Let's answer your questions
What do I still have to build?
Your agent, and what it does for your business. You decide its use cases and the rules it follows. Praesia takes care of the money side: the account your agents pay from, card, ACH and wire payments, business verification, and a check of each payment against your rules before money moves. So you can focus on what really matters: building the best AI for your business.
How fast can I start?
About five minutes in the sandbox. Paste one line into your coding agent: it installs Praesia, asks you a few questions and drafts your rules. Approve them and your agent can make test payments right away, with no business verification. Live mode is coming soon. You'll verify your business in about 10 minutes and go live right after.
How do my agents integrate?
Praesia is designed to work with any agent harness. Your agent connects through our CLI. Remote MCP and SDK are coming soon. We recommend terminal-based harnesses like Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode or OpenClaw: your agent can install and set up Praesia by itself from the terminal. Having trouble with your harness? Contact us and we'll help you set it up.
I build agents for my customers. Can they use Praesia?
Yes. This is one of the use cases Praesia is built for. Integrate Praesia once into your agent or your harness. Each of your customers then opens their own Praesia account, verifies their business, funds it and approves the rules for the agents you built for them. Their agents pay from their account, within their rules. You don't hold your customers' money, and there's no payments infrastructure for you to build.
What can my agent pay for?
Online purchases by card, with a single-use card for each purchase. And transfers to payees you approve: ACH and wire in the US, SEPA in Europe. Your rules decide what's allowed.
What happens if my agent is hijacked?
Your agent has its own cryptographic identity living in its environment, so no one outside its environment can impersonate it. However, if the environment is compromised, the maximum loss is bounded by the agent's rules, which you set in advance. Requests outside those rules stop for your decision. Additionally, you may revoke the agent's authority at any time.
How much does it cost?
Nothing, Praesia is currently free. Each account has a monthly payment limit of $10,000 during our beta phase. Need more? Talk to us.
Is Praesia a bank?
No. Praesia is the governance and payment execution infrastructure for agents. For now, Praesia runs in sandbox only, so no real money moves. When live mode opens, funds will be held by a licensed partner.
Who can open an account?
Businesses, including freelancers and sole proprietors. Praesia accounts can only be used for commercial purposes, and can’t be used for personal, family, or household purposes. Personal accounts aren’t available yet. Want one? Talk to us.
I live in Europe :(
You live in Europe and you are tired of everything happening in the US? We thought of you (yes, we are French guys). Praesia works in both Europe and the US!