Tutorial: Run your first workflow
This guide provides a step-by-step walkthrough for executing your first automated process within Rival Enterprise. It is designed for new team members and business operators working within an enterprise workspace.
Setting aside approximately 10 minutes, you will complete an automated sequence, supply runtime parameters, interact with a human-in-the-loop approval gate, and inspect the final execution telemetry.
Prerequisites
Section titled “Prerequisites”Before beginning this tutorial, verify that the following conditions are met:
- Workspace access — you are authenticated into your organization’s workspace via Single Sign-On (SSO).
- Approved assets — your enterprise administrator has approved at least one workflow template for your team or department. If they have not, you can request that workflows found in the Marketplace be added to your organization.
- Connected accounts — personal or service connections are linked if required by your target workflow.
Walkthrough
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Select an approved workflow.
Navigate to the Marketplace or your Workspace tab from the primary navigation menu.
- Browse approved assets — filter by Workflows to view solutions pre-screened and published by your IT administrators.
- Choose a low-risk starter workflow — for your first run, select a read-only or informational asset, such as a daily status summarizer, document analyzer, or lead data extractor. A read-only task lets you observe system execution without impacting external database records or sending outbound communications.
- Adopt to workspace — click Adopt to clone the workflow into your active workspace inventory if it is not already listed.
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Configure runtime parameters and execute.
Open the adopted workflow from your active Workspace dashboard.
- Provide operational context — input any required parameters prompted by the workflow interface, such as a target file URL, a specific date range, a channel name, or a customer ID.
- Initiate execution — click Run.
- Observe real-time execution — Rival coordinates underlying language models, executes tool logic, and interacts with connected enterprise systems. You can monitor step-by-step progress directly in the live execution viewer.
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Evaluate output deliverables.
Once the processing steps complete, the workflow generates its primary output deliverable.
- Review the generated content — inspect the generated summary, report, or data payload directly within the result panel.
- Verify accuracy — check the output against your expected business logic to verify accuracy and build trust in the automated step sequence before relying on the deliverable for operational decisions.
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Manage human-in-the-loop approval checkpoints.
If the workflow involves gated, high-impact, or transactional operations — updating a CRM, posting to an external channel, initiating a financial record — execution pauses at a mandatory approval checkpoint.
- Review the gated payload — the system displays a detailed approval request showing the exact payload, target system endpoints, and proposed action.
- Authorize or reject — Approve grants authorization for Rival to execute the final downstream action. Reject terminates execution immediately, logging the cancellation reason for compliance reporting.
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Inspect audit logs and telemetry.
After execution finishes:
- Retrieve deliverables — view final outputs within the workflow interface or directly inside the designated target system.
- Verify the audit trail — select Activity from the primary menu to review complete operational telemetry: execution start and end timestamps, connector API calls and tool usage logs, and timestamped records of human approval sign-offs and user authorization.
What you just learned
Section titled “What you just learned”By completing this tutorial, you have executed the foundational loop of Automated AI: select an approved workflow, supply parameters and run, review the output, provide human sign-off, and verify the audit record.