Your approvals live in email, and it's costing you days

An approval that should take minutes takes three days, because it's traveling through inboxes, Slack threads, and one person's memory of who needs to look at it next.

Every handoff is a delay and a risk

Manual approval routing is one of the most quietly expensive things an operations team does. Each handoff is a place where the request stalls, lands on the wrong person, or stops with someone who is on vacation. A workflow with four handoffs gives you four chances for an error and four reasons something sat untouched over the weekend.

The symptoms are familiar

• "Did anyone approve this?" asked over and over
• Requests forwarded to whoever someone guesses should see them
• No deadline, no reminder, no way to see what's stuck
• The same approval rules applied differently every time
• An audit that means reconstructing a decision from a search of old emails

If your sign-off process depends on someone remembering to forward the email, it isn't a process.

Routing that knows your rules

Approvals should move themselves — to the right person, with full context, a deadline, and a clear record of who decided what and when. The trick is that the routing has to match your real rules, including the exceptions that don't fit a generic template. APLINO captures that logic in a Blueprint, ships an MVP your team is approving real work through within weeks, and keeps engineering alongside you as the process evolves.