The operating system
that turns goals into results.
Install the structure that gets your team working with focus, deciding with confidence, and shipping without waiting for permission. Half the meetings. Faster decisions. Real progress by day 90.
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The chief of staff software for installing operating cadence. Built for leadership meetings, OKRs, decision logs, and the team rituals that turn strategy into action.
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The operating layer your team has been missing.
A calm system for intelligent work. Nova is the operating layer that lets teams work with focus and decide with confidence — without sitting in meetings all day. It replaces meeting culture with structured execution: every initiative has an owner, every decision is logged, every recurring process compounds instead of restarting from scratch.
Other tools track documents or tasks. Nova builds the rituals that become how a team works — the discipline that makes culture, the cadence that makes speed, and the structure that lets people move without checking in for permission.
" You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your processes.
— James Clear, Atomic Habits
Rituals that don't run on motivation
Daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly rhythms that compound. Progress, clarity, and team cohesion stop depending on who's "on" today. The cadence carries the momentum.
Half the meetings, twice the outcomes
Pre-reads sent ahead. Status updates async. Meetings exist to decide, not to update. Most teams cut leadership meeting time by 30–50% in the first month.
Decision rights & a log that holds
Decision rights are set inside the living process — who decides what, and what has to be escalated. As decisions happen, they're logged with owner, rationale, and context. Nothing gets re-litigated. Nothing gets lost in a Slack thread you can't find.
Minimum standards your team actually meets
Define what "good" looks like once. Build it into every session. No more "send me what you did" — what gets done IS the standard, every time.
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Your operating cadence — on one canvas.
Q1 through Q4. Weekly, monthly, quarterly rituals. Pre-built sessions wired up. Build it once · run it every quarter — nothing rebuilt from scratch.
OKRs & Operating Cadence 2026
A real Nova canvas. Pre-built. No setup. Same shape every quarter — your team learns it once.
Whatever's on fire right now, there's a Nova process for it.
You don't have to build the operating system from scratch. Four pre-built processes — used by chiefs of staff in Series A through D companies — ready to run in your team this week.
First 90 Days Playbook
For chiefs of staff, COOs, and heads of operations in their first 90 days — or anyone leading a transformation initiative. Install structure fast instead of replacing it with yourself.
What's inside
- Stakeholder listening tour — structured conversations to map the org
- Decision log + first leadership session
- Rhythm of business — daily, weekly, monthly
- First quarterly planning that carries forward
- AI roles defined inside your processes
- Day 90 vacation — phone-free, no fires
OKRs + Operating Cadence
For the CoS who's watched OKRs become a pretty deck nobody references after the kickoff. Install OKRs that are still alive in week 11.
What's inside
- Week 1 — CEO sets 3–5 Objectives (no more)
- Week 2 — Honest cascade to each function
- Week 3 — Check-in cadence wired into your rituals
- Week 4 — Mid-quarter pressure-test built in
- Templates for status, escalations, recommits
- Carries forward to next quarter — no rebuild
Monthly Business Review
A high-impact 90-minute leadership session designed to identify and correct performance drift before it impacts quarterly goals. Move beyond status updates — focus on decisions and course correction.
What's inside
- Training session — how the MBR works and what makes it different from a status meeting
- Recurring monthly meeting organized by quarter — runs itself once installed
- Monthly OKR signal review — surface the red signals, identify what's actually happening
- Structured discussion → decision → owner — every red signal gets a response, not just a flag
Good Management Rituals
For the company that wants every manager running the same baseline. The rituals that define what "good management" means here — and turn company objectives into actual team action.
What's inside
- Monthly priority-setting meeting — the team's focus, deliverables, and owners for the month
- Customizable add-ons — team-building surveys, kickoffs, retros, anything your team needs
- One standard, every team — what "good management" means at your company
- Strategy → action — company objectives become the team's monthly priorities
Not sure which one? Start with whichever pain is loudest this week. You can run all three — most chiefs of staff do, in this order.
The building blocks — install one at a time.
Single-session templates that stand on their own. Use one to solve a specific pain, or combine several into a full operating cadence.
90-Day Plan · Your Rocks
Turn a quarter's ambition into 3–6 owned priorities and the actions that deliver them. Set the theme and the one critical number that matters most, define each rock with a measurable target and a single accountable owner, then break the rocks into a Who–What–When.
Open the template →OKRs · Aligned Goal-Setting
Easy-to-use, visual goal-setting tool built to help leaders and teams set their OKRs together. Create an aligned workforce that helps the company hit broader business goals by tackling them one piece at a time — and visualize how each team's OKRs ladder up to the whole.
Open the template →Department Scorecard
Does the same one level up: defines what an entire team is accountable for. Captures the department's mission, its owned KPIs and targets, the capabilities it must be great at, and how it works — plus a section mapping how it serves other departments.
Open the template →Job Scorecard
One level deeper: defines what a single role is accountable for. Key outcomes with measurable targets, the competencies required to deliver them, and the standard of what "great" looks like in the role — so hiring, feedback, and performance all run on the same definition.
Open the template →Looking for something specific? Browse the full template library →
Try it yourself, or have us install it with you.
Same platform. Same processes. Choose the path that matches how fast you need to move.
Start with Nova
For teams ready to install structure themselves — with pre-built processes and a full library.
Paid plans from $20/seat/month · no credit card required
What you get
- Full Nova platform access for your team
- Library of 300+ pre-built processes to choose from
- The 4 core operating processes ready to install
- AI teammates with defined roles inside your processes
- In-app guidance & async support from the Nova team
Best for
Chiefs of staff and ops leaders with the bandwidth to run a rollout themselves — usually one process this quarter.
Try Nova Free →Setup in under an hour · no credit card
90-Day Transformation Package
We install Nova with you. Your team doesn't build the system — we do, together — so your operating cadence is running in 90 days.
Includes 90 days of Nova platform + implementation + training
What's included
- Nova platform · full team, 90 days $800
- Deployment of your 3 highest-priority processes $15K
- 12 weekly 1:1s with a Nova ops specialist $18K
- Custom design of your operating cadence $12K
- Processes set up so AI coworkers can be added by your team $8K
- Full-team training & adoption support $8K
- Written 90-day report (for your board or CEO) $5K
To date, zero refunds requested across the transformation program.
Cohort intake · limited spots per quarter
From the operating system to the architect of one.
Self-reported by chiefs of staff using Nova for 90+ days. Six things they tell us they get back — in this order.
Strategic work / day
15% of time → 75%+ of time
Decisions logged
with owner, deadline & context
Work week
with weekly review & rituals
Real vacation by day 90
of CoSes report taking one
Your evenings come back
The CEO Slack at 10pm stops feeling like the only way the company runs. Your first Nova session produces clear outcomes — and you go home.
Your brain stops being the database
Decisions stop getting re-litigated. The same question doesn't get asked three times. The log is the source of truth — not your memory.
Your calendar gets purpose
Every recurring meeting becomes a Nova session with a clear outcome. The 75-minute leadership sync becomes 30 minutes. You get protected deep work — and you keep it.
Your CEO trusts the structure
They stop adding to your plate in 1:1s. They start asking which session a topic belongs in. You've installed something they actually use — and they've noticed.
Quarterly planning stops being scratch work
Last quarter's decisions are searchable. The cycle carries forward. What used to take 6 weeks of rebuild compresses into structured sessions.
You take a real vacation
Phone-free week. The team runs the rituals. Decisions get made. You come back to a queue, not a fire — and a CEO who tells the board you've changed how they operate.
*Results vary by company stage, team size, and how consistently processes are run. Methodology: self-reported time tracking and decision-log audit across 50+ chief of staff users onboarded onto Nova for 90+ days. Based on internal Nova data, 2024–2026.
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Start with the process that matches what's on fire — install it this week. Free to start, no credit card.
Install the system where humans and AI collaborate.
Every leadership team is asking the same question: how do we make our AI investment actually work with the team? Most tools bolted a chat sidebar onto their product. AI helps individuals go faster on their own tasks — but the team's work doesn't change.
Nova was built differently. AI has defined roles inside the processes your team already runs. Researcher. Drafter. Synthesizer. Each with a seat at the table — with autonomy, not waiting for a human to prompt it.
AI executes within its role. Humans review, decide, lead. The team gains leverage without losing ownership — and your AI investment finally shows up on the org's output, not just individual productivity.
A system where humans and AI collaborate — AI with clear roles and autonomy, humans with clear ownership. That's how AI stops being a copilot and starts being a coworker.
What our clients are saying.
Trusted by teams at
"We went from being stuck — with me having to be everywhere and overworking — to I'm working part-time and we opened a new office. What Nova gave me is time back to think, to grow, to achieve."
"It made my team proactive. They could start a project, move to next steps, and not wait for me. We also use it to gather feedback from clients async — it's helped us move things faster and given the team confidence to take ownership and initiative."
Join the chiefs of staff already running on Nova.
Try Nova free — no credit card required. Pre-built processes start running with your team within an hour.
Structure compounds. So does its absence.
Every week without it is another week of these numbers. Every week with it compounds the other direction.
You're at week 6. Or 12. Or 24.
The structure you don't install this quarter, you'll install under fire next quarter — with one more board cycle of catch-up baked in.
By day 90, either you've installed something durable — or you are the operating system. And if you leave, everything collapses.
Common questions
What chiefs of staff usually ask first.
None of these match your fire? Browse the full process library — 300+ ready-to-run processes for hiring, onboarding, retros, performance cycles, offsites, and more. Or talk to us — we'll design a process specifically for your team and help you roll it out.
Most CEOs spend 10–15 minutes a week in the tool and walk away with more clarity on what's been decided — and what's coming — than they had before. They don't need to "adopt" anything. They just need to show up where they're useful.
You came into this role to be strategic. Build the structure that makes that real.
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