What teams see
- Work waits between receive document request and validate source data.
- Owners reconstruct status from Database and Google Drive.
Operations
Document generation and approval
Business documents are assembled from scattered records with inconsistent templates, review steps and version ownership.
Business problem
Business documents are assembled from scattered records with inconsistent templates, review steps and version ownership.
Why it happens
- No shared state spans Database, Google Drive, Microsoft 365.
- Decision and exception rules are applied inconsistently.
Why it becomes expensive
- Capacity is consumed by coordination and rework.
- Late exceptions weaken visibility and service quality.
Business outcomes
- Shorter archive record cycle
- Fewer handoff and missing-information exceptions
- Clear ownership from receive document request to archive record
- Inspectable decisions and recovery
Measurable KPIs
- Turnaround time: Elapsed time from receive document request to archive record.
- Manual intervention rate: Share of items needing a person outside defined review conditions.
- Exception age: Time unresolved exceptions remain without a completed action.
- Successful completion rate: Share of valid workflow items completing without terminal failure.
How the workflow works
- Receive document request — Accept and identify the document generation and approval trigger. Database
- Validate source data — Execute validate source data with validated sample data and an auditable result. Database
- Select template — Execute select template with validated sample data and an auditable result. Google Drive
- Generate document — Execute generate document with validated sample data and an auditable result. Microsoft 365
- Assign reviewer — Execute assign reviewer with validated sample data and an auditable result. SEIDO Review Queue
- Capture corrections — Execute capture corrections with validated sample data and an auditable result. Google Drive
- Approve version — Execute approve version with validated sample data and an auditable result. Microsoft 365
- Distribute document — Execute distribute document with validated sample data and an auditable result. Database
- Archive record — Execute archive record with validated sample data and an auditable result. Google Drive
- Audit and KPI update — Persist the execution outcome, audit facts and workflow measurement events. SEIDO execution store
Integrations and ownership
- Database: Provide workflow input
- Google Drive: Lookup and update context
- Microsoft 365: Receive controlled outcome
Human responsibility: Operations manager
Failure and recovery
Database is temporarily unavailable.
Retry with capped exponential backoff; preserve the run and move it to the inspectable failure queue after the limit.
Required data for validate source data is malformed or missing.
Stop downstream actions and show the missing fields, source evidence and correction action to the named reviewer.
The trigger or provider event is delivered more than once.
Return the existing execution identified by the idempotency key and do not repeat downstream business actions.
The human decision expires before completion.
Escalate to the configured substitute, retain the original request and record both expiry and reassignment.
When not to build this
- Monthly volume is too low to justify integrating Database, Google Drive, Microsoft 365.
- An existing configured platform already handles document generation and approval with adequate ownership and reporting.
- Reliable source data or supported API access is unavailable.
- No business owner has authority to define the decision and exception rules.
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