What Is a Connector?
A connector links Velatir to the administration API of an AI vendor your organisation already pays for. You approve the connection once, in the vendor’s own admin tools. From then on Velatir reads what the vendor records about your organisation’s use of it: conversations, licences, and how many seats are in use. Nothing is installed on anyone’s device, and nothing changes for the people using the service.Microsoft 365
Microsoft 365 Copilot conversations, Copilot licences, and seats.
Connectors and Device Capture
Connectors complement Velatir for Desktop and the browser extension. They do not replace them.
When both see the same conversation, Velatir reconciles them so it is not counted twice.
What You Need
- The Administrator role in your Velatir organisation. Readers can see connections but cannot add, reconnect, or remove them. See Roles & permissions.
- An administrator account at the vendor, with the right to approve access for your whole organisation. Each connector’s page says which role that is.
Where Connectors Live
Connectors are part of the Inventory, the list of AI services your organisation declares it uses. Services are grouped by provider, and a provider that Velatir can connect to shows a Connect button on its card.Declare a service from the provider
Open Inventory from the sidebar. If the provider is not listed yet, select Declare service(s) and declare one of its services. The provider’s card then shows Declared · not connected.
Connect it
Select Connect on the provider’s card and follow the steps. They differ per vendor, so follow the page for that connector.
Follow the connection on the card
The card gets a Connections section with the connection’s status and, where the vendor reports them, its plans and seats.
If the card shows a lock and the message Connecting vendors is not included in your plan, connectors are not enabled for your organisation. Contact hello@velatir.com.
Connection Status
Each connection shows one status. Velatir works it out from the latest attempt to reach the vendor, so it is always current.
Velatir re-checks every connection’s access every 15 minutes. If someone removes Velatir’s access in the vendor’s admin tools, the connection shows Action needed within that time.
Activity From a Connector
Activity a connector brings in appears in Sessions like any other activity, dated when it happened rather than when Velatir read it. Its Origin is Connector, so you can filter for it, or leave it out.- Agents assess it after the fact. Gatekeeper and Data Protector review connector activity as it arrives. The interaction has already happened, so an Enforcer’s block is recorded but not enforced, and connector activity does not notify your escalation channels.
- Your privacy settings apply. Store trace data in sessions decides whether the text of a connector conversation is kept, exactly as for every other session. The default is Never. See Data privacy.
- Nothing is sent to the device. Coaching and approval notices are not sent for connector activity. They need Velatir on the device at the moment of use.
Reconnecting and Disconnecting
- Reconnect runs the vendor’s approval again. The existing access stays in place until the new approval succeeds, and everything already imported is kept.
- Disconnect removes the connection and Velatir’s access. Velatir can no longer read from the vendor for that connection. What it imported stays, and the declared services stay in the inventory. A provider with several connections offers Disconnect all, or you can remove one connection at a time.
Microsoft 365
Connect a Microsoft 365 tenant.
Sessions and traces
How activity is grouped once it reaches Velatir.