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AI Built In

AI built into every restaurant decision.

Voice AI takes the drive-thru. Vision AI watches the kitchen. Reporting AI answers questions in plain English. Manager Copilot handles the rest. Five AI capabilities plus twelve embedded modules — all running on one unified data layer.

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What does Nova mean by AI-native?

Nova was architected around AI from day one — every module reads and writes to the same unified data layer, and AI runs on that data continuously. Voice AI takes drive-thru orders. Vision AI monitors the kitchen. Reporting AI answers operational questions. Manager Copilot reasons across the whole OS. The result: intelligence that improves with every transaction, across every location.

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BENEFIT 01

Five AI capabilities,
one operating system.

Voice AI, Vision AI, Reporting AI, AI Marketing and Omni-channel AI — each is a complete capability in its own right. Together, they run every layer of the restaurant.

  • Voice AI — drive-thru, phone orders, missed-call recovery
  • Vision AI — kitchen flow, drive-thru lanes, queue prediction
  • Reporting AI — natural-language analytics with cited sources
  • AI Marketing — generated, scheduled, measured automatically
  • Omni-channel AI — one guest profile across every touchpoint
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5
AI capabilities, all running on the same unified data layer
BENEFIT 02

AI-embedded across
every other module too.

Beyond the five top-level capabilities, AI runs every other module — real-time ops alerts, AI labor optimization, predictive analytics, AI-driven upsell, menu intelligence and Manager Copilot.

  • Real-time ops alerts on voids, comps, drawer counts, lane times
  • AI labor optimization across every shift, every location
  • Predictive demand and prep forecasting per location, per daypart
  • AI-driven upsell in POS, kiosk, mobile and drive-thru
  • Menu engineering — what to feature, retire, re-price this week
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12+
AI-embedded modules across the platform
BENEFIT 03

AI operators trust.
AI procurement can sign off on.

Every model has an owner, a test suite, an audit trail. Voice AI escalates ambiguous orders. Vision AI alerts managers — it doesn't take action unsupervised. Reporting AI cites sources. Built for the diligence enterprise CIOs actually run.

  • Data governance — guest data partitioned per brand, encrypted
  • Model evaluation — every model has a benchmark and a regression gate
  • Human-in-the-loop — AI escalates and alerts; doesn't act unsupervised
  • Audit & explainability — every AI decision traces to source data
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Real example — Bayou Bistro

Reporting AI surfaced that a dessert cart outperformed the printed dessert menu by 18% — generating $25,000 in incremental revenue at one location. The kind of insight legacy stacks structurally cannot produce.

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Explore each AI capability

Voice AI

Drive-thru, phone, missed-call recovery

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Vision AI

Kitchen flow, drive-thru lanes, safety

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AI Agents

Host, Server, Manager, Marketer

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Reporting AI

Natural-language analytics

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Manager Copilot

Chat across the entire OS

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AI-driven upsell

Personalized at every touchpoint

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