Business operations concept · updated August 9, 2026
Pre-Approval
Pre-approval is an agreed rule that lets specific, bounded decisions proceed without individual sign-off because the conditions were approved in advance.
Example
A manager pre-approves any expense under $200 for a specific category, so a team member doesn't have to wait for sign-off on routine purchases within that range.
Why it matters
Removing approval steps for low-risk, well-understood decisions frees up review capacity for the decisions that genuinely need judgment.
Limits and cautions
Pre-approval rules need periodic review. A boundary set once can become outdated as costs, risk, or context change.
Relevance to Stelaah
Stelaah's approval workflows can encode a pre-approved boundary so routine requests within it skip the manual review step.
This connection describes product intent, not a guarantee that every plan or workflow supports every related capability.