Help center

Plain-language guides to using Ceven — the Slack bot, integrations, HR data, dashboards, and the things that go wrong.

Getting started

Getting started with Ceven

From signup to a working answer in under five minutes — what to do first, what to expect, and which tools work without any setup.

Updated April 2026
Slack

Using Ceven inside Slack

@-mention the bot anywhere or DM it directly. Threads carry context. Here's the full surface — HR, finance, charts, fast paths.

Updated April 2026
Integrations

Connecting a provider

Stripe, Google, QuickBooks, HubSpot, Linear, and 30 others. How to connect, why something might say 'not connected', and what each unlocks.

Updated April 2026
Integrations

Stripe — what the bot can answer

MRR, subscriptions, invoices, balance, payouts, customers, disputes, refunds — 25 read-only capabilities, no reconnect required.

Updated April 2026
Integrations

Google Workspace — Gmail, Calendar, Drive

Send and search email, list calendar events, search Drive files. What the bot will and won't do without explicit confirmation.

Updated April 2026
HR

HR data isn't loading

The bot says it can't access your headcount. Here's the one-step fix for the legacy-tenant edge case.

Updated April 2026
HR

Headcount, employees, and org structure

How the bot answers people questions — group-by, manager chains, recent hires, department snapshots, and disambiguation.

Updated April 2026
HR

PTO — balances, requests, and policies

How PTO data is stored, what the bot can read, and what's gated to the dashboard.

Updated April 2026
Dashboards

Charts and saved dashboards

Render an inline chart with one ask. Save a dashboard that refreshes itself. The full lifecycle.

Updated April 2026
Troubleshooting

Common issues and how to fix them

Bot says 'not connected' but you connected it. PTO returns 0. Headcount looks wrong. Step-by-step fixes for the usual suspects.

Updated April 2026
Privacy & security

Data & privacy — what the bot can see

What data Ceven reads, where it's stored, what's logged, and what's never shared across tenants.

Updated April 2026