Why this matters

The safest automations stop one step short and ask you. You keep the speed and lose the fear.

The 20-minute experiment

1. 1Find an automation that sends something (email, Slack, and so on)
2. 2Open it in Make or Zapier
3. 3Before the 'Send' step, add an 'Approval' step (both tools have this)
4. 4That step will pause and ask you before sending
5. 5Test it with real data — trigger the automation and approve the message
6. 6Time how long the approval takes (it's usually 10 seconds)

Rewrite this automation so a human approves the final message before it sends. What could go wrong if no one ever approves?

• Automation found
• Approval step inserted before the send
• Real test run completed (you received the approval request)
• Message sent only after you approved it
• Time from trigger to send is acceptable