# Bounding it — Licence to Operate decks

> Stop asking whether the agent may do a thing and start asking how much. The band, the limit, the refusal — and where the check sits, which decides what you are actually buying.

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# Bounding it

Stop asking whether the agent may do a thing and start asking how much. The band, the limit, the refusal — and where the check sits, which decides what you are actually buying.

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## What this deck is doing

| **The problem it starts from** | The delta is enormous and I cannot close all of it |
|---|---|
| **What it answers** | Bound the parts that matter: bands, limits, refusals |
| **Vocabulary it introduces** | the band · the limit · the refusal |
| **Who it is for** | somebody who has seen the delta, tried to close it, and found that some of it is load-bearing |
| **Roughly** | 15 minutes |
| **Where it deliberately stops** | pools, draws, acceptors, budgets, price — a bound needs none of them |

It ends on the question it does not answer — **“Refusing stops work. Who says yes when somebody needs more?”** — which is where [Who says yes](acceptor.md) picks up.

## Notes on this deck

Nothing has been written here yet. This section is the reason each deck has a page of its own: room for what the slides cannot carry — where the argument came from, what changed since, what an audience pushed back on, and any recording that narrates it.

## On video

The author recorded a series on this vault. No short has been mapped to this deck yet; until one is, [the seven shorts](../videos/index.md) are the narrated material.

[← The map](map.md) · [All Licence to Operate decks](index.md) · [Who says yes →](acceptor.md)


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