{
  "schemaVersion": "1.0",
  "title": "Electronic Approval and Document Workflow System",
  "lang": "en",
  "prd": {
    "oneLiner": "Connect document templates, routing rules, electronic approval, rejection and resubmission, history, and operations reporting.",
    "goal": "Reduce average document approval lead time by 25% and track 100% of approval history.",
    "whyNow": "Document forms, approval routes, and decisions are spread across email and shared folders, weakening policy compliance and auditability.",
    "category": "Internal operations system",
    "platforms": [
      "Web"
    ],
    "problem": "Document forms, approval routes, and decisions are spread across email and shared folders, weakening policy compliance and auditability.",
    "solution": "Connect document templates, routing rules, electronic approval, rejection and resubmission, history, and operations reporting.",
    "alternatives": "Email, chat, spreadsheets, and manual ledgers",
    "differentiator": "Manage intake, processing, and operations data as one connected source of truth.",
    "targets": [
      {
        "name": "Employee creating and routing a document",
        "role": "Requester and operational user",
        "needs": "Quickly register needed work and know its status.",
        "pain": "Document forms, approval routes, and decisions are spread across email and shared folders, weakening policy compliance and auditability."
      },
      {
        "name": "Approval policy and document operations coordinator",
        "role": "Operations administrator",
        "needs": "Manage priority and history and review operations metrics.",
        "pain": "Document forms, approval routes, and decisions are spread across email and shared folders, weakening policy compliance and auditability."
      },
      {
        "name": "System and policy administrator",
        "role": "Operations and security administrator",
        "needs": "Manage access, policy, and audit history.",
        "pain": "Document forms, approval routes, and decisions are spread across email and shared folders, weakening policy compliance and auditability."
      }
    ],
    "scenarios": [
      {
        "text": "An operational user registers required work and checks its status.",
        "start": "P1"
      },
      {
        "text": "An operator processes queued work and handles exceptions.",
        "start": "P5"
      },
      {
        "text": "System and policy administrator reviews policy and access.",
        "start": "P9"
      },
      {
        "text": "System and policy administrator reviews audit records and operating metrics.",
        "start": "P10"
      }
    ],
    "northStar": "Share of operations requests completed on time",
    "kpis": [
      {
        "name": "On-time processing rate",
        "target": "Reduce average document approval lead time by 25% and track 100% of approval history.",
        "baseline": "Not measured",
        "method": "Monthly aggregation of state changes against target dates",
        "refs": [
          "F6"
        ]
      },
      {
        "name": "Operations visibility",
        "target": "100% of key work tracked",
        "baseline": "Not measured",
        "method": "Share of records connected to reporting",
        "refs": [
          "F11"
        ]
      },
      {
        "name": "Auditable operations rate",
        "target": "100% of key changes retained",
        "baseline": "Not measured",
        "method": "Monthly audit-log and change-history review",
        "refs": [
          "F12"
        ]
      }
    ],
    "inScope": [
      "Approval-document creation and attachment submission",
      "Inbox, document, and approval-history lookup",
      "Approval-route assignment, approval, rejection, and resubmission handling",
      "Approval lead-time and bottleneck reporting by document type",
      "Approval-document creation and attachment submission validation and duplicate prevention",
      "Search, filter, and history management",
      "Owner, priority, and SLA management",
      "Approval and policy review",
      "Exception, rejection, and reprocessing",
      "Notifications and subscriptions",
      "External integration and data synchronization",
      "Role, permission, and audit management"
    ],
    "nonGoals": [
      "External customer portal",
      "Replacing adjacent systems such as accounting or payroll"
    ],
    "assumptions": [
      "User and organization data are available through company SSO.",
      "Operators manage policy and classification criteria."
    ],
    "risks": [
      "Weak initial classification can cause incorrect processing.",
      "Stale source data can reduce operational trust."
    ],
    "openQuestions": [
      "What defines urgent processing and approval?",
      "What are the post-completion verification and reopen rules?"
    ],
    "constraints": [
      "State, owner, and priority changes require audit logs.",
      "Access is limited by role.",
      "Permission, policy, and state changes require audit logs."
    ]
  },
  "requirements": [
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      "id": "R1",
      "title": "Intake and data quality",
      "desc": "Document forms, approval routes, and decisions are spread across email and shared folders, weakening policy compliance and auditability.",
      "status": "todo",
      "priority": "high",
      "acceptance": [
        {
          "text": "Required context, changes, ownership, and status are retained in an auditable record.",
          "done": false
        }
      ],
      "features": [
        {
          "id": "F1",
          "title": "Approval-document creation and attachment submission",
          "desc": "Connect document templates, routing rules, electronic approval, rejection and resubmission, history, and operations reporting.",
          "status": "todo",
          "priority": "high",
          "acceptance": [
            {
              "text": "Required context, changes, ownership, and status are retained in an auditable record.",
              "done": false
            }
          ],
          "specs": [
            {
              "title": "Approval-document creation and attachment submission core processing rule",
              "desc": "Connect document templates, routing rules, electronic approval, rejection and resubmission, history, and operations reporting.",
              "acceptance": [
                {
                  "text": "Required context, changes, ownership, and status are retained in an auditable record.",
                  "done": false
                }
              ]
            },
            {
              "title": "Approval-document creation and attachment submission exception and audit handling",
              "desc": "Connect document templates, routing rules, electronic approval, rejection and resubmission, history, and operations reporting. Retain change, failure, and reprocessing conditions with history.",
              "acceptance": [
                {
                  "text": "Required context, changes, ownership, and status are retained in an auditable record.",
                  "done": false
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        },
        {
          "id": "F2",
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            {
              "text": "Required context, changes, ownership, and status are retained in an auditable record.",
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            }
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            {
              "title": "Approval-document creation and attachment submission validation and duplicate prevention core processing rule",
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          ]
        }
      ]
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    {
      "id": "R2",
      "title": "Records and search",
      "desc": "Connect document templates, routing rules, electronic approval, rejection and resubmission, history, and operations reporting.",
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        {
          "text": "Required context, changes, ownership, and status are retained in an auditable record.",
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            {
              "text": "Required context, changes, ownership, and status are retained in an auditable record.",
              "done": false
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            {
              "title": "Inbox, document, and approval-history lookup core processing rule",
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                {
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            {
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        {
          "id": "F4",
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            {
              "title": "Search, filter, and history management exception and audit handling",
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              ]
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    {
      "id": "R3",
      "title": "Processing and ownership",
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        {
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        {
          "id": "F5",
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          "status": "todo",
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            {
              "text": "Required context, changes, ownership, and status are retained in an auditable record.",
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        {
          "id": "F6",
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              "title": "Owner, priority, and SLA management core processing rule",
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            {
              "title": "Owner, priority, and SLA management exception and audit handling",
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      "id": "R4",
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        {
          "id": "F7",
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            {
              "title": "Approval and policy review core processing rule",
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              "title": "Approval and policy review exception and audit handling",
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      "id": "R5",
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                  "text": "Required context, changes, ownership, and status are retained in an auditable record.",
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            }
          ]
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        {
          "id": "F10",
          "title": "External integration and data synchronization",
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              "text": "Required context, changes, ownership, and status are retained in an auditable record.",
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            {
              "title": "External integration and data synchronization core processing rule",
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                {
                  "text": "Required context, changes, ownership, and status are retained in an auditable record.",
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            {
              "title": "External integration and data synchronization exception and audit handling",
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                  "text": "Required context, changes, ownership, and status are retained in an auditable record.",
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              "text": "Required context, changes, ownership, and status are retained in an auditable record.",
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              "title": "Approval lead-time and bottleneck reporting by document type core processing rule",
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            {
              "title": "Approval lead-time and bottleneck reporting by document type exception and audit handling",
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                  "text": "Required context, changes, ownership, and status are retained in an auditable record.",
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        {
          "id": "F12",
          "title": "Role, permission, and audit management",
          "desc": "Reduce average document approval lead time by 25% and track 100% of approval history.",
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              "title": "Role, permission, and audit management core processing rule",
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                {
                  "text": "Required context, changes, ownership, and status are retained in an auditable record.",
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            {
              "title": "Role, permission, and audit management exception and audit handling",
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                  "text": "Required context, changes, ownership, and status are retained in an auditable record.",
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              "F3:1",
              "F7",
              "F10:0"
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          },
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            "id": "P10",
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              "F12:0",
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              "F4",
              "F7:0",
              "F10:1"
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