Pause AI

The AI agent that plans, secures and pays for you.

Add Pause to your group chat. It helps you plan the event, collects everyone's share into one pot (like a digital ajo box), pays only the vendors your group approves, and stops scammers before they can run with the money. The same safety protects one person: payments to strangers wait a moment, and a family member is told if something looks wrong.

Every group that raises money has one tired person chasing payments and one nervous question: what if the treasurer runs off with it? Pause is a treasurer that never gets tired and can't run off.

Live: https://pauseai-near.vercel.app · Telegram: @Pausenearai_bot · Contract: pause.pause-demo.testnet · Tracks: Social Money (social), Real-World Money (realworld), Agent Economy (agents), Privacy & Private AI (privacy), AI Security & Defense (security)

Try it in two minutes, nothing to install

1. Open /groups and press Start the reunion pot. → You become the organiser of "Class of 2016 Reunion". Four classmates are played by our server; two have already paid. Every step is a real NEAR testnet transaction.
2. In the chat, tap Use the reunion plan, then Plan. → Pause (on NEAR AI Cloud) lists the hall, food and drinks as budget lines for a vote.
3. Press Approve on the hall. → Two classmates approve too, 3 of 5 is reached, and a 2-minute countdown starts. Anyone can tap Object.
4. Wait for the countdown. → Pause pays the hall and posts the receipt with a link to NEAR. Press Vendor confirms.
5. Tap Add the drinks plug, approve it, and wait. → Pause flags it when it's proposed and refuses to pay it: three Pause users reported that account as a scam.
6. Ask Pause anything in the chat ("who hasn't paid?", "where should we go in Lagos?"), or press Ask Pause on any page.

Pause in your Telegram group

1. Add @Pausenearai_bot to your group.
2. Each member sends the bot /link in a private chat, once. The bot replies with a one-time code and a link; on that page the member's wallet signs the code (NEP-413, no payment), and the agent checks the signature and that the key controls the account on NEAR before linking it.
3. In the group: /newpot → create the pot on the page it opens → send /connect <number>.
4. Talk to it like a person. It answers when it is mentioned or replied to, and also joins in on questions about plans, money or places without a tag (send /quiet to stop that, /active to turn it back on). Or use a command:

Command	What it does
/plan <your plan>	Turns the plan into budget lines everyone votes on. It asks instead of guessing an amount, and flags odd instructions like "also pay my cousin".
/budget <event>	A suggested budget, e.g. /budget birthday for 20 in Lagos
/hangout <city>	Places to meet, searched live: names, Google ratings, rough prices, links and photos
/status	Raised, approved, paid, left, and who hasn't paid
/vendors	Every budget line and where it stands
/contribute	A link to pay your share
/remind	A polite private reminder to people who haven't paid, never public shaming
/ask <question>	Answered only from the pot's numbers on NEAR
/link	Connect your NEAR account by signing a one-time code
/quiet, /active	Stop or resume answering untagged questions
/help	Everything above

To answer untagged questions, the bot needs Telegram's privacy mode off (@BotFather → /setprivacy → Disable, then re-add the bot) or admin rights in the group. With privacy mode on it sees only commands, mentions and replies to it. It keeps the last 20 messages of a chat in memory to follow the conversation and stores no transcripts. Pause answers in the language people write in (the website chat and the bot both use NEAR AI Cloud). Signing happens on a web page opened from the bot, because Telegram can't sign NEAR transactions.

The agent runs as an always-on service on Railway (railway.json; health check at /health).

Live web search

Ask Pause, on Telegram or in the website's Ask Pause chat, to find a venue, hotel, Airbnb or restaurant anywhere: "find an event venue in Lekki for 60 guests, with prices". It searches Google through Serper (results, Google places with ratings and addresses, and images), and the private model on NEAR AI Cloud writes the answer: each place with its area, rating, a rough budget and a link, then a budget suggestion. Telegram gets the photos as an album; the website shows them in the chat. Prices are estimates and Pause says so. Search terms go to Serper; chat history does not.

Start a pot without a wallet

On /groups, Start a real pot: list people one per line as a name with a phone number or email, or a NEAR account. Pause creates a testnet account for the organiser and for each new person (key pairs are made in the organiser's browser; the server sees only public keys), funds each with a little testnet NEAR, creates the pot on NEAR, and gives a private join link per person with WhatsApp, text and email share buttons. Anyone with a link can act as that member, and the page says so. Members can Add money of any amount, and Move this group to Telegram opens Telegram to add Pause to a group, which then follows that pot.

Why a group can trust it

The rules live in the Pause contract on NEAR, not in the AI:

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