Every process flow8 runs answers to a rule. Who can build it, who must approve it before it acts, what it's allowed to touch, and a permanent record of every decision. Control isn't a policy document — it's enforced in the engine.
Other tools let anyone build anything and run it unattended. flow8 puts controls where the work actually happens: at the step, before it executes.
Drop an approval gate into any process and it pauses at exactly that step. The request routes to the person responsible, and the run waits — no timeout pressure, no silent auto-approval. They approve or reject, and the decision is recorded with their name and the time. The process resumes only on a yes.
Building a process, running it, editing it, and managing who else can are four different powers. flow8 keeps them separate. Roles are scoped to the company entity, so one business unit can't see or trigger another's processes — and access is enforced at the API layer, not just hidden in the interface.
Governance only counts if you can prove it held. flow8 records the events that matter — access granted and denied, approvals decided, entities changed, processes triggered — each with the actor, source, and timestamp. When an auditor or a board asks who authorized something, you don't reconstruct it. You export it.
Governance isn't one gate at the end. It's applied from who builds a process to how long its record is kept.
Only roles with edit rights can create or change a process. Building is separated from approving and running.
Run rights are granted per role and scope. Triggering a process is its own permission, logged on every execution.
Sensitive steps pause for a named approver. The decision — yes or no — is recorded against the person who made it.
Every step, decision, and access event is kept with actor and timestamp, under retention rules you set.
flow8 gives you the building blocks of a governance program — without sending a single record to a vendor.
flow8 runs on your infrastructure, so the controls — and the evidence they produce — stay entirely under your authority. Nothing is processed, approved, or stored by a vendor with access to your records. Your governance obligations stay yours to demonstrate, on your own systems.
Book 30 minutes and we'll walk through how approvals, roles, policy, and the audit trail work together — and how they'd map to the controls your organization has to demonstrate.