When copy is marked ready for design, the approved text is only part of what a designer needs. The decisions that shaped it tend to live in the comments, and the comments do not travel with the handover.
The result is design asking questions that were settled a week ago, or quietly reinstating something that was deliberately removed.
Ask your agent to build the handover from the copy and the conversation together.
What the agent starts with
Two pieces of copy are waiting in Ready for design on a Timestripe board.
The first is landing page copy, approved, with five comments underneath it. One of those comments records that the second call to action was dropped on purpose, and nothing in the copy itself says so. A designer working from the text alone would have no way of knowing it was ever there, and the previous campaign's brief had two.
The second is a sequence of emails. Its description says approved at the top and reads as finished, and three comments down there is a question nobody has answered.
The prompt
Moving the copy to In design rather than Done is a small thing that decides where the next conversation happens. A closed task pushes follow-up into chat, and a task still open in the design stage keeps it attached to the work.
What comes back
One piece is handed over and one is sent back.
A task appears in the In design column of the Design queue board, holding the approved landing page copy, a character count per element, and the note that the second call to action was removed on purpose. The copy goal itself moves to In design too and stays linked, so either side can get back to the other.
The email sequence stays where it is with a comment asking for the open question to be answered. It says approved at the top, and that is exactly why the rule is worth having: the description is not where you find out whether something is finished.
