It is risky if Velros AI sends the wrong thing to a customer. So the heart of automation is not speed, it is designing the approval rules that decide where a person checks.
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Put a person in front of every action and nothing has been handed over. Approval stands in front of what cannot be undone. A wrong delivery update is fixed by sending another one. A refund that has left does not come back.
Reversible work with a clear rule runs. Work where an amount, a term or a tone is at stake is drafted and passed to a person. Work that is hard to undo, or likely to be disputed, is not attempted at all and goes straight across. When it is ambiguous, stopping is the default.
Under GDPR Article 22 an individual has the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing that significantly affects them, and where such a decision is allowed the controller must offer human intervention. The United States has no general federal equivalent, but Colorado and California each grant a right to human review of automated decisions in consequential matters from January 2027. The approval boundary is a legal line before it is a preference.
GDPR Article 22 (2018); Colorado SB 26-189 and California's CPPA ADMT rules, both effective 1 January 2027
One line on what is about to happen, the evidence it was decided from, a flag on what is at stake, and four choices: approve, reject, ask for a change, hand to someone else. Everything else comes out. If the approver has to reopen the original thread, that is not an approval, it is an investigation.
Which draft a person corrected and how, what they refused and why: keep that and the same situation asks less next time. Approval is not one act of defence. It is how the standard gets written.
Hand over the reversible work, let the record build, then open the next square. Money, contracts, personal data and anything leaving the company stay behind longest. What justifies widening is the error rate of the last four weeks, not confidence.
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