Design the human-in-the-loop approval gate
Lesson 2 of 5 · Workflows & automation
1 · Learn the move · Constraints + negative instructions
Mark every step where a human must approve before it fires. Anything an owner reads, anything that names a number, and anything that commits money never sends unreviewed. In a Cowork routine that means the skill stops and waits for your yes. The gate is the difference between leverage and an offer you didn't mean to make.
You are a workflow designer. Take my owner-outreach workflow and add a human approval gate: AI may draft, but nothing sends until I approve. List exactly which steps must never auto-send and why. [workflow]
2 · Your turn. You write the prompt
Your AI-drafted replies to owners could go straight out unread. Write a prompt that inserts an approval checkpoint so nothing reaches a property owner until you've seen it.
Remember: the AI sees only your prompt, not this page. If the situation isn't in your prompt, it doesn't exist.
Optional. These shape the output when you run your prompt below, not your score.