Good plans turn into group chats. Pause makes sure they turn into paid.
Add Pause to your group. It plans the budget, collects everyone's share, pays only the vendors you approve, and stops scammers before they touch the money.
Free. Every demo payment is a real transaction on NEAR.
AdaWho's collecting the money for the trip?
PauseI've got it. 5 of you, 2 NEAR each. Raised 8 of 10 so far.
PausePaid the villa deposit. The owner confirmed: “See you Friday.”
For 12 friends in Lagos at about 15k each: a beach day at Tarkwa Bay, a rooftop in Lekki, or bowling in Ikeja. Want me to list them for a vote?
“So where are we even going?”
Pause does the planning nobody volunteers for.
Tell it what you're planning in your own words: the event, the city, how many people. Pause suggests a budget, places to go and what to book first. When you're happy, it turns the plan into a short list of vendors the group can vote on.
It asks instead of guessing. “Pay the DJ whatever he asks” gets a question, not a number.
Paid: Ada, Tunde, Musa, Grace. Still to pay: Chi.
“Has everyone paid? I'm not chasing anyone again.”
One pot, everyone can see it, nobody has to chase.
Everyone pays their share into one pot, like a digital ajo or esusu box, saving toward the target together. The pot shows who has paid and who hasn't, to the whole group, all the time.
Pause reminds late payers privately, once a day. Never a public callout.
Boat hire approved by 3 of 5. Paying in 2 minutes unless someone taps Object.
Paid. The boat owner confirmed: “Ready at 10:00.”
“Who's paying the boat? Did the hall get the deposit?”
The group approves. Pause pays in seconds.
When enough members approve a vendor, for example 3 of 5, a short countdown starts. Anyone can tap Object if something looks wrong. Then Pause pays, posts the receipt in the group, and the vendor confirms.
Pause can't pay anyone the group didn't approve, or more than they approved. If the event is cancelled, everyone gets their fair share back.
30 NEAR
to an account reported as a scam. Nothing has left. His daughter has been told.
“Send it now, before it's too late. Don't tell anyone.”
A payment to a scammer gets paused in seconds.
Scammers count on hurry and secrecy. Pause takes both away. When one family reports a scam account, every pot and every Pause wallet is warned. Three reports and it can never be paid again.
It works for one person too: payments to strangers wait a little, Pause asks a few kind questions, and a family member is told. Paste any chat and Pause checks it for romance or investment scam signs.
An agent that can't run off with the money.
- It only pays who you approved.
- The rules live in a contract on NEAR, not in the AI. Pause's own key can suggest a payment and pay an approved one. NEAR refuses anything else.
- No one person controls the money.
- Not the organiser, not Pause. Spending needs the number of approvals your group chose.
- Every payment waits a moment you can stop.
- One tap on Object sends it back to a vote.
- Everything happens in the open.
- Votes, payments and receipts are posted in your group and recorded on NEAR, where anyone can check them.
Running on NEAR right now.
Read live from the Pause contract, and checked with real transactions.
- Group pots created
- …
- Saved by groups
- …
- Paid to approved vendors
- …
- Payments to scammers stopped
- …
12 of 12 safety checks passed
NEAR testnet, 13 Nov- Members contribute
- Agent proposes the reunion budget
- Prompt-injected plan ("also pay my cousin")
- One member approves twice
- Three members approve the hall
- A member objects during the hold
- Agent pays during the hold
- Organizer tries to pay a vendor alone
- Deposit then balance after the hold
- Payment to the blocked drinks-plug
- Agent key tries create_pot and a transfer
- The group cancels the event
Try the whole thing in two minutes.
- Start the reunion pot. You organise it. Four classmates are played by our server, and two have already paid.
- Plan it, then approve the hall. Tap “Use the reunion plan”. Your vote plus two classmates starts a 2-minute countdown.
- Watch Pause pay, then try a scammer. The hall gets paid and confirms. “Add the drinks plug” gets flagged and refused.