The path changes.
A fallback payment can proceed while the original may still complete.
Company Payments first. A bigger horizon.
More autonomy.
One authority.
Software can change tools, banks and routes in an instant. The right to act must hold through every change.
We’re building the control layer for that moment. Starting with the decision to pay again.
Different paths.The same right to act.
HALTSEALDecision before action.
Intelligence can propose. Authority decides.
Inspect the evidenceThe horizon
A faster world needs
a firmer boundary.
Our mission
Keep accountable organizations in control as software gains autonomy.
Our ambition
A neutral, deterministic control layer before consequential actions. Payments first.
The authority holds.
Preserve the same right to pay when the execution path changes.
The decision is inspectable.
Connect each result to its evidence and its limits.
See the principle in one payment workflow →
Each integration requires technical and operational validation.
Available today · SDK v2 and scoped evaluation
A concrete start.
A defined next proof.
Available today
Evaluate the Payment API.
Start a free company Workspace Sandbox, set up one supported workflow and inspect its authority and evidence. The public SDK demo remains a separate synthetic exercise. Production requires qualification and operating approval.
Review pricing and adoptionReleased SDK evidence
Original recovery reproduced.
Public RC4 records 144 Python tests, six real process-kill boundaries and two local installations from identical archives. These are synthetic, one-host results.
Review the release and limitsNext external proof
Qualify the real boundary.
Native provider acceptance and the host boundary, then customer workflow coverage and accepted recovery. Each requires its own evidence and approval.
Inspect the next milestonePublic RC4 is a synthetic local record. In that record, native provider calls, actual customer paths and separate physical hosts tested are 0. The October 9 installed reference has separate Increase sandbox evidence and limits. Customer installations remain 0. Real-money production is not approved.
The founder
Built from experience.
Driven by a conviction.
Scott designed HALTSEAL’s control model and wrote the core reference implementation.
His background spans Treasury, marketplace operations and machine authorization. HALTSEAL brings those experiences to one question: what must be true before software is allowed to act?
Finance and systems
Columbia.
J.P. Morgan.
Operations Research at Columbia University. Treasury at J.P. Morgan.
Previous company · Gooroo
$1M+ ARR
Seven years building a venture-backed education marketplace, with a network of 1,000+ tutors.
Authorization and execution
Patents.
Protocol work.
A named inventor on issued U.S. patents in machine authorization and execution controls. Author of an individual Internet-Draft on PermitReceipts.
Published in
ACMQueue
A Valid Tool Call Can Still Be an Invalid Effect
Why systems must verify the conditions behind an AI action at execution time.
How we build
Ambition.
With discipline.
Evidence first.
Claims should never outrun the evidence. Keep local tests, independent reproduction, buyer interest and commercial results distinct.
Exact at release.
Keep the exact action, current authority, prior outcome and governed route reviewable at release.
Accountability by design.
Build for the people and institutions that bear the consequence.
Build with us
What comes next
needs a boundary.
Evaluating a workflow, exploring a partnership, or investing in this future? Let’s talk.