# Liminal

- **Event:** [Claude Build Day](https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/claude-startups-build-day)
- **When:** Sat, Jun 13 at 9:00 AM – 10:00 PM (PDT)
- **Where:** San Francisco, CA
- **Team:** [Shruti](https://cerebralvalley.ai/u/LiminalShruti)
- **GitHub:** https://github.com/liminalshruti/liminal-govern
- **Website:** https://liminal-govern-cockpit.vercel.app
- **Demo video:** https://drive.google.com/file/d/14uzy0KED-uJZSkYtRDZZY_n_5wo8OscK/view?usp=drive_link, https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ypO235PxoyjLNehm0-cTJz8qHaoqBGNd/view?usp=sharing
- **Gallery:** https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/claude-startups-build-day/hackathon/gallery
- **Page:** https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/claude-startups-build-day/hackathon/gallery/116

BTW My teammate Shayaun (Sean) Nejad (kuzushisec@gmail.com) was was waitlisted and got into the hack in-person today. 

Liminal is AI spend governance for founders and operators — the layer that keeps human judgment in command while AI agents accelerate execution. AI-native teams get handed frontier-model budgets and asked to prove ROI, but can't answer two questions: is this spend actually working, and can we govern it without surveilling our people? Liminal answers both. Eight bounded agents read a team's Opus 4.8 usage against its OKRs and disagree about what's waste; an adversarial reviewer then cross-checks every claim against the evidence and drops the ones that don't survive — it caught its own side's $162 "calendar" charge (PR-103 proved it was real product work), cutting a naive $446 estimate to a verified $284. Every finding is hash-linked to its source rows and anchored with a SHA-256 receipt; when an operator ratifies a policy, the decision enters an append-only provenance chain that corrections never overwrite. Governance without surveillance by construction — the subject is the agent fleet and the spend, never the person. We dogfooded it on our own $8,228 of Claude spend from building this.

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