Most form implementations treat submission as the finish line. Validate the payload. Insert a row. Return a success screen. Maybe send an email. Maybe post to Slack. That works until the form becomes operational. The first support request asks why the auto-reply did not arrive. A sales lead appears in Slack, but nobody owns it. A test submission pollutes a dashboard. A webhook retries and posts the same notification twice. A respondent sees "booking confirmed" when the team only meant "request received." At that point, the form submission handler is no longer just a handler. It is the entry point to a workflow. I have been building FORMLOVA , a form-operations product where people can create forms, review responses, configure emails, sync records, trigger notifications, and manage response status through chat and MCP clients. The product lesson has been consistent: A form response is not just data. It is an event that needs a lifecycle.…