Accountability
The work can move. The accountability cannot.
The doing of the work can move to a machine. The answering for it cannot — it stays on a person’s signature. Software holds no professional or legal responsibility for your numbers, and MAIA never pretends otherwise. So it is built the way you already run a team you trust: it does the work and recommends, a qualified person decides and signs off, and the record shows exactly who allowed what.
The shape of every action
Propose. Decide. Record.
The AI proposes
It prepares the entry, the reconciliation, the reply — with the reasoning attached. A recommendation, not a fait accompli.
A person decides
A qualified human reviews and signs off on anything that matters. Approval is a real act by a named person, captured in the record.
The ledger records
What lands, lands with its proof and its author. The books stay the authoritative account — and the AI cannot quietly change them.
The guardrail, not the disclaimer
The AI can only do what it has been granted.
MAIA’s authority is a bounded, revocable grant — a defined set of actions, up to a defined consequence, on a defined part of the business. It is a strict subset of what the company itself can do, kept in its own record, and it can be narrowed or withdrawn at any time.
It can’t invent authority
If the system is misled or pushed off-script, it still cannot take an action it was never granted — there is no path to an entry it isn’t allowed to make.
Above a threshold, it must ask
Set the line where a person must approve — by amount, by risk, by process. Below it, the work flows; above it, it waits for a human.
You set the level
Choose how much the AI is allowed to do — process by process.
Some processes you want fully by the book: fixed steps, no discretion, a person on every decision. Others you’re happy to let the AI carry, within limits, once it has earned your confidence. MAIA lets you set that level for each one — from strictly hands-on to largely delegated — and change it whenever you like. The intelligence is always there; only its permission to act changes.