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✅ Approval Routing Workflow with AI

An AI agent routes each request to the right approver, chases reminders until a decision lands, and records the outcome automatically, so approvals move without manual chasing or lost threads.

  • Event-triggered
  • 100+ integrations
  • Branching logic
  • Schedule + monitor
UNIT · TASKADE.FLOW3 STEPS

How this flow runs

When

Every Week

Schedule

Then 1

Agent

Approvals Reviewer

Ask Agent · Taskade AI

Knows
your approval thresholds and owners
Remembers
every request it has decided

Then 2

Add Task

Taskade

This agent carries its knowledge and memory between runs, and can call your other automations as its own tools. How custom agents work

Build this flow with AI

Opens the builder with these steps already described. Free to start, no card.

What Can You Do With This Automation?

Replace approval bottlenecks with an agent that knows who decides and follows through:

  • Smart routing: The agent reads each request and sends it to the correct approver based on type, amount, or department, no static routing table required.

  • Automatic reminders: It chases pending approvers on a schedule so requests never stall in someone's queue.

  • Decision recording: Every approval or rejection is logged with a clear audit trail your team can trust.

  • Connected follow-through: Once a decision lands, it triggers the next step across 100+ integrations, from notifying the requester to kicking off the work.

Use Cases For Approval Routing Workflow

  • Route purchase requests to the right budget owner and escalate by amount.

  • Manage time-off or expense approvals with automatic reminders and a logged decision.

  • Send marketing assets or contracts to the correct reviewer before they go live.

  • Run multi-stage approvals where each green light routes the request to the next approver.

How To Use This Automation

  • Go to the "Automations" tab in your workspace.

  • Click ➕Add automation ➡ choose a template or start from scratch.

  • Click "➕Add Trigger" and define the conditions.

  • Click "➕Add Action" and define the conditions.

  • Enable the toggle in the top-right corner to activate the automation.

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