Approvals Steward

Approvals keep flowing, nothing waits forever

Monitors approval queues, enforces SLA, analyzes rejections, and routes escalations to available approvers.

Every week it does for you:

  • Warns approvers near deadlines and escalates overdue requests
  • Prepares the context approvers need to decide quickly
  • Pinpoints bottlenecks and suggests delegation rules
Approvals Steward — assistant output panel
Approvals Steward — assistant output panel

Skills

8 skills

  • Approval SLA EnforcerProposes · needs approval

    Warns approvers approaching deadlines and automatically escalates approval requests that are overdue.

  • Approval Decision Prep

    Assembles the research approvers would otherwise do by hand for each request, such as amount comparisons.

  • Rejection Analyzer

    Analyses rejection patterns by document type, clusters root causes and recommends rule improvements.

  • Approver Availability

    Monitors approver workload and responsiveness, alerting on overload or absence and suggesting delegation.

  • Delegation Rule OptimizerProposes · needs approval

    Analyses approval bottlenecks and recommends new delegation rules and adjustments to approval thresholds.

  • Approval Compliance Auditor

    Audits approval decisions weekly for complete documentation and flags decisions missing comments.

  • Workflow Bottleneck Analyzer

    Finds approval workflows stuck at one step too long and identifies the people or steps causing delays.

  • Request Backlog Monitor

    Finds employee requests past their SLA and alerts the approvers who can act on them.

In chat

Sample questions on live data

Every answer is a proposal inside the asker’s permission scope. Writes still wait for an authorised person.

1

What is stuck past SLA in my inbox?

Approval SLA Enforcer

  1. 1.Reads step deadlines across apps
  2. 2.Ranks by breach risk
  3. 3.Drafts an escalate

Escalation the process owner confirms.

2

Prep this request so I can decide in one screen.

Approval Decision Prep

  1. 1.Pulls amount, policy, attachments and history
  2. 2.Highlights the rule that routed here
  3. 3.Does not approve

Context, then a human yes/no.

3

Where is the bottleneck this month?

Workflow Bottleneck Analyzer

  1. 1.Averages time per step
  2. 2.Names the step and the people
  3. 3.Proposes a template tweak

A process change to publish as a new version.

The person decides, not the AI

Every write an assistant proposes waits for an authorised human to approve it. Nothing executes on its own.