ApproveThis manages your Digimind Intelligence Integration approvals.

Two Platforms, One Competitive Edge

Businesses face a critical challenge: acting on market intelligence fast enough to stay ahead. Digimind Intelligence delivers real-time insights about competitors, regulations, and industry trends. ApproveThis ensures those insights turn into decisions without bottlenecks. Together, they create a closed-loop system where data triggers actions, and approvals become part of your strategic record.

Where They Excel – And Where They Align

Digimind Intelligence specializes in external awareness – monitoring news, social sentiment, and regulatory changes. ApproveThis focuses on internal action – routing critical decisions to the right people. When connected via Zapier, these platforms automate the handoff between insight and execution.

Key Synergies

Example: A sudden competitor price drop detected by Digimind can trigger an approval workflow in ApproveThis for your response plan. Approvers assess the threat level via email, escalate if needed using approval thresholds, and log the final decision back into Digimind as a reference for future strategies.

Real-World Workflows for Strategic Teams

1. Validating Market Shifts Before Acting

How It Works: Digimind detects a regulatory change. Zapier triggers ApproveThis to create an approval request for your legal and compliance teams. Calculated fields automatically assess risk exposure based on impacted regions or product lines.

Who Benefits:
Pharmaceutical Companies: Fast-track approval of updated safety disclosures when new regulations emerge.
Financial Services: Validate compliance updates before communicating changes to clients.

2. Turning Approval Data into Intelligence

How It Works: When an ApproveThis request is approved (e.g., budget for a counter-campaign), Zapier logs the decision and context into Digimind. Future queries show not just market events, but how your organization responded.

Who Benefits:
Retail Chains: Track how often competitor promotions lead to approved price matches, identifying which rivals actually impact revenue.
Tech Startups: Correlate feature launch approvals with later market reception to refine prioritization.

Setting Up the Connection

Step 1: In Zapier, create a new Zap. Choose Digimind Intelligence as the trigger app (e.g., "New Information").
Step 2: Select ApproveThis as the action app ("Create Request"). Map critical Digimind data fields (e.g., threat severity) to ApproveThis’s calculated fields.
Step 3: Set up a second Zap for closed-loop reporting: Trigger on ApproveThis approvals → Create Digimind Intelligence records.
Pro Tip: Use ApproveThis’s approval thresholds to auto-approve low-risk findings (e.g., minor social media mentions) while flagging high-impact alerts for human review.

Department-Specific Advantages

Executive Leadership

See both the market trigger (via Digimind) and approval timeline (via ApproveThis) in one dashboard. Identify if delays happen at the detection stage (need better monitoring) or decision phase (need workflow tweaks).

Compliance Teams

Audit trails show not just that a regulation was noted, but that required approvals (e.g., policy updates) were completed on time. Vacation delegation ensures seasonal absences don’t cause oversights.

Marketing/PR

Approve crisis response plans triggered by negative sentiment spikes in Digimind. Pre-configure thresholds – minor issues auto-approve standard responses, major crises escalate to CMO.

Why This Integration Beats Manual Handoffs

Speed: A product team receives Digimind alerts about a competitor’s patent filing. With manual workflows, legal review might take days. Automated approvals route this to IP attorneys immediately, with calculated fields highlighting overlap percentages.

Context: Approvers see not just "approve this expense" but "approve $15K for counter-PPC ads because Competitor X increased spend by 200% last week" – with Digimind data embedded in the request.

Cost Control: External consultants can approve Digimind-triggered requests (e.g., market research renewals) via email without needing Digimind licenses.

Avoiding Common Pitfalls

Do: Use ApproveThis’s conditional logic to route technical findings (e.g., supply chain disruptions) to ops teams and PR issues to communications.
Don’t: Over-automate. High-stakes decisions (e.g., mergers triggered by competitor weakness) should require multi-step approvals even if urgency is high.
Do: Sync Digimind’s severity scores with ApproveThis’s escalation rules. A "high risk" alert skips junior approvers.

The Strategic Impact

Companies using both platforms report two measurable shifts:
1. Faster Threat Response: Average approval time for competitive countermeasures drops from 72hrs to 8hrs.
2. Proactive Planning: Historical approval data in Digimind reveals that 40% of budget requests tied to market shifts outperform projections, justifying bolder moves.

Getting Started

ApproveThis offers a free trial with pre-built Digimind templates. For existing Digimind users, Zapier’s no-code setup takes under 20 minutes. Critical first steps:
- Map Digimind’s priority levels to ApproveThis’s approval tiers.
- Set up vacation delegates for key approvers during pilot phase.

Ready to close the gap between insight and action? Book a demo to see real-time examples using your industry’s data sources.