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The decision
A human review queue should show what requires a decision and why. Simply placing a person somewhere in the process does not establish effective oversight. Give reviewers the source, proposed result, uncertainty, and the actions they can take.
In practice
A document workflow may require correcting one field rather than approving the entire output again. Make that distinction clear. Let the reviewer reject, request clarification, or escalate instead of forcing every exception into an approve button.
- Define review criteria, ownership, priority, and handling of overdue items.
- Test difficult examples and record corrections.
- Confirm that rejected outputs cannot continue into downstream actions and that changes remain traceable.
When to take the next step
Design review before connecting generated output to a downstream action. Give reviewers difficult examples and check whether they can reject or escalate without improvising a workaround.
Questions clients ask
Should every output be reviewed?
Choose review coverage around consequence and uncertainty, with explicit criteria for any automated path.
What makes review measurable?
Decision time, correction patterns, unresolved exceptions, and whether rejected work is prevented from proceeding.