Every gate is a pair. Studio drafts, Frank locks quality, then it goes out for client approval on direction. Two locks testing different things: is this good enough to carry our name, and is this what they want. The order matters, because anything that reaches the client before Frank has seen it hands them his job, and they spend an included round on craft instead of direction.
Frank's lane has no record row entry. The client approvals at least sit in email. Frank's approval lives in whether he happened to look. Most influence over what ships, least trace, and first to be skipped when a deadline tightens.
Chrina is drawn at the SOW. Placement flagged, because assigning after signature means the SOW quotes dates against capacity nobody checked. If assignment happens before, availability becomes an input to the quote and she moves one stage left.