Workflow builder
A visual editor for designing identity flows without code.
Instead of asking engineers to write code, a risk or product team drags steps onto a canvas, connects them, and sets what happens at each decision.
A no-code canvas for composing verification steps, branches, and decision outcomes into deployable flows. A branch is a point where the flow splits depending on a result, and a decision outcome is the final result, such as approve, decline, or review.
A workflow builder typically offers several building blocks:
- Steps, such as document capture, selfie, liveness check, and data checks.
- Conditions, such as sending a case down a different path if a score is low.
- Outcomes, such as approve, decline, or send to manual review.
- Settings, such as thresholds and which providers to call.
A team typically uses it like this:
- They design the flow on the canvas.
- They test it in a safe environment, called a sandbox, with fake data.
- They review and approve the change.
- They deploy it, and the change takes effect without a software release.
Good tools add controls around the changes:
- Version history, so a team can compare and roll back changes.
- Approvals, so a second person reviews important changes.
- Audit records, so the company can show who changed what and when.
A workflow builder sits next to terms that are easy to mix up:
- Orchestration is the runtime that executes the flows the builder creates.
- Rules engine applies if-then logic, which the builder lets teams configure visually.
- Decisioning engine produces the approve, decline, or review outcome at the end of the flow.
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- Workflow builder
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