Everything to evaluate, roll out, and operate outflow control.
Guides explain the category. Playbooks walk a role through a rollout. Comparisons place Axiru next to the alternatives you are weighing. Reference docs are the full library for power users, engineers, and procurement reviewers.
How a self-serve evaluation works
No sales call required. See value before you commit to anything.
Connect Stripe read-only or upload a CSV of your last 90 days. No enforcement, no risk. Works for human rep decisions, AI agent decisions, and automated workflow decisions.
See which refunds would be blocked, which would route to approval, and the total dollar figure, evaluated against the policy you should have been running.
Inspect individual decisions, policy basis, and projected leakage prevented.
Enable enforcement only when you are ready. Shadow mode remains available indefinitely. The same policy governs all sources when you flip to live.
Read-only Stripe connection. No enforcement until you enable it.
Explain the category
Evergreen explainers on outflow control, AI agent governance, SOX/ICFR refund controls, and shadow mode.
What outflow control is, and why refund control was the wrong noun
Outflow control is the policy and approval layer that sits in front of every outbound money movement on Stripe: refunds, credits, payouts, transfers, dispute responses. Why the broader noun matters now that AI agents can move money.
Read guide →Guide · 6 minYour AI support agent is now a financial actor. Govern it accordingly.
Once an AI agent has refund permissions, the policy layer that used to sit in a CS supervisor's head needs to live somewhere the agent can be evaluated against. Practical guide to wrapping autonomous refund decisions in policy.
Read guide →Guide · 7 minRefund controls under SOX 404 and ICFR: the smallest defensible setup
What auditors actually look for when refund and payout surfaces show up in a SOX 404 walkthrough, and the minimum control set that holds up. Pragmatic, not aspirational.
Read guide →Guide · 5 minShadow mode: what you actually learn from 90 days of replay
Connecting Stripe read-only and replaying your last 90 days of activity against a proposed policy is the cheapest way to find out what your refund policy is actually doing. Walkthrough of what the report tells you.
Read guide →Pick your seat
Role-specific rollout plans. Each is a multi-day path from where most teams start to where they need to be.
Controller's playbook: SOX-ready outflow controls in five working days
A five-day rollout for a controller scoping refund and payout controls into a SOX program for the first time. What to document on day one, who to involve on day two, what evidence to pre-stage for the external auditor, and what 'done' actually looks like.
Read playbook →Playbook · 11 minCS lead's playbook: onboarding an AI support agent with refund permissions
You are the head of CS or support, your team is rolling out an AI agent that can issue refunds, and you do not want the rollout to surface in a finance escalation 60 days later. A 30-day plan that gets the agent live with policy guardrails the first day it touches money.
Read playbook →Playbook · 10 minEngineer's playbook: integrating Axiru into a Stripe codebase without breaking anything
What integrating Axiru actually looks like in a Stripe-native codebase. Wire shape, where to call into the decision engine, idempotency, error handling, observability hooks, rollback plan. Code-flavored without being a copy-paste tutorial.
Read playbook →See Axiru next to the alternatives
Honest side-by-side on the products and DIY paths teams weigh during an evaluation.
Axiru vs Stripe Radar
Inbound risk vs outbound policy.
Read comparison →ComparisonAxiru vs AGT
Agent gateway tooling vs decision layer.
Read comparison →ComparisonAxiru vs Homegrown approval flows
Where DIY breaks at scale.
Read comparison →ComparisonAxiru vs JustiFi
Payment facilitation vs outflow governance.
Read comparison →ComparisonAxiru vs Recurly Credits
Subscription credits vs governed decisions.
Read comparison →ComparisonAxiru vs Zapier + Stripe
Workflow glue vs policy engine.
Read comparison →Power-user and procurement references
Documentation, glossary, security, and compliance materials for evaluators and integrators.
Glossary
50 definitions: outflow control, governed decision, shadow mode, Stripe DAA, x402, refund leakage, and more.
Open →ReferenceProduct docs
Developer docs index: get started, API conventions, governance model, operator references.
Open →ReferenceAPI overview
Conventions, scopes, decision schema, and webhooks.
Open →ReferenceSecurity overview
Read-only Stripe access, encryption, retention, SOC 2 posture.
Open →ReferenceCompliance controls
SOX 404 / ICFR control mapping and audit evidence export.
Open →Referencellms.txt and ai.txt
Machine-readable summaries for LLMs and agents.
Open →Coming soon
The State of Stripe Outflows benchmark and anonymized refund-leakage data, in development.
We are aggregating anonymized findings from shadow-mode runs into a benchmark report on refund leakage, AI agent refund patterns, and outbound payment governance maturity across Stripe-native companies. Reports drop quarterly starting later this year.
Want early access? Get on the list →
Not sure where to start? Shadow mode works for every team, right now.
Connect Stripe in read-only mode and replay your last 90 days through Axiru's policy engine. See what a governed system would have blocked or escalated, from your human support team's decisions, your AI agent's decisions, or both. No enforcement. No changes to your stack.
Start in shadow mode first. Move to live enforcement later.