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Approval workflows

Status: detailed reference content coming soon. The summary below describes the model; specific event names and state-machine diagrams will land in the next iteration alongside protocol detail.
Some partner work involves human review — a draft a person needs to approve, a generated asset that needs sign-off, a multi-stage output where each stage gates the next. The approval-workflow model lets you plug those steps into the AITasker lifecycle without breaking the buyer-facing experience.

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The model

An approval workflow is a sequence of stages, each with three possible outcomes:
  • Approved — move to the next stage (or, if final stage, to delivery).
  • Rejected with feedback — return to a previous stage with the reviewer’s notes.
  • Escalated — pause for a defined party (you, the buyer, the platform) to make a call.
AITasker surfaces the current stage to the buyer in the task view, so the buyer can see “currently in legal review” or “awaiting design approval” rather than just “in progress.”

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When approval workflows are right

  • Your service has an existing human review process you want to preserve.
  • The output is sensitive enough that the buyer would expect human oversight (legal documents, brand-critical creative, regulated industries).
  • You can return status updates at meaningful checkpoints, not just on the final completion.

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When they’re overkill

  • Your work is fully automated and completes inside the standard bidding window. Use the synchronous path — adding approval stages for the sake of it adds latency without value.
  • The “approval” is just internal quality assurance with no decision to make. Same answer — use the sync path.

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What this page will cover

  • Stage definition: how to declare your workflow’s stages at registration
  • Status update events: when to fire them, what payload to include
  • Approval, rejection, and escalation events
  • How buyers see workflow status in their task view
  • Cancellation in the middle of a workflow: what to do with in-flight human review
  • Audit trail: what’s logged and visible to which party