Kognitos
Automation platform where the process is written in plain English and executed deterministically, with exceptions paused for human guidance that the platform then applies on its own.
Kognitos is an automation platform built around the idea that a business user should be able to write the process down in plain English and have it run. A language model interprets the English; a symbolic engine executes it deterministically, so the same instruction produces the same steps every time rather than a fresh interpretation on each run.
Work is organized as automations inside workspaces. An automation starts as a draft, where it is written, run with test inputs and reviewed as a readable document, and publishing locks it as a version that can be reopened as a draft and published again. Published automations start from an email, on a schedule, from a webhook, or by hand, and each run can be inspected step by step alongside a diagram of the workflow.
When a run meets something it has not been taught — missing data, a failed connection, a case nobody covered — it raises an exception and stops to ask. A person answers in the Guidance Center, and that answer can be saved as a guide entry that the platform applies by itself next time, with guide approvals and rejections recorded in an audit log that sits separately from run history.
More than a hundred and thirty pre-built connectors reach systems including SAP, Oracle, NetSuite, Workday, Salesforce, ServiceNow, Microsoft 365 and Snowflake, and browser automation covers applications with nothing to integrate against, with the agent restricted to approved browser actions. A REST API and a hosted MCP server let other systems and AI clients list automations, start runs, inspect exceptions and manage schedules. It is delivered as a managed cloud with regional data residency, and the security attestations are published through a trust portal.
Vendor details
Canonical URL
https://kognitos.com
Category
Enterprise operations agent
Subcategory
Neurosymbolic process automation
Company status
independent
Use cases & customers
Primary use cases
Target customers
In practice
Your finance team handles a huge variety of invoices and purchase orders by hand, edge cases and all. In Kognitos the process is written in plain English and runs the same way every time, stopping to ask a person when it meets a case it has not been taught.
The system you need to work in has no way to integrate with it. Kognitos drives it through the browser instead, with the agent held to a set of approved actions rather than arbitrary code.
You want the same answer given twice to stick. When someone resolves an exception, that resolution can be saved as a guide entry, approved, and applied automatically the next time the same condition appears.
Agentic Index coverage score
9.5 / 14 capabilities · 68%
| Integrations & Tool Calling | Full |
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Kognitos ships more than a hundred and thirty pre-built connectors to enterprise systems, naming SAP, Oracle, NetSuite, Workday, Salesforce, ServiceNow, Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Snowflake and Databricks among them. The documentation carries a per-integration reference page for each, covering storage, messaging, document and line-of-business systems. Connections are described as self-healing when the target system changes, and automations take actions in those systems rather than only reading from them. Sourcekognitos.com/platformread 2026-09-17 |
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| Workflow Orchestration | Full |
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An automation is a published, versioned workflow. Drafts are built, tested and published, each publish creating a new locked major version, and the detail view carries a visual diagram of the workflow, the run history and the exceptions raised. Runs execute multi-step processes across the systems the connectors reach, and automations are organized into workspaces so they can be reused across teams. Sourcedocs.kognitos.com/guides/platform/automationsread 2026-09-17 |
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| Knowledge Grounding & RAG | Not documented |
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Documents are read and acted on: the documentation carries document, DOCX, CSV and email file integrations, a document automation type, and connectors to content systems such as Confluence, so data is extracted from files and used in a run. No index, retrieval layer, knowledge base or citation surface is documented, so nothing shows which sources can be indexed, refreshed and permissioned, or which documents influenced an output. Extraction stands in place of grounding rather than answering it. Sourcedocs.kognitos.com/guides/platform/integrationsread 2026-09-17 |
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| Human Oversight & Guardrails | Full |
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When an automation hits a condition it has not been taught to handle, it raises an exception and pauses to ask for help. The run does not proceed until a person supplies guidance, and the Guidance Center is where those requests are answered across automations. Guidance that is saved becomes a Troubleshooting Guide entry that auto-applies to future runs. Guide entries are governed rather than automatic, with guide approval granted and guide approval rejected recorded as audited governance actions in the Audit Log, so an approval sits at both the run and the policy layer. Sourcedocs.kognitos.com/guides/platform/automations/troubleshooting-guideread 2026-09-17 |
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| Security, Identity & Governance | Full |
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SOC 2 Type II reports, HIPAA attestations, GDPR addenda and ISO 27001 evidence are published on a continuous-release cadence through the Kognitos trust portal, the vendor states. It names the customer-facing controls alongside them: role-based access control with a documented roles and permissions model, identity integration with Azure AD or Entra, Okta and Google Workspace, encryption in transit and at rest, tenant isolation and key management. It also states a hard training boundary, that no customer prompts, documents or extracted values are used to train upstream foundation models. Sourcekognitos.com/about-usread 2026-09-17 |
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| Observability & Auditability | Full |
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Every run is inspectable step by step through the automation document and diagram views. The run list filters by status, date and trigger type, and a Performance Dashboard covers runs and exceptions. Separately from run history, an audit log records the actor (the person or system that performed an action), the event and the specific operation beneath it, including approval and governance actions. The audit log has filtering, a documented export, and rules for who can see what. Sourcedocs.kognitos.com/guides/administration/audit-logread 2026-09-17 |
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| Memory & State Persistence | Not documented |
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What persists between runs is a Troubleshooting Guide entry, a resolution saved from an exception that the platform checks and applies automatically the next time the same condition occurs. That is learning absorbed into the automation's own behavior, governed through guide approvals, rather than a memory layer. The documentation shows no memory store, no state carried across sessions for a user or an agent, and no surface for viewing, editing or deleting what an agent retains. Sourcedocs.kognitos.com/guides/platform/automations/troubleshooting-guideread 2026-09-17 |
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| Deployment & Data Residency | Partial |
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According to Kognitos, its architecture and security document covers regional data residency across North America, EMEA and Asia Pacific, alongside tenant isolation and key management. The documented application and MCP endpoints are regional hosts. The residency statement names three macro-regions without a way to select one, and no self-hosted, on-premises, private-cloud or customer-environment option is documented. Sourcekognitos.com/about-usread 2026-09-17 |
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| Prebuilt Agents, Templates & Packs | Partial |
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Pre-built workflow templates are offered for finance, healthcare, supply chain, human resources and IT, covering the most common starting points, Kognitos states. Only the domain families are named. No catalog page, enumerated template list or anything a buyer can browse and select from appears on the website or in the documentation. Sourcekognitos.com/platformread 2026-09-17 |
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| Triggers & Channel Coverage | Full |
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Three trigger types are documented for a published automation. An email trigger starts a run from an incoming message. A schedule runs the automation automatically and is available for automations without required inputs. A webhook lets an external system start a run and pass its data in as inputs. The run list can be filtered by trigger type, recorded per run as manual, email or webhook, so work reaches the automation without a person starting it. Sourcedocs.kognitos.com/guides/platform/automationsread 2026-09-17 |
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| Model Flexibility & Routing | Not documented |
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Kognitos runs its own neurosymbolic engine, where a language model interprets the English instruction and a symbolic engine executes it deterministically. No setting in the documentation lets a customer or administrator choose, route between or supply the model doing that interpretation. Language-model providers do appear in the integration directory, but that is an automation calling a model as a tool rather than choosing the model that runs the platform. Sourcedocs.kognitos.com/guides/platform/integrationsread 2026-09-17 |
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| APIs, SDKs & MCP Extensibility | Full |
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Kognitos publishes a REST API at a documented base URL with personal access token authentication and reference pages for automations, runs, exceptions, files, books, analytics, workspaces and organizations, including invoking a published automation and reading back a run. It also hosts its own MCP server at a documented URL over streamable HTTP, with OAuth 2.1 or API key authentication and named tools for listing automations, starting runs, inspecting exceptions and managing schedules. The Kognitos MCP Server page carries an explicit warning about connecting it to automations that ingest untrusted input. Sourcedocs.kognitos.com/guides/mcp/mcpread 2026-09-17 |
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| Testing, Debugging & Optimization | Partial |
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A draft is where a workflow is built, edited and tested. The documentation has the author review the automation document, then run and test it by providing inputs before publishing, and publishing creates a locked version that can be edited as a draft again. Testing with fixtures, mocks or datasets before production is not documented, nor is scoring output quality over time, and no regression suite appears in the documentation. Sourcedocs.kognitos.com/guides/platform/draftsread 2026-09-17 |
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| Browser & Computer Use | Full |
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Browser automation is documented as an integration in its own right, through the Browser and Browser Use integrations, used to reach applications that expose no interface to integrate against. The documentation describes the agent being confined to a restricted set of approved browser actions rather than arbitrary code execution. This is control of a real interface, and it is the route Kognitos names for legacy systems where a connector does not exist. Sourcedocs.kognitos.com/guides/platform/integrations/browserread 2026-09-17 |
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Recent platform changes
Kognitos launched Context Graph for Finance, a new foundation paired with specialized AI agents for accounting operations. Initially available for accounts payable, the graph encodes organizational structures such as vendors, invoices, and approval hierarchies to enable deterministic execution.
Bears on: Memory / state
View sourcePricing
Free to start; enterprise pricing quoted
What is public
Kognitos publishes a free way in and no prices. The platform page carries Start Free calls to action and no rate card, tier comparison or metering detail, and the site has no pricing page. Enterprise terms are quoted on request.
Billing mechanics
No published paid pricing. The platform page offers a Start Free entry point and routes everything else to contact, so paid terms, metering basis and tier structure are all quoted rather than published.
Sales call required
Mixed (some tiers require a call)
Commercial notes
Independent, venture-backed automation vendor selling into finance and back-office operations, with a free self-serve entry point and quoted enterprise pricing.
Key ambiguities
Kognitos has no pricing page. The platform page carries a Start Free entry point, but nothing states whether that is a permanent free tier or a trial, and no paid figure, tier ladder or metering basis is published.
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