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The agent
The system

Make Sierra act in Zendesk — safely

Sierra handles the conversation; Upware carries the outcome into Zendesk — ticket updated, attribution logged, SLA clock accounted for, with a full audit trail and no manual handoff.

Governed by policy & RBAC Full audit trail Outbound-only on-prem bridge No rip-and-replace
The gap

Sierra stops at the Zendesk boundary

Sierra's agents converse and resolve well, but completing the outcome means acting in the CRM, billing, and order systems behind the conversation.

Three ways to close it

Only one is governed

Sierra alone
Acts in ZendeskNo
Governedn/a
Auditedn/a
Custom API glue
Acts in ZendeskSort of
GovernedYou build it
AuditedYou build it
Sierra + Upware
Acts in ZendeskYes
GovernedPolicy + RBAC
AuditedEvery action
In practice

Refund resolved. Ticket closed. Automatically.

A customer tells Sierra their order arrived damaged and asks for a refund. Sierra confirms eligibility against the order system, then hands the action off to Upware. Upware replays the governed Zendesk skill: it creates a new ticket tagged 'damaged-goods', posts a public reply with the refund confirmation number, sets priority to high, and marks the ticket solved — all under the customer support agent's attributed role, with every step written to the audit trail. The customer gets the confirmation email Zendesk triggers automatically. The support team sees a fully documented ticket ready for any SLA or compliance review, and no one had to touch the queue.

The harness

AI to learn. Deterministic to execute.

Upware learns the process once and encodes it as a mostly-deterministic workflow: system interactions replay exactly, and any LLM steps are wrapped in policy, verification, and audit — so execution stays governed and drift-proof.

O
Observe & Learn
Records the real workflow once, across every system it touches.
G
Generate
Builds the API, data flow, and logic automatically — no integration project.
E
Encapsulate
Wraps it as a governed AI skill over secure MCP or API.
R
Run
Executes deterministically — RBAC, audit, and scale built in.
FAQ

Common questions

Zendesk already has APIs. Why not connect Sierra directly?
You could wire Sierra to Zendesk's REST API, but you'd still need to write, maintain, and govern every action — who can close a ticket, what gets attributed to whom, what the audit trail looks like. Upware records your actual Zendesk workflows, generates the integration, and wraps each action in RBAC and policy so the agent operates within the same guardrails your team does. You get a governed execution layer, not a raw API call.
How does attribution work when an AI agent is taking action in Zendesk?
Upware executes Zendesk actions under a provisioned service identity tied to the initiating agent and user session. Every ticket update, tag change, or note posts with the correct attributed role, and the full action sequence lands in Upware's audit trail alongside Zendesk's own event log. That means your SLA reporting and compliance reviews see who (or what) did what, and when — which matters when a ticket action is later questioned.
What happens if Zendesk changes its interface or we switch support tiers?
Upware learns Zendesk at the workflow level — UI events, web requests, and the screen itself — so it isn't brittle to minor interface changes the way a hand-coded script would be. If something breaks after a Zendesk update, you re-record that specific action rather than rebuilding an integration. For major plan changes that shift available features, the same record-and-encapsulate process applies: learn the new flow once, and the governed skill updates.

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See a governed action go from recorded workflow to live in days.

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