plenaai assistant

Analytics and AI · Natural language in Portal, Teams and Slack

Ask with a message. Act with a message.

Access information in natural language through Plena Portal, Microsoft Teams and Slack. Query employee and document processes and initiate actions within permission and approval workflows.

Illustrative product scenario · No actual messages or documents are sent.
Features

What you can do with Plena AI Assistant

Highlights

  • Natural-language queries through Plena Portal, Microsoft Teams and Slack
  • Queries about leave balances and employee processes
  • Review of missing documents and relevant records
  • Starting requests or reminders within permissions and user approval
  • Access to archive information for source-based review

Process coordination with specialist agents

Specialist agents share tasks and coordinate multi-step HR operations with human approval; every action runs within permission limits and awaits user confirmation.

AI capabilities

Capabilities in use today

Presented at the PLENA HR Vision ’26 launch. Figures in examples are representative.

Employee · Microsoft Teams

The question employees ask HR most.

“How many days of annual leave do I have left?” The answer, then the request, in the same chat.

  1. Question“How many days of leave do I have left?” → “You have 14 days available.”
  2. Request“Create a leave request for 26–27 September.” → Ready; sent to your manager after you confirm.
  3. ConfirmRequest created and sent for manager approval.
HR manager · Slack

It doesn’t just answer; it moves processes.

Works within permission limits. Every action waits for your approval.

Channels: Plena Portal, Microsoft Teams, Slack. Identity, permissions, data and actions stay in Plena.

  1. Query“Show me the Monday starters with missing documents.”
  2. ResultTwo of three new starters have missing documents; items and owners listed.
  3. Action“Draft the reminders.” → Two reminders ready, awaiting approval to send.
Shared core

On the same data as every Plena product.

Organisation, permissions, notifications and mobile are shared across products.

Org chart with automatic hierarchy
Permissions and delegation
Audit log
Notification engine
Self-service with Plena Mobile (iOS and Android)
Approval flows and instant alerts