Nova Features & Product Highlights
Nova is a modern collaboration and stakeholder management platform designed to streamline projects, hold stakeholders accountable, manage the team holistically and automate manual work.
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Digital Whiteboard
Nova provides a digital whiteboard, available to all our users. This dynamic whiteboard serves as the perfect canvas for leading collaborative meetings, facilitating brainstorming sessions, sharing sketches, and creating moodboards. Additionally, it’s a good tool for discussing strategic decisions. You can find templates such as the value proposition canvas, the business canvas, and a vast array of other templates.
What sets our whiteboards apart is the ability to assign start and due dates, along with clearly defined roles and responsibilities. This unique feature ensures that team members and stakeholders can seamlessly integrate this into their calendars, taking ownership of decisions and facilitating a streamlined workflow.
Features
Nova Basic & PRO
Available in PRO Only
Other Tools
Similar whiteboards are, for example, Miro and Mural. However, these two platforms are exclusively whiteboards, so none of our other features will be accessible. These tools lack the following:
List Sessions: Live Meetings & Async Meetings Effectively
Explore Nova’s Signature Feature! Designed for use in both live and asynchronous meetings. User-friendly interface that allows all collaborators to view each other’s cursors, ideas and decisions – making this space very collaborative. The space can be tailored to suit the specific objectives of your meeting(session).
Similar to the whiteboard, you can set a start and due date, define roles and responsibilities, and seamlessly track participation and decisions within this feature.
Features
Nova Basic & PRO
Available in PRO Only
Other Tools
There are alternative ways to achieve the same goal, but there are no tools in the market that have been curated quite like this feature. Some users resort to surveys, but those are not collaborative and cannot be used during meetings or to lead asynchronous meetings with stakeholders.
Surveys, Quizzes & Research Sessions
Turn your sessions into surveys, quizzes, or even research sessions by adjusting the settings. Ideal for quick surveys, these are easy to build and offer a lot of options, including counting individual scores. They can also be easily used to lead individual and group interviews where customers can be shown options and alternatives, allowing them to choose the options that resonate with them during the customer interviews. The space is easy and visual, allowing you to incorporate videos, images, and predefined templates that will save you hundreds of hours.
Features
Nova Basic & PRO
Available in PRO Only
Other Tools
There are hundreds of survey tools, starting with Google Questionnaires. You may also consider other options like Typeform, and for team health surveys, you might explore Culture Amp. If you are specifically seeking a survey tool, Nova may not be the right fit for you. However, if having a survey feature is a plus, and you want to conduct user and customer interviews, Nova offers unique value with features that most survey tools don’t have.
Leadership Hub
Nova was created not only to collaborate in meetings or asynchronously but also to follow the most advanced organizational psychology and management industry recommendations, ensuring that teams can collaborate effectively and organizations can stay healthy. For that reason, Nova includes a Leadership Hub to help managers better support their teams. This space is curated and private for each manager, allowing them to collaborate with HR. It gives them access to tools and templates for leading meetings, 1:1s, career growth plans, candidate interviews, team health surveys, OKRs, etc.
Features
Nova Basic & PRO
Available in PRO Only
Other Tools
You can find tools like Fellow for 1:1s or use tools like Culture Amp for team surveys. Nova focuses on creating a private space for each leader on your team, giving them access to industry-leading tools and facilitating collaboration between the HR team, you, and other managers. Since templates can be shared between managers, the HR team can even schedule certain activities and include the template you have to use. For example, during employee performance reviews, you can share conclusions and results with the HR team and other managers to keep them informed about interviews or conflicts within the team. The space is flexible, allowing you to create training sessions and onboarding workflows for new team members joining your team. Overall, it’s a collaborative tool that includes the basics for great leadership.
Workflows & Processes
Build workflows and processes as you get work done or use workflows templates, moving you ahead every time you start. Collaborative workflows can be defined with the team, designed to help manage meetings, decisions, work sessions, tasks, and even the resources needed in the process. Options are available to share the workflow with external stakeholders, keeping certain areas and sessions private. This way, you can see all your work, decisions, and progress in one place without having to duplicate work for clients or external stakeholders.
Multiple automations are available to help you manage work more efficiently.
Ideal for cross-functional teams that are looking for ways to collaborate without the chaos.
Features
Nova Basic & PRO
Available in PRO Only
Other Tools
There are hundreds of survey tools, starting with Google Questionnaires. You may also consider other options like Typeform, and for team health surveys, you might explore Culture Amp. If you are specifically seeking a survey tool, Nova may not be the right fit for you. However, if having a survey feature is a plus, and you want to conduct user and customer interviews, Nova offers unique value with features that most survey tools don’t have.
Spaces & “Project” Management Dashboard
Organize your departments and teams in whatever way works best for you, and access a simple list of the projects, clients, initiatives, etc., that each team is working on. Track what’s done, what decisions have been made, and what seems to be off track easily.
Features
Nova Basic & PRO
Available in PRO Only
Other Tools
Our project dashboard is designed according to industry standards, making it easy for you to organize your work.
Other tools with similar dashboard have additional settings. Our dashboard is simple, the objective is to help you organize your work based on due dates, project owners and the status of the project. Projects can often be – strategies, designs, clients, product initiatives, etc
Tasks & KANBAN Boards
Easily manage your tasks from your calendar, the project, or a KANBAN board. Tasks can be part of the workflow and automatically start once a meeting is done or something gets approved.
Features
Nova Basic & PRO
Other Tools
You have hundreds of task management platforms like Asana or Trello. If you are looking for a platform to manage tasks or create KANBAN boards, you may want to consider these other options. Asana provides more advanced features for tasks, and Trello can be a simple platform where you organize tasks on a KANBAN board. You may want to use Nova if you want to keep all your work in one place—meetings, surveys, projects, decisions, and tasks in a collaborative space. Some of the options that will not be available in other tools include:
Reports & Decisions
Automatically share insights and conclusions with team members and stakeholders. Send decisions that were made previously in meetings to keep everyone informed. Know when and who made certain decisions and gain access to a report that keeps track of all decisions made over time for each project or client, as well as the overall engagement of the team.
Features
Nova Basic & PRO
The Nova Calendar
The only calendar designed for seamless collaboration and stakeholder management. An easy-to-use calendar that allows you to oversee and organize all your collaborative and individual work, providing direct access to the workspace where works happens! Effectively manage meetings, approval requests, surveys, tasks, and more while keeping a record of decisions and fostering collaboration.
Features
Nova Basic & PRO
Available in PRO only
Other Tools
Alternatives: Google Calendar, Asana, Notion, etc. These tools don’t have the following options:
Stakeholder Management
Often known as the agenda, Nova automatically creates a space for external stakeholders, allowing you to manage the upcoming work. Stakeholders are easily held accountable for the work and decisions that have to be made. If using PRO, you can customize this space, and they have access to a calendar view of all the things assigned to them, as well as an agenda of key sessions.
Features
Nova Basic & PRO
Available in PRO Only
Other Tools
No other tools with similar options are available in the market.
Time Tracking
Keep track of how much time is spent on each project or client and leverage that report to create your invoices. A simple time tracking feature.
Nova Toolkit
A library accessible to all our users that includes tools to run meetings, surveys, async sessions, etc., includes templates on whiteboards, and even workflow templates following the latest industry-leading processes and recommendations. Find tools, templates, and workflows for marketing, product, design, business strategy, startups, stakeholder dialogues, HR, design thinking, and more.
Our Mission
Our Manifesto
Reduce waste, hold people accountable & say goodbye to back-to-back meetings
At Nova, we have four commitments: 1) ensure collaborative processes can be scalable, 2) ensure that collaboration is more engaging and productive without having to rely on meetings, 3) ensure that everyone, including clients, can be held accountable, and deadlines are met, and 4) ensure that collaboration is managed holistically, understanding that teams need support from their leaders to stay healthy and thrive.
Make collaborative processes scalable
Make collaboration more engaging and productive without having to rely on meetings
Improve team velocity and productivity: Ensure everyone, including clients, can be held accountable, and deadlines are met
Support leaders to ensure teams stay healthy and thrive
Trusted by
Our users are diverse and many of them work at start-ups, creative organizations, agencies, NGOs, universities, government institutions, and R&D departments. We are proud to have a global community, and our vision is to support small and large companies to develop solutions for today’s global challenges.
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Access dozens of tools and templates, lead meetings asynchronously, lead research sessions, and use our online whiteboards to run your collaborative meetings.
Basic
$9 per member/annually
Get access to advanced features and add as many whiteboards, asynchronous meetings, surveys, research sessions, or approval sessions as you need, and build workflows from start to finish.
Pro
$20 per member/annually
Get access to a collaborative workspace built for your organization and your brand. Manage stakeholders, gain access to pro features, and save your processes and templates to scale.
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