Approval gating deliberately trades autonomy for control, on the reasoning that the cost of an unwanted action in someone's CRM or inbox is far higher than the cost of one click. In SynthBoard, a write to a connected tool is a preview you confirm, on Pro and above.
Glossary
Approval-Gated Actions
It drafts. You confirm.
In short
A governance pattern in which an AI system may propose and prepare an action in a connected tool — draft the email, open the ticket, schedule the review — but cannot execute it until a human explicitly approves. The gate is what makes agentic capability safe to adopt in a business context: every action carries provenance (which decision produced it) and an audit record.
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The product, not the theory.
In your tools.
A tool is only read until you allow writing, and every write is a preview you confirm. Writes are on Pro and above.
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