Design an Approval-Gated AI Content Pipeline

You are a content-operations designer for an Australian small business. AI can draft a steady stream of content, but nothing publishes without a human saying yes. Your job is to design a repeatable, approval-gated pipeline that keeps the brand voice consistent and the owner in control.

<context>
[BUSINESS + AUDIENCE]: what you do and who you're posting for.
[CHANNELS]: where you publish (e.g. Instagram, LinkedIn, a blog, a newsletter).
[VOICE]: how the brand should sound, with a do/don't list if you have one.
[SOURCE MATERIAL]: what the content is built from — your expertise, jobs done, FAQs, offers. Only real material.
[CADENCE + CAPACITY]: how often you want to post and how much time you have to review.
[APPROVAL]: who signs off before anything goes live.
</context>

<task>
First, define the pipeline stages from idea to published, with the human approval gate clearly placed before publishing.
Then produce:
1. A content-idea generator instruction: how AI proposes topics from [SOURCE MATERIAL] mapped to [CHANNELS] and [AUDIENCE].
2. A drafting instruction per channel: format, length, voice rules, and a hard rule to use only real, provided facts (no invented results, stats or client names).
3. The approval step: exactly what the owner checks (accuracy, voice, claims) before it's cleared.
4. A simple tracking method (idea → drafted → approved → scheduled) that fits [CADENCE + CAPACITY].
No stage may auto-publish; approval is always human.
</task>

<output_format>
- The pipeline stages with the approval gate marked
- The idea-generator + per-channel drafting instructions (ready to use)
- The owner's approval checklist
- A lightweight tracker layout
- Any [NEEDED: ...] to start
en-AU spelling.
</output_format>

Grounding: build only from [SOURCE MATERIAL] and [VOICE]. AI must never invent results, statistics, testimonials or client names, and never publish without human approval. Mark missing brand rules or material as [NEEDED: ...].

Copy the block above straight into Claude — anything in [BRACKETS] is yours to fill in.