Cover for the week
Monday morning, the operations lead asks who is off this week. Memtro lists the approved holiday and sickness from Breathe by person and dates, and the line manager for each, so cover can be arranged.
Breathe HR + Memtro
Who works here, who they report to and who is off this week.
Connect Breathe with your account's API key and Memtro reads the directory: each employee's job title, department, line manager, working pattern and start date, plus absences, sickness, training courses, locations and holiday allowances. Salary, bank details, date of birth and personal contact details are not read, and there is no sync. When you ask, and once an administrator has granted each action by name, it can approve, reject, book or cancel leave, record sickness and training, add a new starter and decide expense claims. Deleting a record is permanent, and approving a claim commits the company to pay it.
In Memtro
What you can do with Breathe HR in Memtro
Ask in plain English from chat, your editor, a scheduled job or your own agent. The model picks the right Breathe HR tool, reads what it needs, and answers with the source cited.
What it does
- 01Every employee's job title, department, division, location, line manager, working pattern and start date
- 02Who is off in any period, by employee, type or reason, cancelled requests left out
- 03Sickness records for a period with dates, days deducted, status and whether a fit note is needed
- 04Training courses by employee, status or name, with provider, hours, cost and expiry
- 05When asked and granted, approves or rejects leave requests with a reason the employee sees, books leave, cancels booked leave and records sickness or training
- 06When asked and granted, adds a new starter with directory details only, changes or permanently deletes sickness and training records, and approves or rejects expense claims, where approving commits the company to pay
Acts when asked
When you ask it to
These tools change something in Breathe HR. The model is told to use them only when you ask for exactly that, and an administrator grants each one by name to the teams that may use it; a personal connection acts only after its owner allows it.
- 01Approve a pending leave request
- 02Reject a pending leave request with a reason
- 03Book leave for an employee as a leave request
- 04Cancel an absence (booked leave), returning the days
- 05Record a sickness absence for an employee
- 06Change a sickness record (end date, status, type, reason)
- 07Delete a sickness record, permanently
- 08Add an employee with directory details only
- 09Record a training course for an employee
- 10Change a training record
- 11Delete a training record, permanently
- 12Approve or reject an expense claim (approving commits the company to pay it)
In practice
Ask it like you would a colleague
Once Breathe HR is connected, these are the kinds of things people ask. Plain questions, no syntax. If the answer lives partly in another system you have connected, Memtro looks there too.
Breathe HR + MemtroWho is off next week in the Finance team?
Who does Hannah Reid report to, and what is her working pattern?
Which sickness absences in the last 90 days still need a fit note?
Whose first-aid training expires before March?
Approve Tom Gallagher's holiday request for 2 to 6 December
Approving the holiday
Priya Shah, the office manager, asks Memtro to approve Tom Gallagher's pending holiday request for the first week of December. Memtro finds the request in Breathe and approves it, so the days are booked and taken from his allowance, recorded in Breathe as done by its API Employee.
Teams
Where it fits
The teams that lean on Breathe HR most, a question each of them asks, and what they connect beside it.
- People and onboardingThe answers a new hire would otherwise ask around forNew starter, Manager, People lead, Hiring manager“How do I request a laptop, and who approves it?”Used alongside Confluence, Notion, Google Drive, Slack, Google Calendar and 5 more.
- LeadershipOne question across the whole companyFounder, Chief executive, Department head, Board member“What happened with our top ten accounts this week, and is anything at risk?”Used alongside HubSpot, Help Scout, Xero, Stripe, Linear and 6 more.
- OperationsMonitors and digests that run themselvesOperations lead, Analyst, Team manager, Administrator“List my jobs”Used alongside Help Scout, Stripe, Xero, Postgres, ShipEngine and 8 more.
Better together
Works with
A record in Breathe HR is rarely the whole story. Connect the systems that hold the rest and Memtro checks them together, then remembers what it learned so the next question starts further along.
- Finance and commerceBreathe HR with XeroInvoices, bills, contacts and reports, answered in plain English with figures cited to Xero.
- Finance and commerceBreathe HR with StripeCustomers, charges, invoices and subscriptions through a restricted key.
- Finance and commerceBreathe HR with FellohBookings, payments, refunds, chargebacks, supplier payments and payouts from the travel payments platform.
- Work managementBreathe HR with JiraJQL search, issue details and projects from Jira Cloud.
- Work managementBreathe HR with Clio ManageAsk the matter: its client, its fee earner, the time on it and what is still unbilled.
- Work managementBreathe HR with LinearIssues, projects and teams, synced hourly into memory.
- Email, calendar and chatBreathe HR with GmailSearch and read mail so the last thread with a customer is one question away, and send the reply when you ask.
- Email, calendar and chatBreathe HR with SlackSearch messages, read channel history and threads, post when you ask, and answer when mentioned.
- Email, calendar and chatBreathe HR with Google CalendarMeetings in a window, event details, and the next two weeks synced into memory, and events it can create, change or cancel when you ask.
Also in People and HR
Using something else for the same job, or both? Each connector has its own tools; connect as many as you like.
BambooHR- Personio
- Microsoft Entra ID
- Google Workspace
- HiBob
- Greenhouse
Ashby
Lever
Workable
Deel
Factorial HR
Pinpoint
Recruitee- Teamtailor
CharlieHR
Deputy
Humaans- Connecteam
JazzHR- Rippling
- Sage HR
SmartRecruiters- Staffology Payroll
- Bonusly
Lattice- Canvas LMS
- Moodle
15Five
Homerun- Hubstaff
Jibble
Leapsome
LearnUpon
Planday- Remote
7shifts
Timetastic
Recruit CRM
Setup
How to connect
Connect withAPI key
- 1
In Breathe open Configure → Settings → Integrations → API Setup. An account admin has to enable the API first, and the production key starts prod-
- 2
In Memtro open Connections → Breathe HR, paste the API key and connect. For the Breathe sandbox enter https://api.sandbox.breathehr.info/v1 as the Base URL with the sandbox- key
- 3
Memtro only reads until an administrator grants an action by name, such as approving leave or recording sickness
- 4
Ask who is off next week
Also works from
Chat in the dashboard, the OpenAI-compatible API, scheduled jobs, and any MCP client: Claude Code, OpenCode, Cursor, Claude Desktop. The Breathe HR tools are the same everywhere.
FAQ
Questions
Can Memtro change anything in Breathe HR?+
Only when you ask, and only what it has been granted: approve a pending leave request; reject a pending leave request with a reason; book leave for an employee as a leave request; cancel an absence (booked leave), returning the days; record a sickness absence for an employee; change a sickness record (end date, status, type, reason); delete a sickness record, permanently; add an employee with directory details only; record a training course for an employee; change a training record; delete a training record, permanently; approve or reject an expense claim (approving commits the company to pay it). Every other tool reads, searches or lists. The Connections page labels the tools that act, an administrator grants each one by name to the teams that may use it, and a personal connection acts only after its owner allows it.
Who can use a Breathe HR connection?+
A personal connection serves only your own requests. A shared connection serves the organisation: everyone, or only the teams an admin chooses. Admins can always add shared connections; other members need the permission.
Does Memtro store my Breathe HR data?+
Credentials are encrypted at rest. Tool results are cached briefly so agent loops do not repeat identical calls, and the facts the model extracts are saved to your organisation's memory with provenance (system, record and link) so they can be checked and superseded.
How do I connect Breathe HR?+
API key. In Breathe open Configure → Settings → Integrations → API Setup. An account admin has to enable the API first, and the production key starts prod-.
Connect Breathe HR in a few minutes
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