Daniel responds within minutes. He asks one question before anything else: What specifically appeals about this? Not the dynamic generally — the spending threshold specifically.

You sit with that for a moment. It's a better question than you expected.

What you write back is something you haven't said out loud before: every financial decision you make at work carries weight. Responsibility, judgment, consequence. The idea of having one domain where the decision isn't yours — where you ask and someone else holds the answer — feels like setting something heavy down.

Daniel reads it. Then: That's a clean articulation. $50 threshold to start. Anything above it, you ask me first. I say yes or no. You abide by it. Starting now.

You look at your phone. The threshold is live.

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