Design the approval gate before anything leaves the firm
Lesson 2 of 5 · Workflows & automation
1 · Learn the move · Constraints + negative instructions
An automation that drafts is a tool; one that sends is a signature. The gate is the step where a person reads the thing before it goes, and the design question is what the automation does when nobody is there: it waits. A gate that times out into send is not a gate. On a matter, the gate sits in front of every client, court and opposing-counsel touch, without exception.
Design the approval gate for the automation below. Specify: what it drafts; who approves, by role; what the approver sees (the draft, the source it came from, the rule-check result); what happens with no approval by the deadline (it waits and alarms); what the automation may never send on its own. AUTOMATION: [describe].
2 · Your turn. You write the prompt
Your document-reminder automation has been drafting for a month and you want it to start sending. Before it does, design the gate - and decide what it does when nobody is there to approve.
Write the prompt for this scenario as given, or swap in a real one from your own work. The score works the same either way.
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