04   Agent Payments · National Rails

Governed, audited agent payments on the national rails.

AORBIT™ agents that stage — and, once the regulator permits, execute — payments on mada · SADAD · Sarie. A neutral position no single bank can hold, defensible as a bundle: neutrality, governance and audit, and span across rails and platforms.

// mada · SADAD · Sarie — one governed layer across the Kingdom’s payment rails.

See the payment flow
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The two tiers

Two tiers. One is available. We’re clear about which.

Tier 1 · Assisted
Pilot · design partner

Assisted Payments.

The agent prepares and stages a payment within consented limits; a human or a pre-authorized rule approves. We govern the action and produce the compliant audit trail. Operates under the existing PIS regime — running now with design partners.

Tier 2 · Autonomous
Gated · regulator / partner-dependent

Autonomous Payments.

Agent-initiated authorization within policy — no human in the loop. Regulator-gated (SAMA) — the next step on the same rails once permitted. Not available today, and we won’t present it as if it were.

// Assisted proves the controls. Autonomous inherits them — when the regulator says so, not before.

P/02
The payment flow

Consent to settlement, one governed path.

GOVERNED · AUDITED · NEUTRAL LAYERAGENTStages payment withinconsented limitsPOLICY + SPENDCHECKLimits · rules · revocationTIER 1 · ASSISTEDHuman / pre-authorized ruleapprovesPILOT · EXISTING PIS REGIMETIER 2 · AUTONOMOUSPolicy-only authorization —no human in the loopREGULATOR-GATED · SAMANATIONAL RAILSmada · SADAD · SarieTAMPER-EVIDENT AUDIT TRAILEvery agent-assisted and agent-initiated payment, on the record.
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Supporting modules

The plumbing under both tiers.

P/03·01
Pilot

Multi-Rail Abstraction

One integration across mada, SADAD, Sarie, and PIS. Rail-agnostic by design — agents integrate once; the layer speaks to each rail.

P/03·02
Pilot

Spend-Scoped Authorization

Per-agent payment limits, merchant and category rules, real-time revocation. Consent is scoped and enforced, not implied.

P/03·03
Pilot

Payment Audit Trail

A tamper-evident record of every agent-assisted and agent-initiated payment — the platform’s audit discipline, applied to money.

P/04
Why it holds

Defensible as a bundle. Never one part alone.

Any single piece of this is copyable. A bank can build governed payments — for its own customers, on its own rails. The position holds only as the bundle:

01 · Neutrality

A layer no single bank can hold — every bank is a participant, none is the owner.

02 · Governance & audit

Policy at the checkpoint and a tamper-evident record — the controls a regulator expects from anyone touching payments.

03 · Span

Across rails — mada, SADAD, Sarie, PIS — and across the agent platforms enterprises actually run.

Remove any one and the position collapses into something a bank or a platform could replicate. Together, it’s a layer the market needs someone neutral to be.

P/05
Kingdom context

Built for the Kingdom’s rails, under the Kingdom’s regime.

mada

The national card scheme.

SADAD

The national bill-payment platform.

Sarie

The instant payments system.

This stream is designed for Saudi Arabia’s national payment infrastructure and for SAMA’s regulatory regime governing it. Assisted payments operate under the existing PIS framework; autonomous payments wait on SAMA. That ordering isn’t caution for its own sake — it’s how a payments layer earns the standing to be trusted with the next step.

The direction is set: Vision 2030’s Financial Sector Development Program has moved the Kingdom’s payments digital, and agent-initiated commerce is the next step on that curve. We build for that direction — on the rails as they are, under the rules as they stand.

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Availability

Every module, tagged with an honest status.

Differentiator · Neutral layer

Agent Payments — National Rails

Assisted Payments
Agent stages a payment within consented limits; a human or pre-authorized rule approves. Operates under the existing PIS regime.
Pilot
Autonomous Payments
Agent-initiated authorization within policy — regulator-gated (SAMA).
Gated
Multi-Rail Abstraction
One integration across mada · SADAD · Sarie · PIS.
Pilot
Spend-Scoped Authorization
Per-agent limits, merchant/category rules, real-time revocation.
Pilot
Payment Audit Trail
Tamper-evident record of every agent payment.
Pilot
GAavailable nowPilotdesign partnerGatedregulator / partner-dependentRoadmapplanned

// Autonomous Payments stays Gated — regulator-dependent — until SAMA permits. Not a status we can change; not one we’ll spin.

Design partner program

Assisted payments is in pilot. Co-build what ships on the rails.