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Breathe HR

Syncs employee records, holiday requests, and performance reviews into your operations tools and automates the onboarding checklist for every new hire.

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Why use Ceven?

  1. AI native Breathe HR integration

    • Describe the outcome and Ceven picks the right Breathe HR calls, fills the parameters, and checks the result.
    • Structured, agent friendly tool schemas so each call runs reliably instead of by guesswork.
    • Rich coverage for reading, writing, and querying your Breathe HR data, across all 50 of its actions.

  2. Managed auth

    • Built in OAuth with automatic token refresh and rotation.
    • One place to manage, scope, and revoke Breathe HR access.
    • Per user and per environment credentials instead of shared keys.

  3. Agent optimized design

    • Actions are tuned from real success and error rates so reliability climbs over time.
    • Full execution logs so you always know what ran in Breathe HR, when, and on whose behalf.
    • The agent pauses and asks when Breathe HR is unclear instead of plowing ahead.

  4. Enterprise grade security

    • Fine grained access so you control which agents and people can reach Breathe HR.
    • Least privilege by default, read scopes first and only the writes a workflow needs.
    • A full audit trail of every Breathe HR action to support review and sign off.

Supported tools

Every action Ceven's agents can run on Breathe HR, and when to use it.

Create employee
Use this to add a new staff member to the system. Provide name, email, and start date to initialize the profile.
Update employee
Modify existing employee details such as job title, department, or manager reporting lines.
Get employee details
Pull the full profile of a specific staff member including contact info and employment terms.
List all employees
Retrieve a complete list of staff members to audit head count or sync a company directory.
Request holiday
Submit a time off request on behalf of an employee for specific dates.
Approve holiday
Change a pending holiday request to approved. Use this to automate approval based on external calendar availability.
Get absence records
Pull all recorded absences for a user or department within a specific date range.
Create performance review
Initialize a new review cycle for an employee and assign the relevant reviewer.
Get review results
Extract the scores and comments from a completed performance review for analysis.
Search employees
Find staff members by name, email, or department to get their unique ID.
Add document
Upload a contract or certification to an employee file for compliance tracking.
List documents
Retrieve a list of all files attached to an employee record to check for missing signatures.

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Frequently asked questions

Ceven follows a strict principle of least privilege when accessing your HR data. When you connect Breathe HR, the agent only accesses the fields required to execute your specific workflow. All data transferred between Breathe HR and Ceven is encrypted in transit using TLS and encrypted at rest using AES 256. We do not store permanent copies of your employee records in our own database; we use the Breathe HR API to fetch real time data and pass it to your destination tool. You can audit every single API call the agent makes in the activity log to see exactly which employee record was accessed and why.
Yes. You can build a workflow where a trigger in your recruiting tool tells Ceven to create the employee in Breathe HR. Once the profile exists, the agent can use the write actions to assign a standard set of onboarding tasks and documents. It can then move outside of Breathe HR to create a company email, invite the user to a project management board, and send a welcome email. The agent monitors the status of these tasks in Breathe HR and can send reminders to the new hire or their manager if a mandatory document remains unsigned after three days.
Ceven can be configured to listen for status changes on holiday requests. If a request moves from pending to declined, the agent can trigger a notification to the employee via Slack or email to let them know. It can also automatically free up any blocked time on a shared team calendar that was tentatively held for that absence. This ensures that the communication loop is closed immediately without the manager having to send a separate manual message after clicking the decline button in the Breathe HR dashboard.
Ceven can read and write to custom fields provided they are properly configured in your Breathe HR account settings. When the agent pulls an employee record, it retrieves the standard schema plus any additional metadata fields you have added for your business needs. This allows you to automate workflows based on specific internal data, such as equipment IDs or specialized certifications. If you add a new custom field after the integration is active, you may need to refresh the agent context to ensure the model recognizes the new field name and data type.
You should be aware that Breathe HR imposes specific API rate limits to ensure platform stability. If you attempt to sync thousands of employee records or update hundreds of profiles in a single burst, you may encounter a 429 Too Many Requests error. Ceven handles this by implementing an exponential backoff strategy, meaning the agent will automatically pause and retry the request after a short delay. For very large bulk updates, we recommend scheduling the workflow to run in batches over several hours to avoid hitting these limits and ensuring a smooth synchronization process.
Ceven can analyze performance by pulling historical review data from Breathe HR. By extracting scores from multiple review cycles for the same employee, the agent can generate a trend report that highlights growth or areas of decline. You can ask the agent to compare these trends across different departments to identify high performing teams or systemic training gaps. Since the agent can combine this with data from other tools, it can correlate performance scores with objective output metrics from your CRM or project management software for a more complete picture.
When an employee status is changed to inactive or terminated in Breathe HR, Ceven can trigger an offboarding workflow. The agent can automatically revoke access to connected SaaS tools, notify the payroll department to process the final check, and archive the user in your communication channels. This ensures that security gaps are closed the moment the HR record is updated. You can define exactly which tools are part of this offboarding sequence so that critical data is backed up before the account is deleted.
Ceven can act as a compliance monitor by regularly scanning employee files in Breathe HR. You can set up a workflow that checks for the presence of required documents, such as signed handbooks or right to work certifications. If a document is missing or has an expiration date that is approaching, the agent can automatically email the employee a request to upload the new version. It can then verify the upload and update a compliance tracker in a spreadsheet, ensuring your business stays audit ready without manual checking.

Alternatives to Breathe HR

Other tools that solve a similar problem. Ceven supports these too, so you can switch or run more than one at once.

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