P3 · Agent Authority Proof

Delegate expense approval to AI agents.

Hide expense data and the approval authority itself
Prove within scope, the AI may approve

You want to automate expense approvals, but you can't hand an AI unlimited authority. With Lemma, "limit ¥100k," "budget category" and "team scope" become a scoped delegation verified at runtime — inside scope the agent approves autonomously, outside it escalates to a human.

Finance / FinTech · All industries · Accounting / Finance 2 min read
live in production since 2025 · Public-infrastructure PoC in production · ETHGlobal AI Agents 2026 Finalist
01 · THE PROBLEM

Three voices from the front line.

  • Accounting / finance

    “We want to automate expense approvals, but handing over unlimited authority is a real risk”

  • Legal / internal control

    “We want the AI's approval-authority scope kept in an auditable form”

  • Digital transformation

    “We want to cut approval turnaround from 24h to instant”

02 · THE SHIFT

Hand over the source, or just the facts?

Change what reaches the AI, and the leakage risk goes with it.

Without Lemma
Hand over the original
request:
¥85,000
category:
travel
approver:
AI-001
approved:
yes
log:
timestamp / IP / session_id…
↓ all of it goes to the AI / outside
With Lemma
Hand over just the facts
agent:
did:lemma:agent-expense-bot
delegatedBy:
did:lemma:org-acme-fin
role:
expense_approver
spendLimitUSDC:
1000
scope:
[travel, office, client]
validUntil:
2026-12-31
ZK verified:
✓ VALID
↓ only the necessary facts to the AI

The finance team issues a signed delegation with a spend ceiling, categories, scope and validity. Before approving, the agent verifies it stays within that scope at runtime — auto-approving inside it and escalating to a human outside it. Without disclosing the approval authority itself, the fact "approved within an authorized delegation" can later be independently verified.

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03 · HOW TO CHOOSE

Choose on three criteria.

Only work that needs all three at once — pass without exposing, independent verification, tamper-proof — is Lemma's domain.

Method Pass without exposing Independent verification Tamper-proof
Access control only
Masking / anonymization
Encryption only
Lemma (ZK proof)the only one with all 3
04 · HOW IT WORKS

What's next

We enter through delegation design and a PoC, and stay alongside you through to operations.

  1. A 30-minute review — identify the expense categories and limits you want to auto-approve.
  2. Design the delegation policy — who delegates, to whom, and how far (spendLimitUSDC / scope / validUntil).
  3. Connect to your existing workflow — place Lemma's verification layer in front of the approval system. Your existing stack keeps running.
  4. Prove one path via a PoC — implement auto-approval for one category in 4 weeks, confirming in-scope approval and out-of-scope escalation.
  5. Hands-on support through operations — existing plan tiers (Civic / Critical / Compliance) serve only as a cost reference; the setup and pricing are designed together.

Tell us one workflow stalled on expense-approval automation, in the first 30 minutes. No disclosure of approval authority required.

The bigger picture

The bigger picture this use case belongs to.

We map use scenarios across industries and workflows by the four axes.

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