Request time off
Check the balance and policy, then file the request in Workday.
The AI operating layer for Workday.
Athena runs People, IT and Finance work inside your Workday instance, from Slack or Teams, no login required.
Thinking... Thought for 4 sec
- Checking your time-off balance and policy
- Reviewing the Workday holiday calendar
- Preparing your request for 10–14 Aug
Request Time Off Sarah Chen Dates 10–14 Aug
Type Holiday
Comment August holiday
The teams building on Athena
Workday without the Workday UI.
Athena sits on top of the Workday you already run. Employees just ask, and it’s done — no forms, no logins, no opening Workday. Your permissions, processes and governance stay exactly as they are.
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- Permissions
- Business processes
- Approvals
- Governance
Approximately 80% Routine requests resolved in Slack or Teams. Before they ever reach the People team.
One front door. Every system behind it.
Sarah Chen Checking PTO balance and availability…
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Workday People & HR data
Zendesk Cases & support
DocuSign Documents & signatures
Calendar Schedules & availability
Pave Compensation & equity
What Athena can do.
From time off to onboarding, across the tools your team already uses.
Add a new hire from your ATS
Pull the hired candidate’s details from your ATS and create their Workday record.
Answer a policy question
Pull the answer from your Notion knowledge base and reply in the thread.
Manage benefits & beneficiaries
Add a dependent or update beneficiaries without opening Workday.
Keep the People wiki in sync
Update Notion pages automatically when org data changes in Workday.
Generate a document
Form-fill a letter when Workday has no template, then attach it to the case.
How it works
One request, start to finish.
1
Ask in Slack or Teams
An employee makes the request in plain language, from where they already work. No login, no new tab.
2
Athena runs it in Workday
It executes the transaction under that person’s own permissions. Where Workday has no write API, the job finishes in an adjacent system.
3
One case closes, fully logged
The work completes across every system it touches and comes back as one governed case with a full audit trail.
Escalation
When it needs a human, it hands off to the right team.
Anything ambiguous, or that needs judgement, opens as a case for the right team — with the conversation, the employee’s context and what Athena already tried, attached.
- Routed by team responsibility, not a shared queue
- The full case travels with it — conversation, context, policy checked
- Private notes and reassignment when it belongs elsewhere
I don’t agree with my probation review outcome. Who can I talk to?
- Routing to relevant team People Partners
- Auto-assigning this request
Sam Mercer
Hi Sarah, I'd be happy to support you with this. Let’s setup a call and talk through it.
Permissions
Every action runs as the person who asked.
Athena resolves each request against that individual’s own Workday permissions, down to the field. It can never see or do more than they can, and every action is logged against them.
Acting as Sarah Chen Permissions resolved from Workday
Security
Fully traceable, audit-ready decisions.
Every decision Athena makes is logged, attributed to a named person, and traceable back to the record it changed.
Immutable audit trail
Every action captured with the actor, timestamp and the record it touched.
Traceable to a named user
Every decision maps back to the person who asked, never a shared service account.
Encrypted, with SSO
Data encrypted in transit and at rest. SAML and HRIS single sign-on and provisioning.
Built for enterprise.
Designed for teams that need control, traceability, and real-world reliability.
Enterprise security
SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 certified. GDPR compliant. Your data never leaves your control.
Granular permissions
Role-based access ensures employees only see what they’re entitled to. Admins control exactly what each agent can and can’t do.
Full audit trails
Every agent action, every case, every decision — logged and traceable. Ready for your next compliance review.
Dedicated support
A named customer success manager from day one — through onboarding, launch, and beyond.
See Athena in action.
Book a 30-minute demo and we'll run it on your team's actual requests.
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