Executive & Admin
Approval Chaser Agent
Assist-only · Starter · High severity
Works with: Outlook, Teams, Power Automate approvals, D365/BC (sources)
The problem
Work stalls waiting for a yes: quotes over threshold, POs, discounts, PTO, expense reports. The approvals are scattered across email, Teams, and system queues; the requester doesn't know who's sitting on it, and the approver forgot it exists.
What the agent does
- Trigger: daily scan of pending approvals across configured sources (Power Automate approvals, D365 quote/discount approvals, BC PO approvals, flagged email requests).
- Ranks by age, business impact (value, customer waiting), and deadline.
- Nudges each approver privately with a one-line summary + direct link — everything needed to decide without hunting.
- Escalates items past threshold to the approver's manager or the owner; posts a weekly "approval friction" summary (average wait by type).
You need this if
- "Waiting on approval" is a common status
- Approvers are bottlenecks without realizing it
- Approval paths exist in several systems with no unified view
Who uses it
Everyone requesting; approvers; owner (friction visibility).
What goes in, what comes out
In: pending approvals across systems. Out: ranked nudges, escalations, friction metrics.
Why it pays
Cycle-time compression across everything: quotes go out faster, POs unblock jobs sooner, employees stop resenting silence. Cheap to build, universally applicable.
Built to be trusted
- Never approves anything, ever — accelerates humans only
- Private nudges; public visibility only in aggregate metrics
- Runs entirely in your Microsoft tenant — first-party connectors, DLP-enforced, your permissions model.
Want this running in your tenant?
The full implementation spec — trigger design, connectors, licensing plan, and governance setup — is what we bring to the scoping call.