19 Aug 2026 · Guardrails desk · 4 min read
Watch, Recommend, Act: how much rope to give it
Three modes, set per account and per agent. What each one does overnight, and why almost everyone should start in the first.
Watch · Recommend · Act
Control exactly what the AI changes on your Amazon account
Three modes, set per account, per agent and per spend threshold. Watch changes nothing, ever. The default on a new account is Recommend.
You decide how much rope it gets
Set the mode per account, per agent, per spend threshold. Change it whenever. Everything is written to an audit log you can read and roll back.
Audit log · RECOMMEND mode · last night
03:42 · Margin staged a campaign pause. Awaiting approval (expires 18:00).
05:05 · Spend staged a bid cap at $1.42. Awaiting approval.
01:20 · Recovery drafted 41 case files. Awaiting approval.
The four questions you were going to ask anyway
Will it spend my client's money without asking?
Only if you switch it to Act mode and set a cap, and only inside that cap. Watch mode changes nothing, ever. The default on a new account is Recommend.
Is my client's data training a model?
No. Account data is used to make decisions on that account and nothing else. No training, no pooling across sellers, no sharing with other tenants. Read-only until you grant write access.
What happens when it's wrong?
You see why it was wrong, because the reasoning chain is attached to every decision. Actions taken in Act mode are logged and reversible, and any decision above your threshold escalates to a person instead of executing.
How long until it's actually useful?
The Decision Audit runs on seven days of history, so the first useful output arrives before you have configured anything. Full coverage across seven agents takes about a week of data.
More on permissions
The long version of the three modes, and a night printed out so you can see what each one would have done with it.
Connect one account, read-only. See seven days of what the agents would have caught.
That is the Decision Audit. No configuration, no write access, no call required to start.
Manifest — what lands in your inbox
01Every decision the seven agents would have surfaced, timestamped.
02The money attached to the ones you missed.
03The reasoning chain for each, so you can check our work.
04A read-only audit log of everything we touched.