Agents, approvals and spend caps

Each agent has one job:

• Obelisk answers your questions in Chat and the Ask panel.
• SEO fixer prepares fixes for problems the audit found.
• Content strategist finds what to write or fix next.
• Writer writes or revises a draft in your business's voice.
• Publisher turns your request to publish into a change you approve.
• Analyst writes a site's Weekly report.
• Growth strategist plans the week and hands work to the team.

Agents come with the Pro, Team and Agency plans.

When an agent wants to change something, an approval card appears in the conversation with the agent's name, for example "SEO fixer wants to make a change". It shows Why, where the change lands, and Now next to After this change. Show the exact lines shows every line that changes.

1. Read the card.
2. Choose Approve to go ahead, or Not now to turn it down.
3. To change the values first, choose Edit, change the fields, then choose Approve with changes.

Only owners and admins can approve, edit or turn down a change. Changes waiting for you appear under Waiting for you in Chat. A request that nobody answers expires after 7 days, and nothing changes.

Emails an agent sends wait 2 minutes after approval, so you can still cancel them. After that they're sent and can't be unsent.

Open Chat in the sidebar and choose Actions. Every change Obelisk made is listed with What, When, Status (Working, Done, Failed or Undone) and a link to its conversation.

To undo a change, choose Undo on its row. The row says Undoing… until it's done. Obelisk puts back what was there before, unless someone has changed it since. Some changes say Can't be undone, such as an email that has already gone. Only owners and admins can undo.

To stop an answer mid-way, choose Stop.

Every agent in a workspace can also be paused at once. Pausing stops all agent work in progress, refuses new requests and blocks approved changes. You'll see "Agents are paused in this workspace. Resume them to continue." Only an owner or admin can resume them. There's no pause control on the app's screens, so to pause or resume every agent in your workspace, email support@theobelisk.app.

Autopilot lets an agent make some changes without asking first. It's off until it's turned on, and it comes with the Team and Agency plans. When it's on for an agent, that agent can only make the kinds of change listed for it, up to a monthly number of changes and a monthly budget. Anything outside those limits waits for approval. Its changes are logged and can be undone like any other. Autopilot can't be switched on from the app's screens, so every change waits for a person's approval.

Answers, agent work and other AI features use your monthly AI allowance. Each plan includes a monthly AI budget for your organization, and each workspace has its own monthly limit too.

When the allowance is used up, Chat says "This workspace has used its assistant allowance for this month." Other AI features say the allowance ran out and that they'll pick up next month. Allowances start again at the beginning of each month.