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| Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|
| Users, automatically | 
Jul 31, 2025 |
Mar 2026 |
Business value
Intelligent approvals transform how organizations manage routine approvals by reducing turnaround times from days or even weeks to just minutes. This acceleration helps businesses stay on schedule, reduce delays, capture early payment discounts, and avoid costly late fees. By automating repetitive decisions, teams reclaim valuable time to focus on strategic, high-impact work. The feature also enhances accuracy in approvals, minimizing costly errors and financial risk, while delivering clear, audit-ready rationales that streamline compliance and regulatory reviews.
Feature details
Intelligent approvals is an AI-powered stage in advanced approvals action flows. With this capability, makers don't need to route every approval to a human. Instead, they configure an AI stage where a large language model evaluates the request using natural language prompts and contextual variables, such as text, documents, and images. The AI uses the defined logic to decide whether to approve or reject the request. Makers keep full control and decide if approvals are automatic or if humans can veto them.
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Language availability
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