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Why every AI agent needs a human approval step
Autonomy without oversight is a liability. Here is how approvals let agents move fast without breaking things.
Lena Hart
The most common question we hear from teams evaluating agents is simple: what happens when it gets something wrong? The honest answer is that every system makes mistakes. The difference is whether a human sees them before or after they reach a customer.
Approvals are a feature, not a limitation
In Nodal, you decide which actions need a human. Refunds over a threshold, outbound emails to enterprise accounts or changes to production systems can all pause for review. The agent prepares everything, explains its reasoning and waits.
Trust compounds
Teams typically start with approvals on almost everything. Within weeks, as the agent proves itself, they relax the rules. Autonomy becomes something the agent earns.
