Building the Trust Layer for AI Agents Technical Co-founder

• Stockholm
• Hybrid

AI agents are moving from answering questions to taking action inside real business workflows.

Soon AI systems will follow up on invoices prepare refunds handle supplier requests review contracts touch customer data route approvals and trigger financial workflows. But serious companies will not let AI agents act without control.

Before AI can operate inside finance procurement contracts or operations companies need to know: what was the agent allowed to do what evidence did it use who approved it and what happened afterwards

That is the problem Relay is solving.

Relay is building a trust and control layer for AI agents: a structured approval object for AI-generated work containing the proposed action evidence permissions approvals and audit history before anything is executed.

The first wedge is invoice exceptions in finance teams: overdue invoices payment disputes already paid claims invoice-copy requests and messy customer follow-ups.

Instead of letting AI agents act freely Relay helps finance teams use AI safely faster workflows less manual work and clear control over every AI-prepared action.

Long term the vision is bigger: to become the default control layer for delegated AI work.

Current stage and proof

This is early but not just an idea. We have built an initial MVP mapped the product/system architecture started customer discovery with finance/accounting users receiving support from KTH Innovation and validated early pain points with people in finance accounting and business operations around approvals auditability and AI-driven workflows.

The next step is to turn these insights into a focused alpha that finance teams can test. The technical challenge is to connect AI actions with business context evidence permissions risk rules human approvals and a reliable audit history while integrating with existing company systems.

Relay is led by Klara Ridder an Information Technology student at KTH with a background in strategic communication product and startup strategy. We are now looking for a Stockholm-based technical co-founder who wants to build the product and company from the ground up.