Trust & AI

What the AI can and can't do.

Karatry's AI can read your books, answer your questions and draft work for you. It can only do a short list of things, and we picked each one. Anything that moves money or stock waits for your approval.

The numbers

What the AI can reach

We went through everything you can do in Karatry and decided, one by one, what the AI may touch.

Most of Karatry is off limits to it

Karatry has 343 things a person can do in it. The AI can reach 16 of them. 8 of those wait for your approval: recording a payment, shipping an order, raising an invoice, creating or confirming a sales order, putting a piece into stock, and changing a style's parts list.

It cannot touch the rest at all. That includes deleting, refunds, credit notes, billing, repricing the catalog, restore points, accounting sync and sign-in settings. When we add something new to Karatry, the AI can't reach it until we decide it can.

And how the data itself is isolated →
What the AI can reach
November 2026
Things you can do in Karatry343
Off limits to the AI314
Sign-in and account security, never the AI13
Within the AI's reach16
Of those, waiting for your click8
Runs or waits

What runs on its own, and what waits

Questions and lookups run straight away. Money and stock always wait for your click.

Small drafts run, and you can undo them

A few harmless drafts run on their own too: a new customer, vendor, style, stock item or repair record, or a note. You can undo any of them. Each one is on record under the name of the person who asked for it.

When the AI has just read a document you uploaded, or text someone typed into a record, even those drafts wait for your approval. Text like that can carry instructions aimed at the AI.

What happens when you ask
every workspace
Questions and lookupsRun straight away
A new customer, style or noteRuns, and can be undone
After reading a documentDrafts wait for you
Payments, shipping, stockAlways wait for you
The approval card

You see what will happen before you approve

When the AI wants to record a payment or ship an order, it shows you a card first.

What you approve is what runs

The card says exactly what will happen: which customer, which style, which piece, how much. What runs is what the card showed you. When you click, Karatry checks again that your role allows it.

An approval is good for ten minutes. It works once, so nothing runs twice, and only in your workspace. If you decline, that is recorded too.

One approval
per card
Good for10 minutes
Can be usedOnce
Works inOnly your workspace
If you declineRecorded too
Daily limit

A daily limit on AI use

Every workspace has a daily limit on AI use. It is tighter during the trial, and trial AI is never billed. When the limit is reached, the AI pauses until midnight UTC. Nothing else in Karatry stops.

This limit is separate from the $10 of Karatry AI each seat includes every month. The pricing page sets that out.

Your own key

Running the AI on your own key

You can connect your own key from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google or a compatible gateway. We store it encrypted and never show it back to you in full.

Your provider bills you for that use. Karatry charges nothing for it on any plan, and it never counts against the Karatry AI your seats include. It still counts toward the daily limit.

Questions

Questions shop owners ask us

Can it move money on its own?

No. Recording a payment, raising an invoice, shipping an order and putting a piece into stock all wait for your click. The AI shows you a card, and nothing happens until you approve it. An approval is good for ten minutes and works once.

Does anything happen without me clicking?

Yes, a little. Questions and lookups run on their own, since that is the point of asking. So do small drafts like a new customer record or a note. They are on record and you can undo them. Money and stock always wait for you.

What stops a hidden instruction in one of my documents?

The AI can only do the short list of things we gave it, whatever a document says. Anything that moves money or stock still needs your click. When the AI has just read a document or typed-in text, even its small drafts wait for your approval. Karatry decides that before the AI reads a word, so the text can't talk its way around it.

Does it see other businesses' data?

No. It sees only your workspace, the same as you do. It also has the same permissions as the person asking. If your role can't do something by hand, the AI can't do it for you. The security page explains how your data is kept separate.

Will these numbers change?

Yes, as we add to Karatry. Anything new starts out of the AI's reach until we decide otherwise. Money and stock will always wait for your approval.

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