Draft, Review, and Approve: A Real Editorial Workflow in Content

Content launched with a simple model — a post is either a draft or published — which works for a single author writing and publishing their own work, and breaks down the moment more than one person is involved in getting a post out the door. Today's release adds a real editorial workflow: draft, in review, approved, and published, with reviewer assignment at each step.

How it works

Any post can be moved from draft to "in review," which assigns it to one or more reviewers and notifies them the same way an @mention would elsewhere on the platform. Reviewers can leave inline comments directly on the post — the same comment experience Editor uses — and either approve it, moving it to "approved" and ready to publish or schedule, or send it back to draft with notes attached. Publishing itself remains a separate, explicit step even after approval, so an approved post doesn't go live automatically the moment the last reviewer signs off.

Where this is useful

This is aimed at teams where more than one person touches a piece of content before it's public — a writer and an editor, a marketing lead who needs final sign-off, or a legal or compliance reviewer on regulated content. It replaces the workaround teams were already using — leaving review notes in a separate document or a Chat thread disconnected from the actual draft — with a process that lives inside Content itself.

What's included

Status tracking, reviewer assignment, inline comments, and approval gating are live today, alongside the editorial calendar shipped earlier, which now also reflects each post's review status with its own indicator. Configurable required-approval rules — for example, requiring two approvals before a post can publish — are planned for a follow-up release.

The editorial workflow is available now for every workspace using Content, opt-in per post — a solo author can still draft and publish directly without going through review.