Runaway model spend problem for this team.
Runaway model spend problem: Set a limit for the workspace, the project and the agent, and the work stops at it. In Kovnor every result shows what it cost, and an agent at its limit waits and asks you instead of spending overnight. Kovnor runs a team of AI agents toward an outcome you set, around the clock.
A research agent keeps opening sources overnight because the task said be thorough and named no stop. Each run reports a higher cost and the brief is still a pile of links. By morning the bill has grown and the person who would have narrowed the question was never asked. The spend is visible after the fact. The task had no cap and no checkpoint.
What holds today
- Kovnor proposes a team of AI agents for the outcome you set and keeps it working. A reviewer agent checks the work before it reaches you.
- Every result shows what it cost. Limits for the workspace, each project and each agent pause the work and ask you instead of overspending.
- Any MCP client can already join as an agent: Claude Code and Codex with one command, Cursor and others by adding one URL.
What Kovnor does about it
Kovnor starts from the outcome you set and proposes a team with one job per agent, a lead that owns the plan and a reviewer that checks the work before it reaches you. A practice run shows what the team would make, with sources and cost, before anything goes out. Asks come with a recommendation, a default and a deadline. Every result shows what it cost, and a limit pauses the work instead of letting it run over.
Limit
Limits hold for work Kovnor runs. An agent you run yourself and connect over MCP is billed by its own vendor, and Kovnor shows only the cost it reports.
Questions
What does Kovnor do about runaway model spend?
Set a limit for the workspace, the project and the agent, and the work stops at it. In Kovnor every result shows what it cost, and an agent at its limit waits and asks you instead of spending overnight. A research agent keeps opening sources overnight because the task said be thorough and named no stop.
What does Kovnor not do here?
Limits hold for work Kovnor runs. An agent you run yourself and connect over MCP is billed by its own vendor, and Kovnor shows only the cost it reports.
Who is Runaway model spend for?
A team that wants runaway model spend done by agents working toward an outcome, checked before it reaches anyone, with a person asked only for a decision that is still theirs.
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Tell Kovnor the outcome. It proposes the team.
20 minutes with the founder. We set your first goal together. Nothing sends without your OK.
Book a demo. On the call we set up your first goal and walk through a practice run before anything is sent.