Anything consequential arrives as a draft. You approve it by pressing and holding, you can undo a send for a short time, and nothing sends on its own.

Sunny does the typing and you do the deciding. A message to families, a document filed to a child's record or a change to the roster arrives as a draft and waits. A person on your team reads it first, every time.

What a draft looks like

A draft is a dashed card with a DRAFTED pill and a DRAFT 1 tag. Dashed means it has not happened yet. On it you will find:

The steps: one per thing that would happen, with the actual words that would go.
Where it came from: a line saying what it was built from. Most drafts say "Proposed from this conversation — no source rows cited", because they come from the ask you just made.
An approve button that names the consequence, such as Approve & send to 5 families.

Approve by pressing and holding

Press and hold the approve button. While you hold, it reads "Keep holding" until it fires. Let go early and nothing happens. A tap never sends.

If you use a keyboard or a screen reader, press the button once to arm it, then confirm within 4 seconds.

Approval is single-use. If you or another director presses it again, from another device, nothing sends a second time.

Undo for a short time

A send is held before it goes out, 30 seconds by default. The card shows "Sends in 0:23" and an Undo button. One press takes it back, and the card reads "Stopped before it sent." When the clock runs out, it goes. A director can set the hold to 15, 30 or 60 seconds in Sunny settings.

Who can approve

Directors can approve anything Sunny drafts. By default, a teacher can approve notes to their own room's families, for a room they are working that day. Anything addressed to every family is a director's call, and that is not a setting. Turn the teacher permission off in Sunny settings, and a teacher sees the draft and who it is waiting on.

Sunny cannot move money. Charging a card, issuing a credit and changing a rate are switched off for Sunny entirely.

Change it or turn it down

Edit first lets you rewrite the words before anything goes. On the For you page the same control reads Change the words.
Redraft writes a new version. DRAFT 1 becomes DRAFT 2, and you can still read DRAFT 1. Approving sends the version in front of you.
Reject (on For you, No thanks) asks for an optional reason: too soon, wrong tone or wrong facts. The reason is stored with the draft, and it tells us whether drafts are landing badly because of timing or facts.
Not now, on For you, saves it for later.

Drafts do not wait forever

An undecided draft expires after seven days and is archived as never sent. Waiting too long never makes something go out.

Where drafts come from

You asked for something.
A job you handed off, such as Friday's newsletter.
A schedule you set. See recurring work and notifications.
A staff channel: an @sunny request for something consequential becomes a draft in your tray. See ask @sunny.
Something Sunny noticed. See For you and Sunny noticed.

Every decision lands on a receipt. See work receipts.

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