Sana is a polished AI agent platform, now part of Workday and increasingly built around it. Zenning AI is an independent AI employee inside Slack and Microsoft Teams, acting on live data across all your tools.
Zenning AI is an all-in-one AI platform with an AI employee that lives in Slack and Microsoft Teams. It connects to your business tools, searches across everything your team uses, takes notes in your meetings, and runs automations triggered by real-world events.
Sana is an AI agent and enterprise search platform from Stockholm, acquired by Workday in late 2025. It combines chat, agents, a meeting notetaker, and knowledge search, used primarily in its own app.
Zenning AI and Sana, side by side.
| Feature | Zenning AI | Sana |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | Zenning AIYes: All-in-one AI platform: an AI employee in Slack and Teams, plus AI workspaces, enterprise search, a meeting note taker, and a no-code AI Employee builder. | SanaPartly: AI agent and enterprise search platform, acquired by Workday and increasingly focused on HR and finance work in the Workday ecosystem. |
| Where it lives | Zenning AIYes: Inside Slack and Microsoft Teams, where your team already works. | SanaPartly: Primarily its own web and mobile app. Slack is a bolt-on bot, and a full Teams chat experience is not clearly available. |
| Integrations | Zenning AIYes: Connects to your business tools through the App Directory with one-click OAuth and real read/write access. | SanaPartly: Claims 100+ app connections, but data syncs on a 24-hour cycle and write actions cover a smaller subset of tools. |
| Enterprise search | Zenning AIYes: Built in. Ask one question and get answers across every connected app and file. | SanaYes: Genuine enterprise search with citations across connected apps and documents. |
| AI Employee builder | Zenning AIYes: Build AI employees that trigger on external events — new leads, inbound email, schedules, webhooks — and run the work end to end. | SanaPartly: No-code agents with scheduled workflows and email triggers, but broader event-triggered automation lives on the Workday side of the product. |
| Meeting note taker | Zenning AIYes: Built in. Joins your calls, captures notes and action items, and shares them with the team. | SanaYes: Built-in notetaker for Zoom, Teams, and Meet with summaries and action items. |
| Deliverables | Zenning AIYes: Reports, documents, and full web apps via the AI Site Builder. | SanaPartly: Documents, decks, dashboards, and reports — but no deployed web apps or sites. |
| Memory | Zenning AIYes: Persistent company memory shared across the whole workspace. | SanaPartly: Stores meeting and document knowledge, but no prominent shared company memory across the workspace. |
| Automation | Zenning AIYes: Both scheduled jobs and event-triggered workflows run automatically without manual prompting. | SanaPartly: Scheduled workflows and email triggers; richer system-event automation is reserved for Workday products. |
| Team features | Zenning AIYes: One shared AI employee for the whole workspace with shared context, memory, and automations. | SanaYes: Workspaces, shared agents, roles and permissions, usage analytics. |
| Actions | Zenning AIYes: Takes real actions across connected tools, not just suggestions. | SanaPartly: Takes real actions in a subset of tools, with every write requiring manual approval, on data that can be up to a day old. |
| Security | Zenning AIYes: Enterprise-grade security with credentials stored server-side, never exposed to the model. | SanaYes: SOC 2 Type 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, SSO and SCIM. |
| Pricing & setup | Zenning AIYes: Free to start. Connect Slack and get going in minutes. | SanaYes: Free tier available, then per-user pricing; enterprise features gated behind sales. |
Since Workday acquired Sana, the product’s centre of gravity has shifted towards HR and finance inside the Workday ecosystem — self-service agents, Workday data, and Workday-side automations. That is a strong offer if you are a Workday enterprise.
Zenning is independent and built around your stack: CRM, billing, docs, analytics, support — connected with real read/write access and working for every team, not one department’s system of record.
Sana’s primary experience is its own app; Slack is a bolt-on bot, and its integrations sync on a 24-hour cycle. Zenning lives natively in Slack and Microsoft Teams and works against live data in your connected tools, so the answer you get reflects your business now — and the follow-up action happens in the same thread.
Sana matches Zenning in two areas — enterprise search and a meeting notetaker — and both are genuinely good. The gap is what happens next.
Zenning’s AI Employee builder triggers on real-world events across your tools — new leads, inbound email, webhooks, schedules — and runs the workflow end to end, with approval controls on sensitive actions. It also ships deliverables up to full web apps, not just documents and decks.
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Sana is an AI agent and search platform now owned by Workday, used mainly in its own app with a Slack bot on the side. Zenning is an independent AI employee that lives in Slack and Microsoft Teams, works on live data across your connected tools, and runs event-triggered automations end to end.
Free to start. Connect Slack and get going in minutes.