Agentic HR
Employees get answers without opening a ticket
- Works with Workday, Okta, Slack
- Deploys to AWS and Google Cloud
- SOC 2 Type II attested
Details
- Built by
- Cenna
- Department
- HR
- App type
- Prebuilt app
- Deploys to
AWS
Google CloudAzure coming soon
- Works with
- Workday, Okta, Slack, and more
- Source code
- Included
- Sign-in
- Your SSO
Overview
Agentic HR answers policy questions from your own handbook, runs onboarding and offboarding, processes leave and data changes, and documents every case, so your team can focus on the sensitive ones.
- Your policies become playbooksYour HR team writes leave rules, onboarding steps, and approval chains as plain-language playbooks. When a policy changes, you edit the playbook yourself.
- Policy questions answered on the spotEmployees get answers grounded in your handbook as soon as they ask. Only exceptions reach a person.
- Works with your HR systemsConnects to Workday, HiBob, Rippling, or the HRIS you run, reading and writing through scoped integrations. Setup usually takes a day.
Watch it handle an HR request
Ask about an employee request and it checks the policy, takes the action, and records the case.
How much parental leave do we offer?
- Searched the employee handbook
- Checked the requester's location and tenure
16 weeks paid, for this employee.
Your handbook offers 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave after 12 months of service, and this employee qualifies. It can be taken any time in the first year. I can start the leave request and file it in Workday if they're ready.
What changes
Before
Every question is a ticket in a queue
- A leave-policy question waits a day for a reply
- Onboarding is a spreadsheet worked by hand
- Data changes mean an employee fights an HRIS portal
- The HR team spends its day on repeat questions
With Cenna
Routine requests are handled before they reach your team
- Policy answered instantly from your own handbook
- Onboarding assembled and tracked to done
- Leave and data changes filed on the employee's behalf
- Your HR team works on the cases that need a person
Use cases
Skills
Each skill is a written procedure your team can read and edit. Add your own for processes specific to your people team.
- Answer a policy question from the handbook
- Assemble an onboarding checklist
- Run an exit checklist
- Process a leave request
- Check PTO balance and eligibility
- Answer a benefits enrollment question
- Draft an offer letter from template
- Verify employment for a third party
- Route a manager or role change
- Track policy acknowledgements
- Flag incomplete compliance training
- Summarize a case for review
- Escalate a sensitive case
- Schedule onboarding sessions
- Prepare a headcount change summary
Integrations
The app can file leave and data changes in Workday, request new-hire accounts in Okta, and notify managers in Slack. Each connection is limited to the actions it declares.
| System | What it does | Scope |
|---|---|---|
| Workday | File leave and data changes | worker:write |
| Okta | Request new-hire accounts | users:provision |
| Slack | Notify managers and owners | chat:write |
These are examples. Your team can connect other systems, each with its own scope.
Security and governance
Every Cenna app ships with the same security controls.
- Your deployment modelRun fully in your AWS or Google Cloud account, keep your data in your cloud while Cenna runs the app, or use a dedicated single-tenant instance.
- Your identity providerEvery app signs in through your SSO, with role-based permissions per app.
- Scoped integrationsEach connection declares exactly what it may do. Nothing runs outside that grant, and revoking it takes effect immediately.
- Approved models onlyEach app has its own approved-model list. A call to anything off it is refused and logged.
- Every run recordedEvery agent action is traced with its steps and its cost, so any decision can be reviewed.
- Budgets and hard capsSpend is metered by app, team, task, and model, with caps that stop runaway usage.
SOC 2 Type II attestedView Trust Center →
Frequently asked questions
Is employee data safe?
Yes. The app connects to your HRIS with a scoped grant and reads only what a request needs. When you run it in your own cloud account, employee data stays there and is never copied to Cenna.
Does it replace our HR team?
No. It handles repeat questions and checklist work so your team can focus on sensitive cases. When something needs judgment, it escalates with the case documented.
Whose policies does it answer from?
Yours. It answers from the handbook and documents you load, so a question about parental leave gets your policy, with tenure and location rules applied.
Can we keep a human in the loop?
Yes. Choose which steps need approval, such as a manager change, a sensitive case, or anything above a threshold. Those steps wait for a named person to approve, and the approval is recorded on the case.
How is spend controlled?
Token and cloud costs are metered per task and per user, models are approved centrally, and every run is traced and priced. Spend works the same way in every Cenna app.

