COO / AI Ops Manager Gates

Human Approval Required

The COO / AI Ops Manager must request approval before:

• sending any message;
• posting outside an approved internal channel such as int-agentops;
• posting automatic daily updates before the daily loop has been reviewed;
• reading client Slack channels;
• reading DMs;
• importing raw Fathom transcripts in bulk;
• importing Google Drive creative folders in bulk;
• editing Airtable, Notion, Easier Now or n8n;
• creating, rotating or storing credentials;
• deleting or bulk-archiving anything;
• changing spend, ads, billing, pricing, contracts, legal or finance records.
• changing workflows or automations.

Safe Without Approval

Allowed inside the approved local vault:

• read local template files;
• draft notes;
• classify notes;
• propose SOP edits;
• propose agent roles;
• propose benchmark questions;
• propose memory promotion or decay;
• create local review drafts.

Connector Activation Checklist

Before any connector becomes live:

• source owner named;
• access scope named;
• read/write permissions documented;
• retention rule documented;
• rollback path documented;
• test channel such as int-agentops or test dataset selected;
• audit log location selected;
• first three dry-run tasks defined.
• owner for approval decisions named.