> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.introw.io/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Run a submission approval workflow > Set up an approval gate with steps and AI validation, notify the right people, and review every submission to a clear outcome. > For partner ops and partner managers who need every submission reviewed, signed off by the right people, and answered. Some submissions cannot be accepted on the spot - they need sign-off, the right people alerted, and the partner told what happened. This guide builds that whole loop: an approval gate with ordered steps, optional AI that clears the routine cases, notifications to your team and the partner, and the day-to-day review where you accept, decline, return, or reopen each submission. The result is consistent, auditable handling instead of submissions waiting on whoever happens to notice them. ## What you'll achieve A form where every submission routes through the approvers you choose, AI optionally handles confident cases on its own, your team is alerted on submit, and partners receive a clear outcome - all reviewed from one **Submissions** inbox. Nothing stalls unseen and nothing is rubber-stamped. ## Before you start You need access to the **Submissions** inbox and write access to the form you configure. Decide who must approve (specific team members, partner team roles, or anyone) and who should be alerted when a submission arrives. ## Steps ### Set up the approval gate Go to [Forms](https://app.introw.io/forms), open the form, and on the **Automation** tab select **Approval Gate**. Turn on **Enable Approval Gate** so submissions are held as pending until they are approved, rather than accepted automatically. Use a gate whenever a submission needs a human (or AI) decision before it counts. Under **Approval steps**, choose **Add approval step** for each level of sign-off. Steps run in order: each must approve before the next is asked, which is how you model a two-stage review (for example a reviewer then a manager). For each step: * Name the step so approvers understand its purpose. * Pick the approvers - specific team members, a partner team role, or **Anyone** in your organisation. If you add no steps at all, any team member can approve, so add steps when you need specific sign-off. Set the **Accept** and **Decline** messages partners receive, so each outcome guides them on what happens next instead of being a bare status change. You can still edit these per submission at review time. ### Let AI clear the routine cases (optional) In the **Introw AI Agent** section of the gate, turn on **Enable Introw AI validation** to have AI review each submission against your rules before it reaches a person. This is what collapses approval time on high-volume, rule-based forms. Enter the policy the AI should apply - what to accept, decline, or return. Use **Generate with AI** to draft instructions from the form's fields, then refine them to your risk tolerance and must-have criteria (for example, decline submissions missing timeline details, return ones without target-account fit). Turn on **Allow Introw AI to execute confident decisions autonomously** to let AI act on its own, and set the threshold between **More cautious** and **More autonomous**. AI only auto-executes when its confidence clears the threshold; everything less certain still routes to a human. Start cautious, watch the results, then loosen it as you build trust. ### Notify the right people Still on the **Automation** tab, open **Inform partner team**. Turn on **To all partner team members** to email the partner's team on submit, and use the fallback section (**Add partnership manager fallback**) so an alert still goes out when no team member can be determined. Add anyone else who should know with **Add recipient**. This is what keeps response time short - a submission no one is told about waits. Partner emails for outcomes are managed centrally. Go to [Notification settings](https://app.introw.io/settings/notifications) and, under the **Submissions** group, confirm **Form submission accepted**, **Form submission declined**, and **Form submission returned** are on, so partners are automatically told when their submission is resolved. ### Review and resolve submissions Go to [Submissions](https://app.introw.io/submissions) to see incoming submissions with their status - **Pending**, **Accepted**, **Auto accepted**, **Declined**, or **Returned** - alongside the form, partner, and submitter. Open a pending submission to see its full detail and act: * **Accept** - approve it; the partner is notified and any CRM automations run. * **Decline** - reject it with your decline message. * **Return** - send it back asking for more information; the partner can edit and resubmit. * **Reopen** - bring a declined submission back into review if something changes. Add a note so the partner understands the outcome. Where an approval gate has multiple steps, the submission advances only as each approver signs off. ## Verify it worked Submit a test: it arrives as **Pending** (or **Auto accepted** if AI cleared it), your team receives the on-submit alert, and stepping it through approval changes its status. When you accept, decline, or return it, the partner receives the matching email and the inbox reflects the new status. Returned submissions reappear once the partner resubmits. ## Related Review by the columns you care about. Create the form this workflow reviews. Full configuration options.