Two of us are working on the site at the same time
Most people never meet this. It matters if more than one person works on your site, or if you use your own AI assistant alongside the workshop, or if you have someone helping you and you're both in at once.
Your site has one drafting table. Every change - yours, your helper's, any AI you've connected - is laid on the same table until someone approves it.
What that means in practice
Changes don't queue up in separate piles per person. They pile up together. So if you approve while someone else is mid-way through their own work, you approve theirs as well as yours - possibly before they'd finished, and without ever having seen it.
Nothing is lost or corrupted. But something can go live earlier than the person making it intended.
The rule that avoids all of it
One editor at a time, and approve before you hand over.
Once a change is approved and live, it is completely safe from whoever works next. The risk only ever applies to unapproved work still sitting on the table. Finish, approve, then let the next person start.
Read the whole list before approving
The approval list names every change waiting, in plain words (How do I approve or undo changes?). Read all of it, not just the last few lines. If there's an entry you don't recognise, it came from another session - and you can untick it and leave it for them rather than making it live.
That one habit removes almost all of the difficulty.
What Bernard catches for you
He is not silent about it. If an AI tries to throw away a draft that holds someone else's changes, it's refused and told exactly whose work it would have destroyed. If two editors write over the same thing, the second is told its view is out of date instead of quietly winning.
Those guards catch the damaging cases. They don't make two simultaneous editors a good idea.
Seeing what happened
If something appeared on your site that you don't remember approving, your site's history has it: every approval, what changed, and where it came from - including whether it came from a connected assistant acting on your instructions (Is it safe to let an AI edit my site?).
The prompt
“Show me everything waiting in my draft right now, who made each change, and when - before I approve anything.”
Press Copy, then paste it into your AI and fill in the [bracketed] parts. First time? Connect your AI to bernard first - a one-time setup in bernard → your site → Use your own AI.
Questions people ask
- Can two people edit at the same time?
- They can, but it's worth avoiding. There is one drafting table per site, shared by everyone and every AI working on it, so changes from two editors pile up together rather than staying separate. Approving then picks up whatever is on the table, including someone else's work.
- Could I approve something I've never seen?
- Yes, and that's the reason for this page. The approval list always shows you every change waiting with a plain description, so read the whole list rather than the last few lines - if something is there you don't recognise, it came from another session.
- Does Bernard stop me losing someone else's work?
- Partly. If an AI tries to throw away a draft holding someone else's changes, it's refused and told whose they are. And if two editors write over each other, the second is told its view is out of date rather than silently winning. Those guards catch the worst cases, not every case.
- How do I see what actually went live?
- Your site's history lists every approval, what changed and who it came from. If a change appeared you didn't expect, that's where it will be named.
- What's the simple rule?
- One editor at a time, and approve before handing over. A finished, approved change is never at risk from the next person - only unapproved work sitting on the shared table is.