Cormie
Cormie is the AI assistant built into Corma. You ask a question in your own words, it reads your workspace and answers, and it can carry out actions for you once you confirm them. This page covers what Cormie is, where to find it, and what it cannot do yet.
What is Cormie?
Cormie is a chat assistant inside Corma with access to your workspace data and to Corma's own features. Instead of learning where every page and filter lives, you describe what you want and Cormie does the looking for you.
Three things separate it from a general-purpose chatbot:
It reads your real workspace. Applications, users, licenses, spend, groups, workflows and action history are live data, not a generic knowledge base.
It can act, not just answer. Cormie carries out the same actions you can carry out yourself in the interface, and always asks you to confirm first.
It knows the product. Cormie searches Corma's published help documentation, so it can answer "how do I do X in Corma" and point you to the source.
Cormie can only do what you can do. It acts as the person in the chat, with your permissions, not as a separate service account. If you cannot revoke a license yourself, Cormie cannot revoke it for you.
Where to find Cormie
Cormie is the Overview page. It opens on a greeting, a message box, and cards showing what Corma has noticed about your workspace, such as people who have left but still hold live licenses.
There is no separate Cormie entry in the left sidebar. To leave a conversation and return to the rest of Corma, use Overview.
Along the top sit your workspace counters: Identities, Applications, Accounts, Connectors, Extension and OS agent. Each is a link, so clicking Applications opens your Applications page.
The message box
The box reads Ask anything, or type @ to reference an app, user or workflow. Six controls sit underneath it.
Control | What it opens |
|---|---|
+ | Actions and workflows, a short list of the jobs people ask for most |
Sliders icon | Workspace context, the standing guidance Cormie follows |
Bookmark icon | Saved insights, the analyses you pinned from the chat |
Skills | The reusable instructions available to Cormie |
Paperclip | Attach a file to the conversation |
Arrow | Send your message |
At the bottom of the page sit Chat history and New chat. Once you are inside a conversation, New chat also appears in the top right.
What Cormie can do today
Answer questions about your workspace, with tables, a written reading of the numbers, and graphs when they help.
Carry out actions such as starting an onboarding, running a workflow, marking an app as unauthorized or sending an access review, always behind a confirmation.
Answer questions about Corma itself, drawing on the published documentation and naming its source.
Work to your rules, through workspace context, skills and attached files.
Everything Cormie does is recorded and attributed to Cormie alongside the person who confirmed it, so you can always review what was done on your behalf.
How to ask Cormie a question
Cormie answers questions about your own workspace: licenses, applications, users, spend, provisioning history. This page shows how to ask, how to read the answer, and how to keep it.
Ask a question
Click Overview in the left sidebar. Cormie opens on the greeting and the message box.
Type your question in plain language, the way you would ask a colleague. You do not need to know which page holds the answer, or to phrase it the way Corma words things.
Examples that work today: How many applications are there? · Show me the unused licenses · Give me my top apps by usage · Which provisioning actions were unsuccessful?
If you want a graph, ask for one in your question.
Press Enter, or click the arrow, to send. Cormie shows what it is doing while it works, then writes the answer.
Cormie answers in the language you write in, so you can ask in French and get a French answer.
Reading the answer
An answer usually comes in three parts.
The data. A table of the figures you asked for. Names in the table are links, so clicking an application or a person opens that record in Corma.
The reading. A short paragraph saying what the numbers mean, not just what they are. It will point out, for example, that two applications account for most of your unused seats and are therefore the place to start.
The next step. A closing question offering the obvious follow-up, such as pulling the license cost to estimate savings.
If you asked for a graph, Cormie draws it below the answer with its own title. A download button sits in the top right corner of the graph.
Keeping an answer
Under every answer sits Save as insight. Click it to pin that analysis so you can find it again from the bookmark icon in the message box.
A saved insight is a snapshot of the numbers as they were on the day you saved it. For today's figures, ask Cormie the question again.
Coming back to a conversation
Every conversation is kept.
Chat history, at the bottom of the page, lists your earlier conversations. Click one to reopen it.
New chat, next to it and also in the top right once you are inside a conversation, starts a fresh thread.
Cormie lives on the Overview page, so moving to another page in Corma leaves the conversation. Use Chat history to pick it back up.
How to have Cormie carry out an action
Cormie can do things in Corma, not only answer questions about it. Nothing happens until you confirm it on a card. This page shows how to ask for an action, what the confirmation card looks like, and how to back out.
Actions in the + menu
Click + in the message box to see the jobs Cormie handles most often:
Start an onboarding
Run a workflow
Mark an app as unauthorized
Send an access review
Draft an email to app owner
Generate a SaaS report
You do not have to use this list. Asking for the same thing in your own words works just as well.
Ask for an action
Pick an action from the + menu, or type what you want Cormie to do.
Answer Cormie's questions. Before proposing anything, Cormie checks the current state in Corma and explains what your instruction actually means in Corma.
Confirm that you want the change proposed. Cormie builds the card and tells you the change is awaiting your confirmation.
Review the Confirm action card. It describes the change, and the Will send line lists each field with its new value, so you can see exactly what Corma will receive.
Click Confirm to carry out the change, or Dismiss to cancel it.
Nothing is written to your workspace until you click Confirm. Reading the card, closing the panel or walking away all leave your data untouched.
Backing out
Click Dismiss on the Confirm action card.
Check that a Dismissed card now sits above the message box, with the same description and a Close button. A line in the conversation also confirms that nothing ran.
Click Close to clear the card.
To try again, rephrase your request in the message box. Dismissing does not end the conversation, so you can ask straight away.
What gets recorded
Every action Cormie carries out is recorded and attributed to Cormie alongside you, the person who confirmed it.
Cormie acts with your permissions, not its own. It can only carry out an action you could carry out yourself in Corma.
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