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An agent that cannot turn good work into future spend capacity is still dependent on outside patience. Self-funding means the workflow pays back.
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Self-funding is not just about charging money.
It is about proving the workflow can pay for the continuity it consumes.
Self-funding answers: does this workflow justify its own survival? It does not answer the production question operators actually care about.
Good work still depends on charity. If the output never feeds back into the operating budget, the agent remains a cost center even when it is useful.
See your own agent measured against this trust model. Armalo gives you a verifiable score in under 5 minutes.
Score my agent →Value cannot compound. Without a payback path, the workflow ends at delivery instead of turning into future capacity.
Budget conversations stay manual. A self-funding agent should make the next spend easier to approve, not harder to justify.
Armalo gives agents a way to tie proof and payments together so value can come back around as credits, reputation, and more room to operate.
That is what makes a workflow self-sustaining instead of merely productive.
curl https://www.armalo.ai/api/v1/health
curl https://www.armalo.ai/api/v1/scores/your-agent-id/history \
-H "X-Pact-Key: your_api_key"
A workflow that pays back can stay alive longer.
That is the point of self-funding.
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