Most tickets are questions
A large share of service-desk volume is a policy question that is already documented somewhere nobody can find.
HR & IT service desk
The service desk that answers before it ticketing
HR policy, leave and payroll questions are answered from your own handbook. IT requests are resolved or ticketed in ServiceNow or Jira, and the status is tracked back to the employee automatically.
- 11 ITSM connectors plus a universal adapter
- SSO across 8+ identity providers with SCIM
- HR-IT vertical pack included
Illustrative interface. Ticket numbers, categories and counts are sample data, not a performance claim. The screen shows an employee-request workflow on the flow designer canvas: a trigger on a Slack or Teams message, intent classification, a branch on whether the request can be resolved immediately, three parallel branches for answering from the handbook, running a workflow or creating a ticket, and a final node that pushes the status back to the employee — alongside a created ServiceNow ticket carrying the transcript, extracted entities and the named approver.
The problem in your world
An internal service desk is measured on tickets, but most of the volume was never a ticket. It was a question with a documented answer nobody could find.
Employees ask in Slack and Teams
The channel your team monitors is rarely the channel employees actually use.
Ticket status is a second ticket
"Any update on my request" generates as much load as the original request.
From the policy question to the ticket
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HR policy self-service
Leave, payroll, benefits, expense, travel and conduct policy questions answered from your handbook with the clause cited.
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IT request handling
Password resets, access requests, software provisioning and hardware issues resolved by workflow or ticketed automatically.
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Ticket creation and status
Tickets created with full context, either natively or in ServiceNow and Jira Service Management, with proactive status updates back to the employee.
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Onboarding support
New-joiner guidance, document collection and system-access requests through a structured flow.
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Slack and Teams access
Employees ask where they already are, and the same agent answers.
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Escalation with context
Anything the agent can't resolve reaches a human with the full history, not a one-line summary.
Capabilities that matter here
Six parts of the platform carry an internal service desk. Each is a page in its own right, and none of them is a separate licence.
Knowledge grounding
Hybrid retrieval with citations and a groundedness gate before the agent answers. Knowledge & groundingServiceNow and Jira connectors
11 ITSM and helpdesk connectors plus a universal adapter for the tool nobody else connects to. Helpdesk integrationsSlack and Teams integration
The same agent answers in the channel employees already use, with the same knowledge and the same record. Messaging integrationsWorkflow automation
100+ nodes, 50+ triggers, 35+ templates — API calls, branching and approvals around the conversation. Automation & workflowsNative ticketing
Native tickets plus 11 ITSM connectors and a universal adapter for any tool. Ticketing & casesAnalytics
76 reports, custom dashboards, topic mining and full-text conversation search. Analytics & reportingAn internal desk is still a privacy surface
Employee records are personal data, and a service desk touches payroll, health and conduct. These are the controls that decide whether IT signs it off.
ITSM
11 ITSM connectors plus a universal adapter, so the tool you already run stays the system of record.
Identity
SSO across 8+ identity providers with SCIM provisioning, and 300+ RBAC permissions with resource-scoped grants.
Privacy
PII detection and redaction across transcripts, logs, exports and analytics.
Isolation
Row-level tenant isolation on 231 tables, with regional hosting and per-tenant retention.
Regional hosting with per-tenant retention, so employee records stay in the jurisdiction your HR policy names. The HR-IT vertical pack ships pre-built agents, knowledge structure, compliance templates and workflows, all activated in one click.
The proof we will not invent
We publish outcome figures only with the customer's written approval, so this slot stays empty until one is signed off. In the meantime the mechanism above is the honest version.
Customer story
Deep dive: the ticket that never had to exist
When the answer is in the handbook, the agent gives it and closes the loop. When it isn't, a ticket is created in ServiceNow or Jira with the transcript, the extracted entities and the approver attached. The status is then pushed back to the employee without them asking. Ticketing & casesWhere to go next
Neighbouring operations that run on the same platform, with the same record behind them.
Contact Centre
Retire the menu tree, unify every channel into one queue, and give supervisors a live floor. Contact CentreEducation
Admissions enquiries, application status, fee queries and student support around the clock. EducationGovernment
Citizen self-service in 22 Indian languages: schemes, eligibility, status and grievance intake. GovernmentThe platform underneath
Everything on this page is the OptiML CX Platform configured for HR & IT Service Desk, not a separate product. These are the modules it leans on.
Book a working session
See it handle one of your real conversations
Bring a call recording, a policy document or a WhatsApp thread from your own operation. We will ground an agent in it and run it live on the call — not a canned demo.
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- A working agent grounded in your content
- No slide deck unless you want one
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