Stop the spend before it leaves the building.
For the team that has to answer for a bill, a purchase, or a lease figure. A bill, a purchase, or a lease figure waits until someone on your side has seen it.
A click asks for a person. It does not run the control. The stop is the control the customer chose, not East Bay cutting a payment. The customer's person approves. East Bay does not.
Sample
The work
- Turn a workflow offIf it is not installed, it cannot run. If it is not installed, there is no call to send.
- Cap the AI billA charge with no price is refused. A priced charge is refused only when the customer set a ceiling.
- Hold the $10,000 purchaseAt $10,000, or with a new vendor, it waits. The $10,000 is your hold, not a fee, and it cannot be raised. It is not an amount owed to East Bay Services.
- Read the leaseRent, term, notice, and deposit, each tied to the sentence. No opinion on what the clause means. We do not score the clause.
- Hold the pay-to changeA change to where a bill would be paid waits for a person, at any amount. We do not call the vendor, and we do not check the account. The record waits.
The line
We prepare the record. Your person approves it. We do not hold the deposit, and we do not release the payment.
No card on this page.
Notes
Other people's figures, not Haltline's result.
A workflow that is not installed cannot run. IBM's 2025 Cost of a Data Breach report found that, among the organizations studied, 20% said they suffered a breach due to security incidents involving shadow AI, and those breaches added $200,321 to the average breach price tag (IBM, 2025 Cost of a Data Breach). That figure is a breach cost, not a software bill. The same report found that 97% of AI-related security breaches involved AI systems that lacked proper access controls (IBM, 2025 Cost of a Data Breach). If it is not installed, it cannot run on the side.
A charge with no price is refused. A priced charge is refused only when the customer set a ceiling. In 2026, Uber had exhausted its entire 2026 artificial intelligence budget by April (Forbes). The FinOps Foundation's executive director said that in April and May he was hearing from companies that they were 3x over their entire 2026 token budget, and it's only April (TechCrunch). The Token Budgets catalog counted 63 confirmed production incidents, from 2023 through April 2026 (Token Budgets catalog).
Anything at $10,000, or a vendor you have not used, waits for a person. The $10,000 line is your rule, not a statistic. The Hackett Group's 2018 User Experience and Maverick Spend Study reported that the peer group lost 20% of targeted or negotiated cost reductions to maverick buying in finished goods for resale, in capital equipment operations, and in general equipment and supplies, and that 75% of end-users say having self-service and guided buying tools would help reduce maverick spending (Hackett Group study). Separately, the Association for Financial Professionals found that 76% of organizations in the United States experienced attempted or actual payments fraud in 2025 (Association for Financial Professionals). The hold does not prove the vendor. It can refuse to seal a record. It does not sit on a payment.
Rent, term, notice, and deposit, each tied to the sentence it came from. We do not tell you what the clause means. We do not score the clause. Prophia's 2025 lease-abstraction benchmark, a vendor report, put average exposures from common mistakes exceeding $180,000 per building (Prophia). Treat that as their benchmark, not an official series. The control does not interpret the clause. It keeps rent, term, notice, and deposit attached to the sentence they came from.
A change to where a bill would be paid waits for a person, at any amount. The FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center recorded 24,768 business-email-compromise complaints in 2025 and $3,046,598,558 in reported losses, up from $2,770,151,146 in 2024 (FBI IC3 2025 report). The ordinary shape is a real vendor thread asking for a new place to pay. We do not call the vendor, and we do not check the account. The record waits.
What we are not
We do not do the work.
We do not interpret a lease.
We do not file or adjust a claim.
How you buy a pilot.
The pilot is the one control the customer picks. The other four are not installed. Their person approves it. The customer keeps the key and the sealed record. East Bay does not receive them, does not hold a deposit, and does not release a payment. No price.
Customers who buy the software choose token usage, consumption, capability, and functionality. East Bay still does not mark a record approved, does not hold a deposit, and does not release a payment.
A walkthrough, then an invoice, stay the later steps, with no amount. The invoice is software only, not a contractor, not a lawyer, not an insurer. Before any invoice, their person signs what is on: the controls, their ceiling, the $10,000 hold as their line, and the three refusals. No card. A request is not an order.