An AI agent that asks before it acts
OperatorNest is an AI agent with human approval built into every task. It works on its own until it reaches a step that would change something in the outside world, then it stops and asks you. Research, reading, comparing and drafting happen in the background. Sending, paying, booking, deleting and posting wait for you.
You get the research and the drafts done for you, and you keep the final say on anything that leaves your operator’s workspace.
What an approval looks like
When your operator needs a decision, you get one short message in the place you asked from. It says what will happen, why, and what it prepared. For example:
Send 3 follow-up emails to Acme, Brackenwold Studio and Thornquist Ventures? Drafts are written in your tone. Nothing has been sent yet.
You can approve it as is, open it and edit the drafts, or put it on hold. If you edit, your operator learns from the change for next time.
Set the default for each action
Reading and drafting can continue without a card. An action that sends, books, spends, deletes or publishes waits, with the proposed change and its details in the card. Use the AI agent approval policy builder to write down the boundaries for your own tasks.
| Action type | Default | What the approval card shows |
|---|---|---|
| Read or search | Continue | No approval card; the sources checked appear in the task receipt. |
| Draft | Continue | No approval card; the draft is ready for you to review. |
| Send a message | Wait for approval | Recipient, exact message, reason for sending, and Approve, Edit or Hold. |
| Book or schedule with others | Wait for approval | People involved, date and time, booking details, and Approve, Edit or Hold. |
| Pay or purchase | Wait for approval | Item, seller, amount and payment details, with Approve, Edit or Hold. |
| Delete | Wait for approval | The file or record affected, what will be removed, and Approve, Edit or Hold. |
| Publish | Wait for approval | Exact content, destination, audience and reason, with Approve, Edit or Hold. |
Actions that always wait for you
Out of the box, your operator asks before it:
- sends an email, message or invite in your name
- pays for anything, or enters card details
- books travel, tables or appointments
- deletes, archives or overwrites files and records
- publishes or posts anything publicly
- accepts terms, contracts or meeting invitations
Everything else, like searching the web, reading documents you shared, comparing options, filling a spreadsheet or writing a draft, it does on its own and reports in the task’s receipt.
Set your own rules
Some approvals get repetitive. If you send the same invoice reminders every Monday, you can pre-approve that action for that task only. You can also go the other way and require approval for things that don’t normally need it, like any message to a specific client.
Rules are per task. Tightening a rule takes effect on the next step.
Approvals and always-on work
If a decision comes up at 2 a.m., your operator prepares everything, holds that one step, and moves on to the rest of the task. When you wake up, the decision is at the top of your morning brief. Nothing is sent or spent in the meantime.
Every decision is on the record
Each approval is stored in the task’s receipt: what was proposed, what you decided, when, and what ran afterwards. To check why an email went out or who approved a booking, open that task’s receipt.