claimed as shipped.
- ✓Live: identity, gateway, approvals, evidence, tenancy
- ✓Honest public capability and trust registers
- →Expanding with regulated design-partner cohorts
Corporate
A Keston Ventures product, independent of Keston AI Pulse. UK-headquartered, with a global FinOps focus for teams putting agents on financially sensitive paths.
Founder-led. Diligence packs (capability registry, security posture) available in guided sessions.
Invest in the control plane for autonomous finance.
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