The AI workspace that runs your workday — with your approval.
A native macOS AI workspace that runs a knowledge worker's entire day in one calm window: email, calendar, projects, research, voice, media and scheduled agents — unified, and always under your control.
One calm window for the whole workday
Nova is a native macOS AI workspace that unifies a professional's entire workday in one calm window: email triage, calendar, projects, sourced research, voice, live media and scheduled AI agents. Unlike chat assistants, Nova acts — it prepares, drafts and organizes — but nothing is ever sent or executed without the user's explicit approval. It is model-agnostic by design, routing across Claude, OpenAI-compatible endpoints and Meta's Muse models through a production multi-model router. Nova was designed and built solo by a senior humanitarian analyst in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, who uses it every day for real, high-stakes analytical work at Save the Children. It has been accepted into the Meta Global AI Developer Hackathon 2026. Pre-revenue today, Nova's path to market runs through curated Mac distribution (Setapp), direct licensing and professional services.
"Nova prepares, drafts and organizes — but nothing is ever sent or executed without the user's explicit approval."
Every action Nova takes passes through a confirmation gate. It does the work; you keep the decision. That approval gate is the product's trust signature.
Everything the day demands, in one place
Mail triage
Incoming email sorted, summarised and drafted — ready for your approval.
Calendar
Your schedule, woven into the same window as everything else.
Projects
Ongoing work tracked and organised alongside your day.
Code review
Review code without leaving your workspace.
Sourced research
Research with sources, gathered and structured for real decisions.
Live market tracking
Markets followed in real time, inside the workspace.
Finance & Health
Sensitive spaces kept behind a PIN vault.
Radio, podcasts & video
Live media — radio, podcasts and video — in the same calm window.
Native messaging panes
Mail and chat side by side, in native panes.
Real-time voice
Talk to Nova, and hear it answer, in real time.
Scheduled AI agents
14 scheduled AI agents working your routines in the background.
Confirmation-gated execution
Nothing is sent or executed without your explicit approval.
A 3D panda avatar with voice-synced speech reacts to context as Nova works.
Native, model-agnostic, local-first
Native macOS (Swift)
A true native Mac application, built in Swift — not a web wrapper.
Multi-model router
A production multi-model failover router spanning 23 models keeps Nova working even when a provider fails.
Model-agnostic by design
Claude Sonnet is the default brain via the Anthropic API; Meta Muse models are integrated for the hackathon.
Local-first
The workspace lives on the user's Mac.
Where Nova stands today
- Accepted into the Meta Global AI Developer Hackathon 2026 — competition running 26 October to 4 November 2026.
- Used daily in production by its founder, for real professional work.
- Pre-revenue, fully bootstrapped, built solo.
Designed and built by one person
Ahadi Jean Cyrille Dahani
Senior Humanitarian Analyst (Africa) at Save the Children, based in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. He designed and wrote Nova himself — and uses it every day for real, high-stakes analytical work.