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What If You Could Talk To Your Database?

NOVA: Democratizing data intelligence, built for understanding

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Alain Junia
Oct 18, 2025
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We spend years making data accessible — dashboards, pipelines, reports — yet most people still can’t ask it a question. What if they could?

💡 The Problem: Data Is Trapped

Data isn’t hard to store. It’s hard to reach.

Every modern company sits on mountains of valuable data that only a handful of people—specialized analysts or engineers—can query effectively. This creates a bottleneck where human curiosity goes to die.

Most simple questions die at the door of a JIRA ticket or a Slack thread: “Hey, can someone pull last week’s failed trips per merchant for me?”

The outcome is always the same: a waiting game. We built barriers between curiosity and understanding—mostly by accident—by relying on specialized language like SQL to unlock basic facts.

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🌟 The Spark: Instant Insight

Now imagine typing that same question—in plain English—directly into your team’s Slack channel.

“How many trips failed payment last week?”

And the system doesn’t guess; it just answers with live, precise data: “NOVA: 231 trips across 12 merchants.”

That’s the core idea of NOVA.

🚀 The Solution: Meet NOVA

NOVA stands for Natural-language Orchestrated Virtual Analyst.

It takes the human request, instantly understands the intent, crafts the right database query (the actual SQL), securely runs it on your data platform, and returns summarized insights.

NOVA is built to live where your team already works. By embedding its capabilities into a chat interface, we eliminate the context switching that kills productivity.

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