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Replace the bots that break every UI change
RPA proved the work could be automated. Then came the breakage: bots that die when a button moves, machines to license and patch, an orchestrator team to keep it all alive. Cenna agents do the same work by understanding the screen — running in your cloud, with nothing to babysit.
01The problem
You know the failure modes by heart
None of them are your team's fault. They are what happens when automation memorizes screens instead of understanding them.
Brittle by design
The bot replays recorded clicks against fixed selectors. Any UI update — a moved button, a renamed field — and it dies at 3am.
A farm of machines
Every bot needs a machine or a VDI seat: licensed, patched, monitored, and idle most of the day.
An orchestrator to staff
Schedulers, queues, retry logic, credential vaults — a platform team's worth of upkeep for the automation itself.
No judgment
Rules only. Every exception falls out of the bot and back onto a person's desk, which is where the backlog came from.
02The difference
Bots memorize screens. Agents understand them.
| Comparison | Traditional RPA | Cenna agents |
|---|---|---|
| What it follows | Recorded clicks and pixel selectors | The goal — it reads the screen like a person |
| When the UI changes | The bot breaks; a developer re-records it | The agent adapts and keeps going |
| Where it runs | Dedicated bot machines and VDI seats | Browser sessions in your own cloud |
| Scaling up | Buy, license, and patch more machines | Sessions run in parallel, then scale to zero |
| Exceptions | Fall back to a human queue | Judgment built in — it asks when unsure |
| Audit | Orchestrator logs, if configured | Every run recorded with screenshots and cost |
The work your bots do today is exactly the work agents do better — that is what makes the migration straightforward.
03See it work
Watch a real run, unedited
An agent provisioning a Salesforce user end to end — signing in with its scoped credential, navigating Setup, and sending the invitation. Three moments from one recorded run.
1 · Signs in
With its own scoped credential — never a borrowed login.
2 · Finds its way
Navigates Setup by reading the screen, not replaying clicks.
3 · Does the work
Fills the invitation, sends it, and records the confirmation.
Real run · unedited · No selectors · Every step recorded
04Migration
Migrate one process at a time
No big-bang replacement. Keep the RPA that still works, and move the processes that keep breaking.
- 01
Pick the worst bot
Bot failures · 90 daysInvoice posting14 breaksVendor onboarding6 breaksStatement download3 breaksStart with the one that pages someone every month. That is where the payback is immediate.
- 02
Show the agent the task
Describe the taskOpen the vendor portal, download yesterday's invoices, and post each one to the ERP.✓No process re-mappingDescribe the job in plain language and walk it through once. No process re-mapping project.
- 03
Run them side by side
Side by side · stagingBot1284 failedAgent1280 failedThe agent runs in staging against the same work until its runs are clean. You compare the records, not promises.
- 04
Retire the bot
DecommissionedInvoice posting botretired✓VM released✓Licence freedSwitch the process over, free the machine and the license, and move to the next one.
05FAQ
Common questions
Do we have to rip out our RPA platform first?
No. Migration is per process. Bots that behave keep running; the ones that break move to agents first. The platforms retire when the last useful bot does.
What happens to our bot machines?
You stop needing them. Agents run in browser sessions in your own cloud account — nothing to license per machine, patch, or leave running overnight.
Our processes are documented as RPA flows. Is that wasted?
No — those flows are excellent task descriptions. They tell the agent what the job is; the agent supplies the how, which is the part that kept breaking.
Can it handle attended automation too?
Yes. An agent can run a task on demand for a person, pause for their input or approval mid-run, and hand back the result — without a bot installed on their laptop.
How do we trust it more than the bots?
You can see more of it. Every run is recorded step by step with screenshots and its cost, exceptions stop and ask instead of failing silently, and approvals gate anything you choose.
Retire the bot that pages you every month.
Thirty minutes: bring your most fragile RPA process, and we'll show an agent doing it — through a UI change, without a selector in sight.
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