Welcome to the first update to Nova after our public launch! This week has been about learning how you all want to use Nova and making improvements based on that usage. Let’s dive into what we added!

🙌 New and Improved

Employee Onboarding Notification

You can now automatically receive a daily update of new starters at the company directly from the HRIS. This feature integrates with your existing system to provide a list of people starting today, enhancing your ability to stay informed about new team members without manual tracking.

Expanded Knowledge For Difficult Conversations

Our expanded knowledge repository now encompasses additional resources on performance reviews and managing difficult conversations. You will find comprehensive guides and best practices tailored for handling these critical interactions within the workplace. This enriched content aids in preparing for and conducting performance evaluations effectively while offering strategies to address challenging dialogues with confidence.

Improved Personas of Agents

Conversations with the agents are now carried out in the more specific persona and tone of the individual agents. This helps make the different roles more engaging and relatable.

Grant Nova access to all Slack channel members

The newly added /nova-grant-access and /nova-revoke-access functionality provides you a seamless way to manage user permissions directly from the chat. By utilizing this feature, you can effortlessly grant or revoke access for team members either one at a time or in bulk across an entire Slack channel. Just reference the channel when you ask to grant access to someone or use the new /nova-grant-access slash command.

Enhanced Excel File Processing

We’ve added specific handling for excel files - especially for OKR management. Now you’ll be able to get deeper analysis and reporting on more complicated Excel files - including those with multiple worksheets.

Organizational Timezone for Task Scheduling

When scheduling tasks, Nova previously put all tasks in the UTC time zone. Now you can specify a timezone for your tasks and checking the scheduled tasks now tells you exactly when they’re going to run - timezone and all.

🪲 Bug Fixes

• Nova-Specific HRIS and ATS Connections

  • We’ve refined how HRIS and ATS connections are made and stored to prevent potential collisions with the same connections in Impact.

• Agents are referenced by their proper titles and names

• Agents properly answer in the first person

• Confirmation Bar in Slack Messaging

  • When you send or draft a message in Slack, the confirmation bar now appears prominently, allowing you to review before finalizing your action. This feature gives you more control over your interactions by providing options to confirm, edit, or restart the messaging process. It's conveniently located above the text input area, ensuring that you can make adjustments or confirm your message intent quickly and intuitively.

• Improved agent memory handling to prevent disruptions when tools are used

Quite possibly the biggest release in Peoplelogic’s history, today we are excited to announce the culmination of years of experience and months of focused work to bring the world’s first AI-powered People Ops team. Meet Nova 👋 Nova is a team of AI workers that collaborate with you in Slack and email to streamline processes, automate repetitive tasks, surface insights, and more—so you can focus on what truly drives impact.

After a successful beta period, we gathered tons of valuable feedback that led to adding some great functionality to Nova for the public launch! Let’s dive in.

Performance Review Analysis Tools

You can now gain deep insights into performance reviews with enhanced analysis tools designed to dissect and understand trends. For organizational use, the tools offer breakdowns by scores and managers, cycle comparisons, sentiment, and keyword analysis, as well as score distributions. When evaluating individuals, comparisons to organizational benchmarks include textual sentiment and keyword insights.

Take it a step further, and have Nova suggest survey questions, potential OKRs, 9boxes, and individual development plans based on the analyses to guide improvement strategies. A massive time saver!

Generate an IDP from a Review Cycle Analysis

Introducing a streamlined way to generate an Individual Development Plan (IDP) directly from your review cycles. This feature enables you to automatically create personalized development paths for team members by analyzing review cycle feedback and performance data. Foster continuous development within your team by aligning growth with organizational goals. Just ask Nova to create an IDP for an individual after you analyze a review cycle. Bonus points for copying it into Impact afterwards!

Suggested OKRs for Survey Responses

With the introduction of Suggested OKRs, you can now leverage system-generated Objectives and Key Results to respond more effectively to survey inputs and review analysis. This feature analyzes survey or review data and recommends relevant OKRs to help align your team's goals with the insights gained from feedback.

Open Jobs Visibility

The latest update introduces the ability to share open job requisitions with ease, allowing you to collaborate seamlessly with your team. This feature makes it simple to distribute job details without navigating to your ATS or sharing results manually. You can view the specifics of a job, such as title, responsibilities, and qualifications. This streamlined sharing process empowers team members to access and understand job opportunities quickly and efficiently.

Multiple Simultaneous Conversations

A big improvement, you can now work with multiple Nova agents at once! This feature gives you the flexibility to switch contexts without losing track of your active discussions. Each conversation opens in a separate thread, allowing easy access and management of interactions, enhancing your ability to multitask seamlessly in your communication workflow.

Organizational Knowledge Search

Enhance your search capabilities by accessing a repository of organizational knowledge, including HR information like your handbook, directly from the platform. This feature allows you to quickly find relevant documents, policies, and procedures within your organization's knowledge base, streamlining the process of discovering vital information.

What's up next?

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