Nova answers policy questions with handbook citations, files leave and expenses, generates payslips, onboards new hires, routes approvals and handles resignations — for employees, managers and HR teams, in one conversation and one secure web app.
How many earned leaves do I have? Can I work from home on Fridays? Where's my payslip? Who approves my claim? Employees ask. HR answers. Manually. Every single time.
The real cost isn't only HR bandwidth. It's employees waiting days for answers that should be instant, managers chasing approvals over email, new hires idle in their first week — and the compliance risk of inconsistent, undocumented responses.
See what Nova doesLeave, payroll, policy and onboarding questions flood inboxes and chats — consuming time that should go to people strategy.
Leave, expense and exit requests stall in email threads, with no single place for managers to act.
New hires wait for logins, laptops and paperwork guidance — delaying time to productivity.
Inconsistent answers and informal processes leave gaps in the audit trail as organisations scale.
The full product is running: a secure sign-in, role-aware dashboards, a conversational agent and the HR workspace behind it. Pick a guided persona on the sign-in page and try it in under a minute.
Onboard a new hire in one conversation, run monthly payroll, approve requests company-wide and see headcount.
Try: “Onboard a new employee”Clear the approvals inbox for leave, expenses and resignations — from chat or one click in the inbox.
Try: “Show pending approvals”Ask any policy question with citations, apply for leave, claim expenses and download payslips as PDF.
Try: “Show my payslip for last month”Get a guided onboarding checklist — documents, IT access and policies — with IT tickets raised automatically.
Try: “Onboarding checklist”Nova doesn't stop at answers — it completes the work, writes the record, routes the approval and logs every step.
Plain-language questions answered from your HR handbook, with the exact section cited. When Nova isn't confident, it escalates instead of guessing.
Live balances, working-day calculation, notice-period and medical-certificate checks, and routing to the right manager.
Company-wide payroll runs for HR, and on-demand payslips for employees — Basic, HRA, PF, professional tax and TDS — downloadable as PDF.
Guided claims with policy checks for submission windows and approval thresholds, routed to the approver and tracked to payout.
HR creates the employee in one conversation; Nova sets up the login, pro-rated leave, onboarding checklist and IT provisioning tickets.
Managers approve leave, expenses and resignations for their team only — in chat (“Approve LR-0902”) or one click in the inbox.
Calculates the notice period, captures the last working day, routes for acceptance and starts the exit checklist — with a confidential HR handoff option.
Headcount by department, joiners this month, onboarding progress, people on leave and payroll totals — on demand for HR leaders.
HR tickets with full context, a people directory, and confidential routing for harassment or safety concerns — without storing what the employee typed.
Profile, login, compensation and manager in one conversation.
Documents, IT access and policies — guided step by step.
Leave, expenses, directory and instant, cited policy answers.
Monthly runs and payslips anyone can understand and download.
Notice, acceptance and exit checklist handled with care.
Nova saves money in two places at once: the HR hours spent on repeatable work, and the employee and manager time lost waiting for it. And it costs very little to run.
Policy questions, leave balances, payslip requests and “where is my request?” follow-ups are resolved by Nova instead of an HR inbox.
Employees stop waiting on answers; managers stop chasing approvals; new hires reach productivity sooner with a guided first week.
Every answer comes from the approved handbook and every action is logged, cutting rework from inconsistent answers and audit gaps.
Adjust the assumptions to your organisation. All figures are illustrative estimates, not guarantees.
*Azure list prices (South India, Nov 2026, excl. GST): App Service B1 ≈ ₹1,321/month plus ≈ ₹0.03 of AI tokens per request. Excludes implementation, integration and support services. FTE = 160 working hours/month.
Deterministic workflows (leave, payroll, approvals, onboarding) use no AI tokens at all. The language model is called only to phrase policy answers from the retrieved handbook section.
With the default assumptions above — 2 requests per employee per month, 12 HR minutes each and 60% handled end to end by Nova:
Typical manual processes compared with the same task in Nova today.
| Task | Typical manual process | With Nova |
|---|---|---|
| Policy question | Email HR, wait hours to days; answers vary by who replies | Seconds — answer with the handbook section cited |
| Leave request | Check balance, email manager, HR updates a sheet | ~1 minute — balance check, working days, routed to manager |
| Payslip & salary breakdown | Raise a payroll ticket and wait for a PDF | Seconds — any month, downloadable as PDF |
| Expense claim | Fill a form, email receipts, chase approval | ~1 minute — policy checks and routing built in |
| Manager approvals | Requests scattered across email threads | One inbox — approve in chat or with one click |
| New-hire setup | HR, IT and the manager coordinate across several systems | One conversation — login, leave, checklist and IT tickets |
| Monthly payroll run | Spreadsheet calculations and manual payslip generation | One command — payslips for everyone with totals |
| Resignation | Letters, notice calculations and exit checklists by hand | Guided — notice period, last day and exit checklist |
AI agents succeed on adoption, not features. CodeSizzler pairs Nova with a structured rollout, change-management kit and success metrics.
Load your HR handbook, map roles and approvers, configure leave and expense rules, connect identity and pick the AI model for your cost and data needs.
Launch with one department (50–200 people) and a few HR champions. Review unanswered questions weekly and refine the handbook.
Roll out company-wide with launch communications, a 15-minute manager walkthrough and Nova surfaced where people already work.
Track adoption and containment monthly, close policy gaps Nova surfaces, and add workflows as HR priorities change.
Deterministic workflows for anything that writes a record, a grounded language model for anything that explains a policy, and enterprise security throughout.
Every conversation follows a validated path — GREET → QUERY_TYPE → RESOLVE → ESCALATE or CLOSE — so the agent can never wander into an undefined state.
Nova retrieves the most relevant handbook section first; the model only rephrases it, and Nova adds the citation itself. Low-confidence questions go to a human.
Signed, HttpOnly session cookies, hashed passwords and sign-in throttling today, with a clear path to Microsoft Entra ID SSO. Salaries never appear in the directory.
Cited policy answers, leave, payroll and payslips, expenses, onboarding, approvals, resignations, directory, tickets and workforce insights, live on Azure.
Microsoft Teams channel, Entra ID single sign-on and live connectors to leading HRIS and payroll platforms.
Voice via Azure Speech, an adoption and containment dashboard, and analytics on the questions employees ask most.
We're onboarding a small cohort of organisations to pilot Nova with their own policies and people:
No. Nova takes the repeatable, rules-based work — answers, requests, approvals routing and paperwork — so your HR team can spend time on hiring, culture, performance and sensitive conversations. Anything Nova isn't confident about goes to a person with full context.
Yes. Your handbook becomes Nova's knowledge source, organised into citable sections. Update the document and Nova's answers update too — no model retraining.
Nova runs on Microsoft Azure AI Foundry inside your Azure subscription. The live demo uses the open-weight gpt-oss-120b model; GPT and DeepSeek models can be swapped in by configuration. Only the retrieved policy section and the question are sent to the model.
A typical engagement follows the plan above: configuration in the first two weeks, a departmental pilot next, then company-wide rollout. Timelines depend on integrations such as SSO and your HRIS.
Very little. Workflows like leave and approvals use no AI tokens; policy answers cost about ₹0.03 each at Azure list prices, and pilot hosting can run on App Service Free or Basic tiers. Use the calculator above to estimate value for your organisation.
The live demo uses illustrative Indian payroll rules on dummy data. In production, Nova connects to your payroll system as the source of truth and presents payslips from it.
Role-based access, signed sessions, an audit log of every action and confidential routing for harassment or safety concerns. Salaries never appear in the directory, and employees can only see their own payslips.