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