Engineering
How we built an AI that actually knows your context

Daniel Osei
Jun 4, 2026

The difference between a useful AI and a party trick is context. An assistant that doesn't know your roadmap, your customers or your last three decisions is just a faster way to get a plausible wrong answer.
Nova indexes your docs, tasks and chat in real time, then retrieves only what's relevant to each request. Everything stays inside your workspace, encrypted, and is never used to train shared models.
In this post we walk through the retrieval pipeline, how we keep latency under 300ms, and the trade-offs we made along the way.

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