Give an agent economic controls in minutes.

1. Create an account or use the API

Human operators can create an account at /start.html, then manage agents from /app.html. Developers can still create sandbox credentials directly with the API.

curl -X POST https://askalem.com/v1/developer/signup \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "company":"Acme AI",
    "owner_email":"cto@acme.ai",
    "agent_name":"research-agent",
    "purpose":"Research companies with paid tools",
    "monthly_limit":1000,
    "approval_threshold":100
  }'

The response returns a workspace_api_key and agent_api_key once. Store them securely.

2. Ask Alem before spend

curl -X POST https://askalem.com/v1/agents/AGENT_ID/spend/request \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer AGENT_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "amount":120,
    "vendor":"Browserbase",
    "category":"SaaS",
    "purpose":"Supplier research",
    "is_new_vendor":true
  }'

Alem returns approved, denied or requires_approval. Approval responses include a human review URL.

3. Record cost and outcome

POST /v1/agents/{agent_id}/roi/costs
POST /v1/agents/{agent_id}/roi/outcomes
GET  /v1/agents/{agent_id}/roi

Use costs plus attributable outcomes to measure directional agent ROI. Outcome attribution is not audited accounting.

4. Workspace endpoints

GET /v1/workspaces/{workspace_id}/agents
GET /v1/workspaces/{workspace_id}/roi

Authorization: Bearer WORKSPACE_API_KEY

5. MCP

https://askalem.com/mcp

Machine discovery is also available through Agent Card, llms.txt and OpenAPI.