The Canopy Field Guide · Updated weekly
Field notes from the agent economy.
Technical deep-dives, policy patterns, postmortems, and product updates from the team building the financial control plane for AI agents.
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/ 3 of 4 postsPolicy & Risk6 min
Three ways your AI agent will lose money — and how to stop it.
Every team running agents in production has a story about almost losing money. There are really only three shapes of that story, and a single control closes each one.
ATAtifApr 27
x402 / MPP6 min
What x402 and MPP make possible for agent builders.
For 25 years HTTP 402 was reserved for 'Payment Required' and unused. In the last 18 months it became the cleanest way to monetize APIs in the agent era — and the cleanest way for an agent to use them.
ATAtifApr 20
Use cases6 min
Treasury automation: paying vendors without losing oversight.
Most finance teams already have an agent backlog: 80 recurring vendor invoices, 15 SaaS renewals, a dozen one-off bills. They just haven't trusted an agent to touch them. Here's what changes that.
ATAtifApr 13