AI implementation, on your terms
Control your AI ambition without creating dependency.
Nova helps CTOs, founders and leadership teams build secure, configurable agent systems — keeping the control of building yourself, without the risk of rebuilding everything from scratch.
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Ambition
AI you want to build
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Control plan
risks, build vs buy
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Configured agents
rules, models, checkpoints
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Secure rollout
governed & owned
The gap
Ambition is easy. Control is the hard part.
Most leadership teams already see what AI can do. The hard part is turning that ambition into secure, connected and controllable systems inside a company shaped by legacy software, existing processes and real operational constraints.
- 01You see what AI can do — but the path to a controlled rollout is unclear.
- 02Legacy software and architecture choices make every integration risky.
- 03Building everything in-house is slow, costly and easy to over-engineer.
- 04Generic AI tools stay disconnected from your real systems and data.
- 05Black-box agencies create dependency and unclear ownership.
- 06Models, plugins, security and cost choices change faster than you can commit.
Nova exists for the space in between. The control of building yourself, the speed of a proven backbone and the flexibility of a modular partner — without betting everything on a vendor or rebuilding the hard parts.
Nova Backbone
A proven foundation, so you don't rebuild the hard parts.
Nova Backbone gives companies a proven foundation for agent orchestration, governance, human-in-the-loop review, secure integrations and modular AI deployment — so teams focus on what should be unique to their business, not on rebuilding the same infrastructure from scratch.
It lets Nova move faster from a controlled plan to configured, secure agents — and gives customers model, plugin and deployment choices instead of a black box.
Workflow mapping
Roles, steps, decisions, exceptions and handoffs.
Intake flows
Requests, forms, documents, files, messages and structured inputs.
Connectors
Email, documents, CRMs, spreadsheets, databases, dashboards and APIs.
Agent orchestration
Prompts, tools, rules, model calls and task routing.
Human review
Approval points, corrections, exceptions and supervised decisions.
Memory & context
Project state, client context, domain knowledge and reusable patterns.
Logs & traceability
What happened, why, what was reviewed and what was changed.
Deployment playbooks
Repeatable patterns for moving from MVA to production-ready workflows.
Ways to work with Nova
Four ways to stay in control of your AI ambition.
Start where you are and keep control as you scale — from an independent second opinion to a fully custom environment on Nova Backbone. You choose the level of control you need.
AI Control Advisory
Pressure-test the plan before you commit budget.
An independent challenger and implementation advisor. Nova helps you challenge the roadmap, spot architectural and legacy-integration risks, weigh build vs buy, and define the next controlled step.
Discuss your AI ambition02Configurable Vertical Products
A proven starting point you still control.
Use Nova's vertical products as a domain-aware head start, then control how the agents operate: rules, model choice, plugins, permissions, human checkpoints and cost controls — no blank page, no black box.
Explore Lab03Nova Companion
A secure AI layer you can plug in now.
When you want to learn fast or create leverage today, Companion gives your team a secure AI layer that plugs into your existing systems — practical, low-risk experimentation before a bigger build.
Explore Nova Companion04Custom Nova Backbone Instance
Your own environment on a proven foundation.
For teams that want full ownership, Nova stands up a dedicated, isolated instance on Nova Backbone — full freedom to build, without repeating the foundational mistakes others already made.
Explore Nova BuildHow we work
Start where you are. Keep control as you scale.
A disciplined path from a real problem to secure, working AI — proof before commitment, and control at every step, not only at the end.
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Identify the workflow
Start from a recurring operational problem, not a tool. We find where AI can remove a real bottleneck.
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Scope the MVA
Define the Minimal Viable Agent: the smallest useful workflow that proves value, data needs and human review points.
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Build the first working agent workflow
Ship a real, end-to-end workflow on Nova Backbone — not a slide, not a demo.
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Validate with users
Put it in front of the people who do the work. Measure whether it earns trust and adoption.
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Scale or productize
Roll it out across the organization, or turn a repeatable pattern into a vertical product.
Vertical products
Where recurring problems become products.
Nova Labs turns repeated market problems into configurable vertical products. Design partners get early access, help shape the product and keep control over how the agents operate in their own environment.
Current Lab explorations
Solon by Nova
The first Lab exploration to become a full vertical product.
Solon brings agent-first workflows to consulting and expert firms — proposals, research, deliverables, knowledge reuse and firm operations — with consultants in control of every client-facing decision. It has its own product page.
Built on Nova Backbone.
LabRialti by Nova
Agent-first workflows for real estate, property management and investor operations.
Rialti explores how agents can help real estate operators handle property intake, maintenance requests, tenant and vendor communication, lease and document review, portfolio follow-up, investor updates and operational task routing.
Built on Nova Backbone.
LabPreflight by Nova
Agent-first prepress workflows for print businesses.
Preflight explores how agents can guide customer intake, check artwork, detect file issues, prepare proofs, route prepress review and help generate production-ready files.
Built on Nova Backbone.
LabNova Companion
Embeddable AI companions for customer-facing workflows.
Nova Companion explores how companies can configure a governed, white-label AI layer for their own customers — with their own instructions, approved agents, trusted content and human approval rules — instead of shipping a generic chatbot.
Built on Nova Backbone.
LabScout by Nova
Agent-first workflows for executive search and recruiting teams.
Scout helps executive search and recruiting teams compress the path from client mandate to qualified shortlist. Agents structure intake, enrich profiles, reason over fit and draft client-ready outputs, while recruiters and search partners stay in control of judgment, trust and final decisions.
Built on Nova Backbone.
About
Built by founders across workflow, product and engineering.
Nova is founded by Frideric Pétré and Ivan Suarez to build practical agent-first systems for workflow-heavy businesses. The studio combines advisory experience, B2B software experience and engineering execution into one approach: understand the workflow, build the first agent-first loop, and reuse what works through Nova Backbone.
Scope before software. Workflow before automation. MVA before scale.
Cofounders
Frideric Pétré
CofounderConsulting, B2B software and founder experience. Focused on workflow strategy, scoping, commercial design and vertical product opportunities.
Ivan Suarez
CofounderProduct, architecture and engineering experience. Focused on turning scoped workflows into reliable agent-first systems, reusable components and deployable software.
Want to move faster with AI without losing control?
Bring us your AI ambition and your real constraints. We'll help you choose the level of control you need — a second opinion, a configurable vertical product, a secure companion, or a custom environment on Nova Backbone.
Not sure where to start? Start the conversation. We'll point you to the right level of control — or tell you it's not ready yet.