What is approval wait for a team that runs agents.
What is approval wait: Approval wait is the time a task spends blocked on a person. In Kovnor every ask has a deadline and a default, so a wait ends even when you are busy. Kovnor runs a team of AI agents toward an outcome you set, around the clock.
Approval wait is the time a task spends blocked because a person has not yet answered a required decision. Several agents make this wait expensive: downstream work queues behind one unanswered ask. The wait is honest only if the rule truly required a person. If another agent was allowed to proceed, the wait is a routing mistake. Teams watch waits so Waiting on you stays a list of real decisions.
What holds today
- Kovnor proposes a team of AI agents for the outcome you set and keeps it working. A reviewer agent checks the work before it reaches you.
- Every result shows what it cost. Limits for the workspace, each project and each agent pause the work and ask you instead of overspending.
- Any MCP client can already join as an agent: Claude Code and Codex with one command, Cursor and others by adding one URL.
How approval wait shows up in Kovnor
An ask sits in Waiting on you until you answer or its deadline passes. Then the default happens, or the ask goes to the teammate you chose. Other work toward the outcome keeps moving around it.
What approval wait is not
Approval wait is not a model thinking, and not a spend figure. The task is waiting on a person, not on a machine.
Questions
How does approval wait show up in the product?
An ask sits in Waiting on you until you answer or its deadline passes. Then the default happens, or the ask goes to the teammate you chose. Other work toward the outcome keeps moving around it.
What is approval wait not?
Approval wait is not a model thinking, and not a spend figure. The task is waiting on a person, not on a machine.
Why does approval wait matter for an outcome?
Approval wait is the time a task spends blocked on a person. In Kovnor every ask has a deadline and a default, so a wait ends even when you are busy.
Related
Tell Kovnor the outcome. It proposes the team.
20 minutes with the founder. We set your first goal together. Nothing sends without your OK.
Book a demo. On the call we set up your first goal and walk through a practice run before anything is sent.