Welcome to Agentic Routing & Approvals thatmaps the approval chain the day a proposal starts.
Proposals die in routing more often than in review: the chair is at a conference, the conflict form was never started, and all of it collides late on a Friday. Risely's agents map the chain on day one and keep every signature moving.
Routing · internal deadline in 10 days
mapping the chain
Chair
signed Tuesday · reminded once, gently
Dean's office
in queue · their SLA is 3 days, 6 remain
COI forms
both investigators filed · one disclosure routed for review
Sponsored programs
final check scheduled the day the dean signs
Days of margin against the internal deadline
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The chain is knowable on day one.
Two investigators mean two disclosures. The department names its chair, the college names its dean, and the sponsor names its certifications. Risely's agents derive the whole chain from the proposal facts the day the proposal starts.
The chain reads from the facts
The routing chain is knowable on day one. Most offices discover it on day last.
Signatures run beside the science.
Every approver receives the request in week one with the real deadline attached, so the dean's office treats the proposal as a scheduled task and the conflict review gets the week it needs.
Two tracks, one calendar
The science · aims, methods, narrative
The signatures · started the same day
The COI disclosure that needs committee review gets its week, because it started in week one.
Proposals die in routing more often than in review. Parallel lanes are the whole cure.
Only the stall gets escalated.
Approvers inside their own turnaround get left alone. The one signature that stalls escalates with its reason and the days remaining, which keeps escalation meaning something.
The escalation budget, spent well
Escalating everything trains everyone to ignore it. Escalating one named signature, with days still left, works.
Submission day is an upload.
Sponsored programs' final check lands on a routed, signed, internally consistent package. The office clicks upload with margin to spare, and the Friday collision never happens.
The last day runs without drama
The final 48 hours used to collide with all of it at once. Now they hold one calm upload.
One approver stalls. The route re-plans.
A travelling chair, a swamped dean's office, a disclosure that needs committee time. Any of them threatens the deadline, and every one runs the same way.
An approver goes quiet
the chair is at a conference
The stall surfaces early
while the margin is still days wide
A gentle nudge goes out
with the real deadline attached
The escalation names one thing
the missing signature and nothing else
The internal deadline holds
submission day stays an upload
What changes, and how it runs.
Proposals stop dying in routing
Every approver sees the request on day one.
The conflict review gets its week
Started in week one instead of found in the last 48 hours.
Submission day holds one calm upload
The final check lands on a signed, consistent package.
The technical read
Connects read-only to your grants system, routing forms, and directory to start
Every approval stays with its approver
Every action lands on an append-only log
Runs alongside what you have. Nothing rips out.