Deploying Agent Controls Across a Multi-Entity Treasury

A global enterprise implemented Clarc's authorization layer to govern AI-initiated payment approvals across 14 subsidiaries — achieving zero unauthorized disbursements since go-live.

The Challenge

The client's treasury team had deployed AI agents to manage spend approvals, invoice processing, and inter-entity transfers across 14 subsidiaries. Each subsidiary carried its own approval thresholds, currency corridors, and delegation rules — a set of constraints the existing ERP-native controls had no way to enforce consistently or verify centrally.

The Solution

Clarc's authorization layer was deployed alongside the client's existing ERP and treasury platform, evaluating every agent-initiated payment against subsidiary-specific policy before execution — not after.

1. Registered each subsidiary's delegation authorities and approval thresholds in the Clarc registry
2. Routed every agent-initiated payment instruction through real-time authorization checks
3. Escalated out-of-policy actions to human review automatically
4. Delivered a unified, tamper-evident audit trail across all 14 entities

Results

• 99.6% policy compliance
• Zero unauthorized disbursements
• Real-time audit delivery

We needed a single source of truth for what our agents were actually authorized to do across every entity — not 14 different answers depending on who you asked.

— Treasury Operations Lead, Enterprise Treasury Client