Continuum adds human-approval checkpoints inside automated workflows

What changed

• Workflow steps can be marked as requiring approval, which pauses execution and notifies a named person or role by email and in-app.
• State is preserved while paused, so a workflow that waits three days for a signature resumes without re-running earlier steps.
• Approval history is now attached to the workflow run for audit purposes, including who approved what and when.

Who it helps

The practical problem it solves

Full automation feels risky for actions that are hard to undo, so teams either automate nothing or build fragile custom approval glue. Built-in pause-for-approval steps let teams automate the routine parts of a process while keeping a real person in the loop for the parts that matter.

Ways to try it

• Auto-draft a refund but require finance sign-off before it actually issues.
• Let a workflow wait days for a customer's signature without losing its place.
• Pull the built-in approval history straight into a compliance review instead of reconstructing it by hand.

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