For B2B SaaS founders who are the bottleneck

Your judgment. Without you in the room.

You are the smartest person in your company. You're spending 4 hours a day proving it on decisions that shouldn't need you - refund requests, expense approvals, hiring screens, scope disputes, vendor contracts.

DelegateZero learns how you think - your policies, your precedents, your judgment - and makes those decisions for you. Perfectly. Auditably. Without asking. Connect the API, load your context once, and step out of the loop.

        curl -X POST https://delegatezero.com/api/v1/decisions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "request": "From: Sarah Chen \nCompany: Northstar Health\nSubject: Friday launch confirmation\n\nCan you confirm we are definitely live by Friday? Our team wants to announce it in Monday's board update."
  }'
        import axios from "axios";

const decision = await axios.post(
  "https://delegatezero.com/api/v1/decisions",
  {
    request: "From: Sarah Chen \nCompany: Northstar Health\nSubject: Friday launch confirmation\n\nCan you confirm we are definitely live by Friday? Our team wants to announce it in Monday's board update."
  },
  {
    headers: {
      Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.API_KEY}`
    }
  }
);
        import requests
import os

response = requests.post(
  "https://delegatezero.com/api/v1/decisions",
  headers={
    "Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['API_KEY']}",
    "Content-Type": "application/json"
  },
  json={
    "request": "From: Sarah Chen \nCompany: Northstar Health\nSubject: Friday launch confirmation\n\nCan you confirm we are definitely live by Friday? Our team wants to announce it in Monday's board update."
  }
)
        {
  "id": "dec_abc123xyz",
  "decision": "execute",
  "confidence": 0.92,
  "response": "Hi Sarah, thanks for checking. I would not confirm a Friday launch. As with the Meridian rollout in January, we should wait until engineering sign-off before giving a firm go-live date. Right now Monday is the safer target, so I would frame Monday's board update around that timing rather than a Friday commitment.",
  "audit_url": "https://delegatezero.com/app/decisions/abc123xyz"
}

How it works

Your judgment into a system

DelegateZero is built for founders who've become the bottleneck. Not because they micromanage - because nobody else has the context or authority yet. It turns the judgment you've built over hundreds of decisions into a system that acts for you, within rules you control.

Capture how you decide

DelegateZero becomes the central knowledgebase for your decision-making:

  • Your preferences, rules, and boundaries
  • Past approvals, rejections, and explanations
  • Examples of how you handle edge cases
  • Corrections when something isn't quite right

Over time, this forms a durable model of how you think - not just what buttons to click. Every decision you've made is making the next one. This is what makes real delegation possible.

Requests come to DelegateZero - not you

When a decision is required, your systems call DelegateZero instead of interrupting you. A request might be:

  • A Slack message
  • An email
  • A support ticket
  • An internal approval
  • A webhook from any system

DelegateZero decides what context it needs, retrieves it from its knowledgebase and live systems, and handles it. You don't predefine flows. You delegate authority - once, not for every decision.

DelegateZero reasons as your proxy

DelegateZero evaluates the situation the way you would:

  • Applies your policies and constraints
  • Weighs precedent and similar past decisions
  • Accounts for risk, ambiguity, and missing information
  • Scores confidence before taking action

If confidence is high, it proceeds. If it's not, it escalates - with clear rationale. Autonomy is conditional, explicit, and earned.

It acts - or escalates - with accountability

Depending on your rules and confidence thresholds, DelegateZero will:

  • Respond or approve on your behalf
  • Respond clearly as an assistant when appropriate
  • Draft a response for review
  • Escalate only what truly requires you

Every decision includes: the reasoning behind it, the context that mattered, and a full audit trail. You always know why something happened - even when you weren't involved.

Memory builds your behavioral fingerprint

Every decision DelegateZero makes writes a Memory record automatically - no user action required:

  • The decision, the confidence score, and the outcome
  • Whether you overrode it - and what you did instead
  • Communication history from connected email and Slack
  • Correction events that immediately sharpen future decisions

Over 90 days, you have a behavioral fingerprint nobody else has. The difference between Precedents and Memory is the difference between a resume and a surveillance tape. Both are useful. Only one captures how you actually operate.

Escalation patterns surface what's missing

Every escalation has a reason - missing context, policy conflict, low confidence. Confidence Autopsy surfaces patterns across all of them:

  • Which context gaps are causing the most interruptions
  • The single addition that would resolve the most escalations
  • Weekly digest delivered to your inbox - not just a dashboard
  • Auto-calibration prompts when override patterns repeat

Instead of concluding the tool isn't smart enough, you see exactly what to feed it to make it stop bothering you. Frustration becomes a clear action.

Stop being the bottleneck.
Keep your standard.

You don't just move faster - you step away. DelegateZero lets you stop answering every customer escalation, stop approving every expense, stop being the last gate on decisions you've already made a hundred times. Not because AI is “autonomous” - but because it's representing you, within boundaries you control.

This is how founders at $1M ARR operate like founders at $10M ARR - without the headcount.

Use cases

Every decision you've made is making the next one

DelegateZero represents you in the exact decisions that pile up when you're the only one with context and authority - customer escalations, vendor approvals, hiring screens, scope disputes, partnership inquiries.

Every use case follows the same pattern: retrieve your judgment → reason under constraints → act on your behalf or escalate.

"Can I expense a $420 client dinner from last night?"

How DelegateZero acts for you:

  1. Retrieves your expense rules and similar past approvals
  2. Confirms the amount and category fall within your boundaries
  3. Responds on your behalf when confidence is high - or escalates if context is missing

Outcome: Approved automatically, with conditions - no interruption.

"Vendor wants Net-15 and 30% upfront. Legal already pushed back - can we do it anyway?"

How DelegateZero acts for you:

  1. Pulls your past decisions on contract exceptions
  2. Applies risk limits and precedent from legal reviews
  3. Declines or escalates on your behalf with a clear rationale

Outcome: Safely blocked and routed for executive review.

"Customer is asking for a refund after 46 days due to an outage."

How DelegateZero acts for you:

  1. Retrieves your refund policy and how you've handled similar cases
  2. Weighs SLA impact, customer tier, and timeline
  3. Issues a partial refund or escalates with a recommendation

Outcome: Resolved without manager involvement - or escalated with context.

"Prospect hasn't replied since pricing. Should I follow up again?"

How DelegateZero acts for you:

  1. Reviews prior communications and your follow-up rules
  2. Applies your tone preferences and do-not-pester limits
  3. Sends a follow-up on your behalf or closes the loop

Outcome: The right message, sent at the right time - without you checking CRM.

"Candidate is strong but only has 3 years of experience. Move forward?"

How DelegateZero acts for you:

  1. References your hiring criteria and similar past decisions
  2. Weighs portfolio quality against stated requirements
  3. Advances, rejects, or escalates with reasoning

Outcome: Screening decisions happen without slowing the pipeline.

"Can I get temporary read access to prod for debugging?"

How DelegateZero acts for you:

  1. Applies your access rules and security constraints
  2. Checks role, urgency, and required approvals
  3. Denies or escalates safely - never over-grants

Outcome: Secure by default, no trust shortcuts.

"Approve this $2,500 invoice? Vendor says it's overdue."

How DelegateZero acts for you:

  1. Retrieves vendor history and prior approvals
  2. Applies spend thresholds and anomaly checks
  3. Approves, requests clarification, or escalates

Outcome: Routine approvals handled without review fatigue.

"Can I expense dinner from last night and take Friday off?"

How DelegateZero acts for you:

  1. Separates distinct intents
  2. Applies the correct policies to each
  3. Responds on your behalf where allowed and routes the rest

Outcome: Partial decisions handled correctly - no back-and-forth.

"Hi - just wanted to check if we're still on track to deliver the revised proposal by Friday. If not, please let me know what timing works on your end."

How DelegateZero acts for you:

  1. Retrieves your past delivery commitments and similar client communications
  2. Checks how you typically respond when timelines are tight or uncertain
  3. Responds on your behalf with a realistic commitment or escalates if risk is high

Outcome: The client gets a clear answer without you overcommitting.

"Can you confirm whether this request is included in our current scope, or should we treat it as a separate piece of work?"

How DelegateZero acts for you:

  1. References how you've handled scope clarification in similar situations
  2. Applies your boundaries around included vs out-of-scope work
  3. Responds clearly on your behalf or escalates if the case is ambiguous

Outcome: Scope is clarified without pulling you into the thread.

"Hey - I reviewed the doc and made a few changes. Can you take a quick look and let me know if this is okay to send to the client?"

How DelegateZero acts for you:

  1. Retrieves what “okay to send” has meant in your prior approvals
  2. Checks for known red flags or missing elements you usually care about
  3. Approves on your behalf or flags specific concerns

Outcome: Routine reviews are handled without interrupting you.

"Looping you in for visibility. We're planning to move forward with the current approach unless you disagree."

How DelegateZero acts for you:

  1. Determines whether this type of message usually requires your response
  2. References similar FYI threads you've acknowledged or ignored
  3. Takes no action or replies briefly on your behalf

Outcome: You stay informed without being dragged into noise.

"We're running behind on our side and may need to push the deadline to next Wednesday. Does that work for you?"

How DelegateZero acts for you:

  1. Checks your flexibility rules and prior schedule adjustments
  2. Considers downstream impact and existing commitments
  3. Agrees, proposes an alternative, or escalates based on your preferences

Outcome: Scheduling decisions are handled calmly and consistently.

"I'm not sure who should take this - can you let me know who owns it?"

How DelegateZero acts for you:

  1. Reviews how you typically assign or delegate similar tasks
  2. Considers team roles, ownership patterns, and context
  3. Routes the request or escalates if ownership is unclear

Outcome: Work gets routed without you playing traffic cop.

"Before I move forward with this, can you confirm you're okay with the approach?"

How DelegateZero acts for you:

  1. Evaluates the decision against your past approvals and constraints
  2. Checks for risk, cost, or precedent that would normally cause hesitation
  3. Approves on your behalf or escalates with clear rationale

Outcome: Clear direction is given even when you're unavailable.

"Just wanted to flag this and see if you have any concerns before we proceed."

How DelegateZero acts for you:

  1. Determines whether this requires explicit approval or passive consent
  2. References similar cases where you allowed things to proceed
  3. Responds, stays silent, or escalates based on your norms

Outcome: Progress continues without unnecessary back-and-forth.

Plans

Pricing that scales with your team

01Solo

$49/mo

For founders and operators stepping out of the loop.

02Operator

$149/mo

For power users and managers running high-volume decisions.

03Team

$399/mo

For small teams with shared decision authority.

04Scale

$999/mo

For orgs with high-volume, compliance, and multi-team delegation.

Decision volume

How many decision requests DelegateZero handles per month - approvals, responses, routing, and escalations.

1,000/month

5,000/month

20,000/month

Unlimited

Users

Number of users who can access and configure DelegateZero within the account.

1 user

1 user

Up to 5

Up to 20

Usage overages

What happens when you exceed your monthly volume. Overages keep you running through breakout months without interruption.

$0.04/decision

$0.04/decision

$0.04/decision

Included

Knowledgebase

How much context DelegateZero retains - policies, precedents, memory, entities, playbooks, and more.

Unlimited

Unlimited

Unlimited

Unlimited

Confidence Autopsy

Weekly digest showing which context gaps caused the most escalations - and the one addition that would resolve the most of them.

Decision Debt

A running ledger of unresolved escalations, stale policies, drifting entity relationships, and correction orphans - ranked by the likelihood of blowing up in the next 14 days.

Count only

Decision Simulation

Test a new policy or playbook against historical decisions before committing it - see exactly how outcomes would have changed.

Judgment Coaching

When DelegateZero detects a pattern of overrides in a category, it stops guessing and starts asking. One question per decision, your reasoning folded in - until the category earns autonomous trust.

Judgment Profiles

Export your decision model as a portable profile. Transfer it to a new hire, a second workspace, or a team member taking over a domain.

Delegation Chains

Multi-layer decision authority across your team. Each person inherits and extends the layer above - overrides only affect their own layer.

Audit logs & export

Visibility into every decision - the context used, logic applied, confidence score, and outcome. Exportable at higher tiers.

Basic

Detailed

Full export

Full export

This took a category of work off my plate

"I didn't want another workflow tool. I wanted fewer decisions coming back to me. That's what this did. Once we put enough context into it, it started making the same calls I would've made on a lot of day-to-day stuff, which honestly was the whole point."

Aaron Hart, Co-founder

FAQs

Frequently asked questions

What is DelegateZero?

DelegateZero is a decision proxy built for founders who are the bottleneck. It represents your judgment in situations where a human - specifically you - would normally need to weigh in. Using your stored preferences, prior decisions, and policies, it acts on your behalf or escalates only when truly needed.

How is this different from workflow automation or rules engines?

Workflow tools execute predefined steps. DelegateZero evaluates each situation dynamically, retrieves relevant context, reasons under constraints, and decides whether to act, draft, or escalate. It's designed for ambiguity, not fixed flows.

Is DelegateZero autonomous?

DelegateZero never acts outside of explicit boundaries. Every action is gated by confidence thresholds, policies, and escalation rules you control. Autonomy is conditional and earned.

What happens when DelegateZero isn't confident?

It escalates. You receive the decision, the reasoning behind it, and the minimum set of questions needed to proceed. Uncertainty is never hidden. You can also decide to have DelegateZero respond as your assistant if not fully confident.

Can DelegateZero respond as me?

Yes. You can choose whether responses are sent as you or clearly attributed to an assistant acting on your behalf. Many teams start with assistant attribution and expand over time.

What kind of information does DelegateZero store?

DelegateZero stores two kinds of context. Curated context - policies, precedents, playbooks, entities, and templates - is added deliberately by you. Memory is accumulated automatically: every decision DelegateZero makes, every override you issue, and communication history from connected systems writes a record without any user action. You control retention and what's used for reasoning.

Does DelegateZero get smarter over time?

Yes - and it does it without extra work from you. Every decision, override, and correction is written to Memory automatically. When you override a decision, that signal is flagged. After a pattern repeats, DelegateZero surfaces it: "You've overridden this type of decision 6 times - want to update your policy?" The system calibrates on your actual behavior, not just what you tell it upfront.

Does it pull live data from other systems?

On Operator plans and above, DelegateZero can retrieve live data from connected systems when needed. It does this selectively - only when additional context is required to make a decision.

Can I see why a decision was made?

Always. Every decision includes an audit trail showing the inputs considered, rules applied, confidence level, and outcome.

Built for founders who've outgrown being the bottleneck

Start delegating decisions

DelegateZero earns trust gradually. Connect the API, load the decisions you've already made, and let it handle what comes next. Start conservatively with draft responses and escalations - and expand autonomy as confidence grows. Most founders see value within the first week.