What an AI approval workflow is
An AI approval workflow is a concrete implementation of human-in-the-loop. When an AI produces an output that needs sign-off, the workflow holds it, notifies a reviewer, and waits for an approve or reject decision before continuing. Approved outputs proceed; rejected ones are stopped or sent back for revision.
It gives you a clear control point and an audit trail: who approved what, when, and why, which matters for anything customer-facing, financial, or regulated.
How to build one on an automation
After the AI step, send the output to a monitoring tool with a callback URL. The tool pauses, posts the output to a dashboard or Slack for review, and when a person decides, sends the decision back so the automation resumes accordingly. Routine, low-risk outputs can be auto-approved by rules so only the cases that need judgment reach a human.
Because automations time out, approvals are handled asynchronously via the callback rather than by holding the original request open.
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