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BC 2026 release wave 2unofficial launch event map, by waldo

Features › Expense Agent

Interim approvers

announced · 1 min in 1 video · dev relevance low · documented as AI-Driven Approvals low match

Interim approvers

An interim approver such as an accountant can check an expense report for compliance. They must approve before the final approver.

Area: Expense Agent. Status: announced. Developer relevance: low. Airtime: 1 min across 1 video.

Status evidence

  • 6:55 in "What's new in Expense Agent: Improved Approval Process": "from next minor from November in some situations, you need more approvers"

Where they talk about it

Quotes

  • 7:06 "sometimes someone need to check your expense report against compliance reasons" - Gives the reason for interim approvers ahead of the final approver.

Caveats mentioned

  • More approval options are planned for the future

Documented features match

  • AI-Driven Approvals - low confidence (llm). Docs say: Public preview, roadmap id 573255. Approval area
  • Product documentation (partial, the article describes the broader feature or mentions this in passing): Set up expense users and teams, checked 2026-10-02. Expense Agent supports a simple approval process with one-to-many relationships ... Interim approvals aren't supported. Note: Contradicts the video: current docs say interim approvals are not supported. The 2026 wave 1 release plan lists 'interim and final approvals' (earlier wave).

Docs checked on 2026-10-02: the match is against Microsoft's what's new pages for the wave as they were on that date. Microsoft keeps filling the documentation, so "no documented item" can go stale.

Tags: expense, approvals, workflow

Generated by pipeline step 06. Source: YouTube auto-captions of the launch event videos, see the deep links. Not official.