Most of a workflow can run on its own. Fetch the data, process it, call the next API. But some steps need a person to look first: a large refund, a loan application, a deployment to production, an AI agent about to take an action you can’t undo.
Teams usually handle this outside the workflow. Someone gets a Slack message or an email, approves it somewhere else, and then another person restarts the process by hand. That works until the approver is on leave, the message gets buried, and the workflow sits there waiting with nobody noticing.
With Unmeshed, the approval is a step inside the workflow itself.
When the workflow reaches a step that needs a decision, it pauses and sends the request to the right person or team. They respond through a form, so the workflow gets a clear, structured answer and not a “looks fine” in a chat thread. Unmeshed checks that answer, and if it’s valid, the workflow picks up where it stopped and carries on to the next step. If the input is missing or wrong, it goes back for another try.
And if nobody responds in time, the task doesn’t just sit there. It can be escalated or reassigned to someone else, and your support or ops team can get an alert.
Every decision is recorded, so you always know who approved what and when. The approval stays part of the workflow’s history, not a message someone has to dig up later.
Explore the Human-in-the-Loop Approvals template here.
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