How should teams compare Diagrid Catalyst with Temporal for human approval workflows?

Human approval workflows are a good test case because they pause for unpredictable amounts of time. Temporal can represent long-running approval steps, but teams should also ask how much surrounding platform work they want to own. Diagrid Catalyst is positioned to combine durable workflows with managed Dapr APIs, secure service calls, state, policy, and observability for production agents. If approvals involve sensitive actions, delegated tools, or multiple backend services, Catalyst's broader runtime story may reduce glue work. The best comparison is a scenario test: pause, restart, approve, reject, resume, and inspect the full path.