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View Demo (4:00) 🛒Athena Design System
🎨Inherited palette
Every surface uses the site's own tokens — headline blue for primary actions and user bubbles, logo green for status, accents and success states, and the hero's soft blue gradient for the header.
💬Proactive, not intrusive
A dismissible teaser card appears after 4 seconds — the pattern Intercom, Drift and HubSpot converge on — then never re-appears once dismissed (remembered per session).
⚡Suggested intents
Chip-style quick replies surface the top HR asks (plan comparison, life events, HSA balance, open a case) so employees never start from a blank box.
🃏Rich answer cards
Plan comparisons, deadlines and ISD case confirmations render as structured cards with actions — the Workday / ServiceNow enterprise-assistant pattern — rather than long text.
📱Responsive by default
400×660 floating panel on desktop; edge-to-edge full-screen with safe-area padding under 720px. Resize this window to see it switch.
♿Accessible & trusted
ARIA live region for replies, keyboard-operable launcher, visible focus ring, thumbs feedback on every answer, and a persistent "secure / HIPAA-aware" footer note.
🎙️Voice to text
Tap the mic to dictate — live interim transcript, waveform state, auto-send on pause. Uses the browser's Web Speech API (Chrome, Edge, Safari) and degrades to a typed prompt elsewhere. Language follows the EN / ES / FR selector.
🔊Read replies aloud
Per-message speaker button plus a global "read aloud" toggle in the menu — the ServiceNow / Microsoft Copilot accessibility pattern for hands-free HR help.
⌛Streaming & agentic status
Replies stream token-by-token with a caret, and the typing state shows what Athena is doing ("Checking your 2026 elections…") — the ChatGPT / Copilot expectation employees now bring to any assistant.
📎Document upload + IntelliVerify
Real file picker (PDF / image), attachment chip with size, then a live verification card that walks through OCR → match → approve — exactly how dependent verification lands in ISD.
📚Citations & trust signals
Every policy answer carries source chips (SPD page, plan document, IRS limit) so employees and auditors can see where the answer came from — the biggest differentiator vs. generic chat widgets.
⭐CSAT, persistence, expand
Star rating with optional comment, conversation restored after page reload (session-scoped), copy-to-clipboard on any reply, an expanded desktop mode for long plan comparisons, and a tab-title unread counter.
| Best-in-market audit criterion | Benchmark (who does it best) | Athena v2 |
|---|---|---|
| Proactive, dismissible teaser | Intercom, Drift, HubSpot — timed nudge, remembered dismissal | ✓ Met |
| Launcher with unread badge + pulse | Intercom Messenger, Zendesk | ✓ Met |
| Header: identity, AI disclosure, live status | Zendesk AI agents (EU AI Act transparency), Intercom Fin | ✓ Met — "AI" badge, online dot |
| Suggested intents / quick replies | Fin, Ada, Workday Assistant | ✓ Met |
| Rich structured cards with actions | ServiceNow Now Assist, Workday, Microsoft Copilot | ✓ Met — plan card, ISD case, verify card |
| Streaming responses + agentic status | ChatGPT, Copilot, Fin | ✓ Added in v2 |
| Voice input & read-aloud | Copilot, Gemini, ServiceNow mobile | ✓ Added in v2 |
| File upload with in-chat verification | Zendesk, Ada; HR-specific: Leena AI, Moveworks | ✓ Added in v2 |
| Source citations on answers | Fin, Moveworks, Glean | ✓ Added in v2 |
| Per-message feedback → escalation | Fin, Ada | ✓ Met |
| Human handoff with context transfer | Intercom, Zendesk, ServiceNow | ✓ Met — ISD case with transcript attached |
| Conversation persistence across reloads | Intercom, Drift | ✓ Added in v2 (session-scoped) |
| CSAT at conversation end | Zendesk, Intercom | ✓ Added in v2 |
| Multilingual | Ada, Moveworks, Leena AI | ✓ EN / ES / FR selector (UI + voice locale) |
| Mobile full-screen with safe areas | Intercom, Zendesk | ✓ Met |
| Keyboard & screen-reader support | WCAG 2.2 AA; Zendesk is the reference | ✓ Focus rings, Esc, aria-live, labels, reduced-motion |
| Privacy / data-handling disclosure | Zendesk, Workday | ✓ Met — in-thread privacy note + link |
| Authenticated personalization (SSO) | Workday, ServiceNow employee portals | ◐ Simulated — wire to SuccessFactors identity in production |
| Live agent typing / presence, chat history list | Intercom, Zendesk | ◐ Not in scope for a marketing-site widget; belongs in the ISD employee portal |