An example prompt for an approval workflow app

Build a purchase request approval tool for a 200-person company. It needs: tenants, members and invitations, role matrix, policy-driven approval chain, maker-checker separation, append-only audit trail and in-app and email notifications. Rule that must always hold: store amount bands and ordered steps as rows and select the chain with a pure function. Leave out for now: no approval rules in code: policies are tenant data and no ERP connectors or chat bots in phase 1.

Replace the first sentence with your own idea. The list of needs stays useful whatever the niche, because it comes from what an approval workflow app has to do.

• Build an expense approval portal with limits by manager level. Start with tenants, members and invitations and role matrix, and add policy-driven approval chain once those work.
• Build an access request tracker for an IT team. People should be able to nobody may approve a request they raised; decisions record who, when and why.

Forge AI picks a reference architecture from how you describe the app. These phrases point to an approval workflow app: approval workflow, approvals saas, purchase requests, purchase request approval, approval chain, approval policy, expense approval and spend approval.

• Approval chains come from tenant policy rows.
• Separation of duties enforced in the database.
• Escalation by a claimed job, not timers.

This is a reference design for the category, not a promise that every item is generated today. Built-ins such as background jobs, file uploads and search are rolling out; email sent from your app is coming soon, so anything here that needs it is something you add yourself for now.

• ERP and chat integrations: each connector needs OAuth review and per-provider limits.
• Read replicas for dashboards: primary handles phase-1 load.

How detailed should a prompt for an approval workflow app be?

Name the users, the main objects, one rule that must always hold and one thing to leave out. The plan fills in the rest, and you can change it before generation.

Which words tell Forge64 this is an approval workflow app?

Phrases such as approval workflow, approvals saas, purchase requests and purchase request approval point to this category.

Can I change the app after the first build?

Yes. Describe the change in plain English and Forge AI edits the app; the quality gate checks the code again.

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