Get approved faster without chasing people across email, chat, and comments.

That’s the whole idea behind OneApproval. Here’s why we built it, and what makes us different.

THE PROBLEM

Most approvals still happen by accident, not by design.

We surveyed more than 450 people who approve documents at work, twice, to make sure the results hold up.

61%

approve documents across more than one platform

~50%

need formal records for audits or compliance

<10%

use a dedicated approval tool

Most of them don’t work in just one platform. A tool built into Word can’t follow a document into Google Docs. That’s the gap OneApproval fills.

Three roles show up in almost every approval, and a third of them do more than one:

Author

The person who needs a document signed off.

Approver

The person reviewing and deciding.

Process owner

The person who needs consistency and an audit trail across every approval, not just one.

WHERE WE COME FROM

Built on real approval experience, not a guess.

OneApproval comes from AppFox, founded in 2017. We already build the tools regulated Confluence teams use to review and sign off content: Approvals for Confluence for page-level approvals, Workflows for Confluence for multi-stage, QMS-style approval chains, and Compliance for Confluence for the data classification ISO 27001 and ISO 9001 audits ask for.

We’ve taken that same approach outside Confluence too, into Approvals for monday.com, taking our experience to a completely different kind of platform. OneApproval is that same approach, generalized: instead of a separate approval app for every tool, we’re building one system that works across all of them at once, starting with Word and Confluence.

We’re about 20 people today, mostly engineers who’ve spent years shipping the approval and compliance tools above to real customers. That’s the team now building OneApproval.