# Automated Workflows

Simplified sharing in ClearView Rush

July 9, 2026

A **workflow** follows the path your reviews already take through your production, automating the hand-offs from one stage to the next.

Each stage has its own audience. A published review starts at the first stage and moves through them in order, one at a time.

What Rush takes on is the distribution. No one keeps a mailing list or works out who to forward a review to, and no one needs the full picture of who else is in the chain. People watch a review when it reaches them; those trusted to move it on release it to the next stage, and the routing carries it to the right people without anyone having to name them.

## How a workflow is assigned

A workflow is assigned per **review type** within a project. From then on, every review published under that type is routed into the workflow automatically — there's nothing to send by hand.

- A review type can have **one** workflow at a time.
- The same workflow can be reused across projects and review types.

This is why the people publishing matter less to the chain than you might expect. A contributor publishing from the Rush Portal doesn't need to know who picks the review up from the studio — they approve it when they're happy with it, and the workflow's routing takes it from there.

For now, Sohonet sets workflows up for you: let us know the stages you need and the people at each one, and we'll configure it for your project.

**Coming soon:** Self-service workflow management — building and editing your own workflows from an admin area — is on the way.

## Stages and releasers

A workflow can have as many or as few stages as the process needs. Each stage has:

- **Reviewers** — the people the review is shared with when it reaches their stage. They needn't know who comes next.
- **Releasers** — people at the stage who can also move the review on. When a releaser [releases the review](https://help.sohonet.com/en/articles/742862-automated-workflows#h_d15a275035), it passes to the next stage — without them having to know exactly who receives it.

A stage can name more than one releaser, but it only takes one release to move the review on — the first release sends it to the next stage. A stage isn't a sign-off gate where everyone has to approve.

A review moves one stage at a time, in order — it can't skip ahead.

When a review is released to the next stage, it's automatically shared with each reviewer there — surfacing as a **New** review for their attention in both their [Screening Room](https://help.sohonet.com/en/articles/742827-watch-a-review) and their [Focus](https://help.sohonet.com/en/articles/742833-focus).

## Releasing a review

Releasing sends a review on to the next stage of its workflow.

You'll only see a **Release** button where you're a **releaser** for the review's current stage.

1. Open **Focus** from the sidebar.
2. Watch the review first — reviews waiting on you show **Awaiting Release** once you've watched them.
3. Click **Release** on the review's row.

You can also release from the review's details: open the review from **All Reviews** and use the **Release** button in the review drawer.

Releasing can't be undone from the app — if you release something by mistake, contact whoever runs the workflow, or **Sohonet support**.

**Workspace Managers** have oversight of reviews in flight across a production and can step in to release one that has stalled between stages — see [Focus for Workspace Managers](https://help.sohonet.com/en/articles/742833-focus#h_7011a1d33a).

Not every review needs a workflow. Where one isn't set up, people can [share directly](https://help.sohonet.com/en/articles/742852-direct-sharing) with specific people instead. Direct sharing isn't available from the Rush Portal yet — that's coming soon.