Editorial Approval Gate Worker
Approval & Governance Stage · Editorial approval gate Output · Approval gate review

Check whether the work is ready for human approval.

Approval should not be a feeling. Before content moves forward, the editor needs to know whether the key checks are clean, whether blockers remain, and whether anything still needs revision, evidence or specialist review. Dana reads the existing worker outputs and produces a conservative approval gate. She does not approve automatically. She tells the human reviewer whether the content appears ready for review, needs revision, or is blocked.

For final editorial checks, approval workflows, CMS handoff preparation and content governance.

works alongside Helen Sam Riley
Where approval workflows go wrong

Content moves forward because everyone assumes someone else checked it.

A page may have good copy, but still contain unresolved evidence gaps, accessibility issues, metadata problems, trust concerns, CMS handoff blockers or editorial risk. If those issues are scattered across worker outputs, they are easy to miss. Dana brings the final review state into one gate.

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Loose approval

The draft looks ready, but evidence, metadata and accessibility checks still contain unresolved items.

Unresolved blockersNo final gateScattered risksApproval unclear
the editor has to hunt for problems
Gate reviewed

Dana summarises readiness, blockers and next actions before the human editor approves.

Conservative gateClear statusPrioritised blockersHuman decision
approval becomes safer
How this Worker helps

A conservative final gate before content moves forward.

Dana reviews already-computed worker outputs and determines whether the content appears ready for human editorial review. She does not certify compliance, publish content, or approve automatically.

Checks

What it checks

  • Approval report state
  • Editorial risk and claims issues
  • Evidence gaps
  • Accessibility status
  • SEO metadata and SERP snippet readiness
  • Schema and trust signals
  • CMS handoff blockers
  • Draft quality and review status
Improves

What it improves

  • Approval confidence
  • Editorial governance
  • Visibility of blockers
  • Readiness before handoff or publishing workflow
Prepares

What it prepares

  • Approval gate decision
  • Readiness score
  • Blocker list
  • Prioritised recommendations
Surfaces

For human review

  • Hard blockers
  • Revision items
  • Missing review evidence
  • Reasons content should not move forward yet
On the desk

What Dana works from, and what she produces.

WORKS FROM
01 Review summary
02 Review queue
03 Evidence gap review
04 Editorial risk findings
05 Accessibility, metadata, schema and trust outputs
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PRODUCES
Approval gate review
Gate decision
Readiness score
Blocker list
Prioritised recommendations
When to bring Dana in

Specific moments where this Worker helps.

01

A page is close to final approval.

Dana checks whether unresolved worker findings still block progress.

02

Multiple review workers have run.

She combines the state into one clear readiness gate.

03

A draft is moving towards CMS handoff.

Dana flags blockers before handoff creates operational risk.

04

The editor needs a conservative decision point.

She gives approved-for-review only when the checks are clean enough.

05

Governance matters.

Dana keeps risk, evidence and accessibility issues visible before sign-off.

06

A page should not move forward yet.

She explains why and lists the highest-priority actions.

Human approval & boundaries

Dana gates readiness. Humans approve.

Dana does not approve content automatically, certify compliance, publish, or write to a CMS. Her job is to make the approval state visible so a human reviewer can decide.

Dana gates readiness, she never approves content herself.
Compliance (legal, medical, financial, accessibility) is never certified by Dana.
Blockers are always surfaced, never hidden to make content look ready.
The gate decision is conservative — unclear or unresolved items default to needing revision.
Editorial Approval Gate Worker

Make readiness explicit before approval.

Dana helps editors see whether content is ready for human approval, needs revision, or should be blocked before handoff.

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