Ask Vera a question

What this achieves

Vera is the assistant built into Humavera. You can ask it how to do something in the product, or ask about your own records, your learning, and — if you manage people — your team.

Required role: Any signed-in user.

Steps

Open Vera. Select Vera (Cmd+J) at the top of any screen, press Cmd+J, or select Ask Vera on the button at the bottom of the page.
On the dashboard, use the Ask Vera box instead — the floating button is not shown there.
Type your question, or select one of the suggestions.
Read the answer.
Select New Chat to start a fresh conversation, or reopen an earlier one.

What you can ask

Two different kinds of question, and Vera handles both.

Option	Description
How do I do something	Questions about using Humavera, such as how to request time off or run a review cycle.
Questions about your data	Questions about your own records, your learning, your skills, and your team where you manage people.

Example: James Whitfield asks what his leave balance is and when his probation ends. Olivia Bennett asks what her team’s top skill gaps are and who is at risk of leaving.

Vera answers within what you can already see

Vera works from the data your role reaches. An employee gets their own records, a manager gets their team’s, an administrator gets the company’s. The suggestions differ per role for the same reason, and so does the line above the box: an employee is invited to ask about their records, leave, courses, or career, while a manager is invited to ask about their team.

Asking a question is not a way around a permission. Vera is not a separate route to the data — it reads what you could already open for yourself, so a question about something outside your role has nothing to answer from.

Example: Olivia Bennett asking about readiness gets her engineers’ figures. Priya Raman asking the same question gets the company’s, because that is what each of them can already reach.

Answers cost credits, and Vera warns you first

Some questions are answered straight away. A larger analysis costs AI credits, and Vera asks before spending them.

Option	Description
Proceed	Runs the analysis. The message names the estimated number of credits and your current balance.
Cancel	Stops without spending anything.
Purchase credits	Offered where your balance is short.
Notify admin	Offered instead where you cannot buy credits yourself. It tells your administrators you need more.

Example: Priya Raman is told an analysis will use a stated range of credits against her balance, and can decide before it runs rather than after.

Where credits have run out, Vera says so and points you at your administrator. Where something needs setting up before the analysis can work, it tells you what is missing rather than returning a thin answer.

An answer is something you check

Vera shows a confidence figure alongside its answers. Treat what it produces as a draft you read and judge, not as a decision or a record.

Example: an answer summarising Olivia Bennett’s team is her starting point for a conversation, not a substitute for having it.

Vera is occasionally unavailable, and says so when it is. Try again in a moment.

What happens next

Answers worth keeping can be saved to your library, where they are stored exactly as produced and can be found and downloaded later. Anything you act on happens in the section that owns it — Vera points you at a task, it does not carry it out.