Agents with Approvals
Build an agent with approval checkpoints
Part of The Ascent, a track in Alpine Academy for operations leads and power users.
Program pricing starts from $299 per participant.
Classes are run for teams. Book a call, or send this to your manager.
About this class
Agents are only useful if you can trust them with real work.Design an agent for a process your team runs every week.Decide what it may do alone, what needs approval and what it must never touch.Then run it with checkpoints, and a log that shows exactly what happened.
What you'll learn
- 01Break a real process into steps an agent can carry out
- 02Set a permission level for every step: automatic, approval or blocked
- 03Write approval requests a busy manager can decide in seconds
- 04Log every action so anyone can see what the agent did and why
- 05Know when to widen an agent's autonomy, and when to pull it back
Choose your role
Example: what a Finance learner does in class
- An agent that prepares the payment run summary, with a controller approving before anything is released.
- Give each step of the payment run a level of automatic, approval or blocked, with release of funds always blocked.
Choose your role above to see examples for your own work.
Try it yourself
Walk through a sample agent run for a month-end payment, and see which steps the agent does alone, which wait for approval and which are blocked.
What you'll build
- A working agent with approval checkpoints
- Permission map for every step
- Audit log and review routine
Prerequisites
Time commitment
2 sessions · 2 hours
Available self-paced, in person or live online.
Who teaches it
Live classes are taught by Andrew Phillips or a qualified Alpine coach. Andrew is the founder of Alpine Systems, with twenty years building revenue systems, and builds with AI every day.
You leave The Ascent with
- A triage flow running on your own queue
- An agent with approval checkpointsThis class
- An AI governance playbook
Need sign-off?
Send your manager a short note about this class. It covers the time, what you will build and the price.
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