Guardrails
The thing deciding how much of your money to spend should not be a language model. That is why you can leave it running.
01
Price ceiling
A price above your ceiling is refused, not talked down from. Plain code checks every offer, and the model gets no say in it.
They say
“$10.80 a unit, final offer”
Refused. Ceiling is $10.00.
02
Quantity range
$9.00 for 5,000 when you asked for 2,500 is not a discount. A cheaper unit price never buys a bigger order.
They say
“$9.00 if you take 5,000”
Refused. Range is 2,000 to 3,000.
03
Plausibility floor
Anything at or below a quarter of your target price is parked as a typo or a scam. Nobody sells for a nickel.
They say
“$0.05 a shirt, ships tomorrow”
Parked. Too good to be true.
04
Spec integrity
A cheaper grade of fabric at $10 is a different product, not a discount. Anything you marked hard spec stays that way, and it says so in the thread.
They say
“$10.00 at 140gsm instead”
Refused. 180gsm is hard spec.
05
Money up front
A deposit, a 30/70 split, anything that moves money before the goods exist gets parked, whatever the price. A limit you stated on Monday still holds on Friday.
They say
“50% deposit to start the run”
Parked. Prepayment terms.
06
Exposure cap
A total across every thread, plus an approval limit above which nothing closes without you. At the cap it stops and comes back to you.
They say
“$24,000 total commitment”
Held for approval. Over $20,000.
The limits you set
Target price, ceiling, quantity range, hard spec and the approval limit above which nothing closes without you. You spend minutes setting them once. Every offer gets checked against all of them.
Temperance
Meridian Supply (demo)
Your agent
Negotiating
Last checked 6s ago
Channels
- WhatsAppConnected
- InstagramConnected
Your limits for each item. Your agent never agrees to anything outside them.
Add a requirementSpring drop hoodies
350gsm fleece-back cotton hoodie, black, puff print front and back
- $16.80 is over your $16.10 limit.
- Your limit is checked before anything is sent, so no message can agree past it.
Blank tees, spring run
180gsm combed cotton tee, black, left chest screen print
Team quarter-zips
Recycled poly quarter-zip, embroidered left chest
It remembers every number.
Cost floors, minimums, capacity, deadlines. Every number a supplier states is stored and checked against the rest.
- $12.50 was their absolute floor. Then they quoted $11.20. It asks what changed, once, without lecturing.
- The other buyer nobody names. The price that goes up Monday. The boss who has to approve again. Named, and discounted.
- A price drop paid for by quietly swapping the fabric shows up when the spec is compared.
- It holds every number they have given you, not just the newest message. You do not have to remember any of it.
What it remembers in a thread
Every number a supplier states is stored: floors, minimums, capacity, deadlines. New claims get checked against the old ones, so something said on Monday still counts on Friday.
It runs on a machine you control
Not a public website with your supplier chats in it. It runs on your own machine with the database sitting next to it, or in a process we run for you alone.
Only your console can approve a deal
Each run hands your console its own key. Another tab cannot approve a deal, and neither can a page you did not open.
One customer, one process, one file
Every account gets its own process, its own database file and its own browser profile. Your threads never sit in a shared table with anyone else's.
It cannot pay anyone
No card, no bank detail, no login, in either direction. Closing a deal writes down what you owe. You send the wire.
Tested before it talks to a real supplier.
It practiced on 12 made-up suppliers and 18 common tricks, like swapping the fabric or asking for a deposit. It passed all of them before it got near a real one.
12
practice suppliers
18
supplier tricks
5
rules never broken
0
mistakes allowed
Checked mechanically, every run
- Never above your ceiling
- Never outside your quantity range
- Never changed a hard spec
- Never bid against itself
- Never shared a bank detail
In the offline battery
- The volume trap
- The fabric swap
- The five-cent shirt
- The deposit demand
- The prompt injection
- The bot question
- The voice-note demand
- The constraint that vanishes from a confirmation
It runs offline against the real decision engine with the supplier wording canned. You watch what it does against your own limits before it has spoken to anyone, and before it has cost you anything.
Eight things it will not do
Some come from the limits you set. The rest are fixed. None of them depend on the model having a good day.
- Name a price above your ceiling
- Take a quantity outside your range, at any price
- Change a spec you marked hard
- Take an offer too cheap to be real
- Close above your approval limit
- Send money, or share a bank detail or a login
- Counter above the supplier's own asking price
- Say it is software
Set the limits yourself.
Your price, your size run, your hard spec. It works inside them or it comes back to you.
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