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The Proposals inbox

The Facturn team

Why AI-proposed cards do not auto-land on your action board, and what we built instead.

A small but load-bearing decision in Facturn: nothing the AI proposes ever auto-lands on your action board.

Every proposed card sits in a dedicated Proposals inbox until a human reviews it. The reviewer can edit the title, description, and tier on the way to promote, or reject with a one-line reason.

Why this matters

Two reasons.

First, the AI is good at noticing patterns and bad at judging your priorities. It does not know that you already shipped this last sprint, that the customer in question churned, or that the legal team has a hard deadline next week. You do.

Second, when humans stay in the loop on every state transition, the team's trust in the system compounds. If even one card lands on the board with a stale rationale, the whole board starts feeling like noise.

How rejection feedback works

Reject reasons are workspace-scoped. The most recent ones (newest first, capped to a small token budget) are injected into the system prompt for the next propose call.

In practice this means the agent stops proposing cards you already said no to, and the cost of a "no" trends down over time.

If you want the longer reference, see Proposed cards.