How to Use This Tool
Turn reviewer availability and minutes per draft into a realistic approval queue limit. Production stalls when a sponsor or internal reviewer accepts more drafts than the available approval hours can clear.
Why Approval Capacity needs more than a raw total
Review capacity is separate from creator production capacity and often becomes the true publishing bottleneck. For this page, the useful comparison is drafts reviewable per week, not whichever input happens to be largest. The Approval Capacity result answers the decision in the heading and should not be reused as a score for a different workflow.
The exact Approval Capacity formula
Weekly approval capacity equals reviewer hours × 60 divided by average review minutes per draft. The visible fields are Reviewer time available and Average review time per draft. For Approval Capacity, read each printed unit before entry and make the values describe one transaction, cohort or reporting window. If those scopes differ, the displayed drafts reviewable per week may be arithmetically valid but operationally meaningless.
Interpreting drafts reviewable per week
Measure review time including consolidated feedback, then cap weekly submissions or add reviewers before the queue grows. The ten-percent comparison is deliberately narrow: it tests the influence of reviewer time available and is neither a forecast nor a confidence interval. Preserve the values used, their dates and the resulting decision so a later reviewer can reproduce why Approval Capacity supported the choice.
What this Approval Capacity model leaves out
The model assumes similar draft complexity and excludes waiting for legal, product claims, reshoots or asynchronous clarification. That is where Approval Capacity stops being trustworthy. If an excluded factor could reverse drafts reviewable per week, extend the model explicitly or use the authoritative account system instead of hiding the factor inside an unexplained adjustment.
Evidence and independent verification
The reference reviewed for Approval Capacity is US SBA — Manage your business. US SBA — Manage your business supports the named definition or rule but does not supply private values for drafts reviewable per week. Before acting on the result, reconcile the worked example with the relevant dashboard, invoice, export or measurement.
Private, reproducible calculation
Approval Capacity runs its arithmetic in the current browser tab and requests no login or API key. That keeps the Approval Capacity inputs away from the site's calculation server, while leaving the user responsible for detecting stale data or a changed platform rule. When an assumption changes, reopen US SBA — Manage your business and rerun the saved Approval Capacity scenario.
Sources & assumptions
Tool Spec v2 · verified 2026-08-22. Platform rules and fees can change; the editable inputs remain authoritative for your account.
Official references
- US SBA — Manage your business (checked 2026-08-22)
Model assumptions
- Every input covers the same reporting period or cohort.
- The model assumes similar draft complexity and excludes waiting for legal, product claims, reshoots or asynchronous clarification.
- The calculator uses only the visible fields and does not fetch account data.
