Approvals (Autopilot)

Approvals is the Autopilot inbox: the changes Pulse Pilot will not make until you say so, grouped by product, with your recent decisions underneath. Each card carries a summary of why it came up; the help describes the buttons, not the reasoning. Pulse Pilot's own words, such as proposal, strategist and premise, are on Pulse Pilot Vocabulary; ACoS and budget terms are in the Amazon advertising glossary.

Open Autopilot → Approvals. The sidebar badge shows how many are waiting.

The cards

Cards are grouped under the product they concern, with the product's name, ASIN and an "N open" count. Each card has a type chip, a sentence or headline, and a summary of why (see Vocabulary). Two kinds of card exist, with different buttons.

Proposal cards (chips Budget raise, New target). A detail line shows the figures the change would set, before and after.

• Approve. Queues the change. Approving a budget raise first asks you to confirm that the weekly budget changes too.
• Skip. Sets the card aside without acting.

Strategist cards (chips such as Premise · target ACoS, Premise · lane budget, Premise · conversion, Goal · graduation, Strategist). The card carries a headline, a confidence badge, evidence rows, bound rows, a case paragraph and an impact line, all of which are a summary of why; Why this came up / Hide the details folds the provenance lines.

• Approve. Applies the change through the same path as every other write. Cards that only record a preference show option buttons here instead.
• Snooze 7d. Puts the card away for a week; it comes back with a "Snoozed until" chip.
• Decline. Turns the card down; it is not proposed again for the same verdict.

Feedback appears on the card after each action, including a message to refresh when the proposal changed since the page loaded.

Recent decisions

Your last approvals, skips and expired asks: the chip, the card's sentence, the product and when, and the outcome label: Approved by you, Preference recorded — no action taken, Declined by you, Skipped by you, Expired — no longer relevant, Withdrawn — the verdict changed, Now handled automatically, Couldn't apply.

Good to know

1. The empty inbox is normal. Pulse Pilot only asks before changing your budget or your goals; everything else runs automatically, so the list is usually empty.
2. Skip and Decline differ. Skip sets a card aside; Decline tells Pulse Pilot not to raise that ask again for the same verdict.
3. Expired is a status, not a date. A card expires when the ask stops being relevant.
4. Per-product cards live on the product page too. The same proposal cards appear under "Needs your approval" on each product's Overview tab.