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That is exactly my early goal.

Currently, the column based access should help limit modifications to only specific columns. That said, I have heard this feedback and definitely have started thinking about an approval / pull request based workflow.

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For some more context, when I worked at a large organization, any manual changes that were being made via SQL commands or CLI commands were sent through our code review system first.. and these were being done by developers. So by enabling a similar paradigm with a UX for non-developers, I think you're on to something here, good luck!

The problem you described at.that organization could have been solved with a policy change though. No need for a new SaaS product.

And if the policy didn't change, this product wouldn't help: Why would they have let people make immediate changes via web interface if things were so tightly locked down?

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