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Nova AI Ops

The Multi-Agent OS
for SRE & DevOps

100+ autonomous AI agents. 13 safety gates. 300+ integrations.
Built for the teams who get paged at 3 AM.

Pre-seed · $2M round · Q3 2026
02 / 20

It's 3:14 AM.
Your phone is screaming.

The average SRE stack costs $300K–$1M/year. PagerDuty fires 500+ alerts per week. Mean time to resolve: 47 minutes. Meanwhile, engineers burn out and quit.

$300K+
Annual SRE tooling spend (mid-size)
47 min
Industry average MTTR
500+
Alerts per week (typical)
40%
SRE burnout rate

The incumbents were built for dashboards and humans on-call. The world has moved to AI agents — but the infrastructure hasn't.

03 / 20

Why now?

AI Cost Curve

100x cheaper in 18 months

Frontier model costs dropped from $60/M tokens to $0.60. Multi-agent systems that were economically impossible in 2024 are now viable at scale.

Model Capabilities

Agents can reason, not just respond

Claude, Gemini, and GPT-4 can now follow multi-step playbooks, parse logs, and execute remediation with human-level judgment.

Market Shift

Observability → Autonomous Ops

Datadog and PagerDuty bolt on AI. We built for it from day one. The category is "Agentic SRE" and it doesn't exist yet.

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The Multi-Agent OS
for SRE & DevOps

100+ AI agent personas organized into 16 specialized teams. 78 active in the production orchestrator. Each agent has a defined role, expertise domain, and tier-appropriate model assignment.

78
Active agent personas in orchestrator
16
Specialized teams
300+
Native integrations
13
Production safety gates
Incident Response

Autonomous Triage & Remediation

Incident Commander, Auto-Remediation, Escalation Manager, and SLA Guardian work together to resolve incidents without waking humans.

Observability AI

Anomaly Detection → Root Cause

Pattern Miner, Correlation Engine, and Root Cause Analyzer process metrics, logs, and traces to pinpoint issues in seconds.

Platform Governance

Policy, Quotas, Compliance

Policy Enforcer, Quota Manager, and Compliance Officer ensure every agent action meets organizational standards.

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Three surfaces.
One platform.

WEB DASHBOARD

639 pages. Real-time war rooms.

React + TypeScript + Socket.IO. Full incident management, agent activity, integration health, cost tracking, and team dashboards. Every metric live via WebSocket.

NOVA CLI

120+ CLI tools. Ship from terminal.

Manage incidents, query agents, drill into metrics, manage runbooks, control escalations, and configure integrations — all without leaving the terminal.

NOVA SHELL AGENT

1,438 lines. 800+ metrics per tick.

Production bash agent for Linux, macOS, Windows. Collects CPU, memory, disk, network, GPU, Docker, and auto-discovers running services. Zero dependencies.

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How we're different.

CapabilityDatadog / PagerDutySingle-agent wrappersNova AI Ops
Multi-agent orchestration1 agent78 agents, 16 teams
Multi-model routing1 model4 providers, 3 tiers, circuit breakers
Safety gatesBasic RBAC13 production gates
Post-remediation verificationT+5m/1h/24h probes, auto kill-switch
Digital-twin dry-runSimulate before execute
Consensus votingMulti-agent proposals, human override
Native integrations700+~20300+ (323 connector files)
Pricing (10-seat team)$200K+/yr$5K–$20K/yr$3,480/yr Standard
07 / 20

Competitive landscape.

We've analyzed 75 competitors. The market splits on two axes: AI-native vs bolt-on, and single-agent vs multi-agent OS.

AI-Native
Bolt-on AI
Single Agent
Multi-Agent OS
Datadog Bits AI
PagerDuty AIOps
Cleric AI
Causely
Nova AI Ops
08 / 20

Why this is defensible.

09 / 20

13 production safety gates.

Every agent action passes through multiple gates before it touches production. Every decision is logged for audit.

GATE 01

Kill Switch

Three-scope emergency brake: agent, tenant, or global. Arm/disarm with full audit trail.

GATE 02

Prompt Injection Defense

~20 regex patterns, severity ladder (none→critical), quarantine table for forensics.

GATE 03

Cost Circuit Breaker

Configurable spend ceilings per tenant. Auto-halt on breach. Budget check before every LLM call.

GATE 04

Error Budget / SLO Gate

Policy matrix: risk level × budget remaining. Blocks risky actions when error budget is depleted.

GATE 05

Tenant Isolation

Defense-in-depth: org_id on all tables, middleware verification, violation recording.

GATE 06

Ground Truth Verifier

T+5m, T+1h, T+24h post-remediation probes. Auto kill-switch on critical regression.

GATE 07

Consensus Arbiter

Multi-agent proposals, resolution voting, human override for escalated ties.

GATE 08

Simulation Engine

Digital-twin dry-run: service graph snapshot, step handlers, risk scoring before execution.

GATE 09

Counterfactual Replay

Replay past incidents with alternative actions to validate agent decision quality.

GATE 10

Dangerous Command Guard

Pattern-match destructive commands (rm -rf, DROP TABLE, kubectl delete) before execution.

GATE 11

Blast Radius Guard

Estimate impact scope before any remediation. Block actions affecting too many services.

GATE 12

Context Redactor

Strip secrets, PII, and credentials from agent context before LLM calls.

+ Gate 13: Prompt Egress Scanner — scans outbound prompts for data leakage
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The Cost Manager moat.

Not a wrapper around one frontier model. An inference orchestration layer that routes the cheapest capable model per task and fails over automatically.

TIERED ROUTING

Right model, right task

Opus (8192 tokens) for Incident Commander and RCA. Sonnet (4096) for most agents. Haiku (1024) for scribe and summary. Per-agent tier assignment, not one-size-fits-all.

4-PROVIDER FALLBACK

Circuit breakers + auto-failover

Anthropic → Google Gemini → DeepSeek → OpenAI. Circuit breaker opens after 5 failures, 60s reset. No single provider can take down the system.

LLM TELEMETRY

Every call logged and costed

Provider, model, input/output tokens, latency, cost estimate — recorded to SQLite and broadcast via WebSocket in real time. Full audit trail for compliance.

File: backend/src/core/aiModelRouter.js · backend/src/core/llmTelemetry.js

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Pre-revenue, not pre-usage

Real users on day 60+.

69
Organic signups, unpaid
32
Active product users
3,632
Unique site visitors
20
Demo bookings
Backed by the platforms we're built on
Confluent Databricks Google for Startups NVIDIA Inception MongoDB for Startups Redis for Startups AWS Activate
12 / 20

Pricing that wins.

Free

$0
forever · 1 seat
  • 10 agents
  • 7-day retention
  • Community support
  • Core integrations

Standard

$50
/user/mo · up to 3 users
  • 25 agents
  • 30-day retention
  • Email support
  • All integrations

Enterprise

Custom
unlimited seats
  • 100 agents
  • 1-year+ retention
  • Dedicated CSM
  • SCIM provisioning
  • SLA guarantees
  • HIPAA BAA

Annual discount: 20%. Multi-year: 22% (2yr), 30% (3yr) on Enterprise.

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$6.8B bottom-up TAM.

The SRE and DevOps tooling market is massive and fragmented. The average mid-size team spends $300K–$1M/year across observability, incident management, and automation.

$200K+
Datadog avg contract/yr
$50–100K
PagerDuty avg contract/yr
$300K–$1M
Total SRE stack per team/yr
68K+
Companies with SRE teams (est.)

Nova replaces or consolidates 3–5 tools in the stack. The wedge is incident response; the platform absorbs observability, runbooks, and cost management.

14 / 20

Go-to-market: PLG wedge.

1. Wedge
Free tier → first auto-resolved incident → "it just fixed itself" moment. Developer signs up, installs agent, connects PagerDuty. First value in under 5 minutes.
2. Expand
Team invites colleagues. Standard tier unlocks 25 agents, 30-day retention, and team dashboards. Usage-based expansion within the org.
3. Platform
Enterprise conversation. SSO/SAML, SCIM, tenant isolation, SLA guarantees. Nova replaces 3–5 tools and becomes the ops backbone.

SEO moat: 75 competitor comparison pages, 2,289 technical blog posts, owning "Agentic SRE" SERP.

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The team.

Dr. Samson Tanimawo

Founder, CEO & CTO

SRE with 10+ years at JPMorgan Chase and the US Navy. PhD, MSc, MBA. Built the entire platform.

Lashae Tanimawo

Co-Founder & CMO

Brand, content, and go-to-market strategy. Driving the PLG motion and community growth.

Ikechukwu Ofeweke

Chief Strategy Officer

M.Eng, PMP. Enterprise partnerships, strategic planning, and investor relations.

Jennifer Broxson

Head of AI Strategy & BD

AI strategy, business development, and key account management.

Alim Mohammad

Founding AI Engineer

Core agent development, model routing, and safety gate implementation.

Hiring: 3 planned — Senior Backend Engineer, ML Engineer, DevRel.

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Architecture depth.

This is not a demo. Every layer has real code, real tests, and real infrastructure.

1,282
Backend source files
910
Frontend source files
645
API route files
323
Integration connector files
DATA LAYER

Multi-tenant from day one

SQLite (WAL) with Postgres dialect translator. org_id on all tables. 7 migration files. Audit ledger, LLM event log, isolation violation tracking.

OBSERVABILITY

OpenTelemetry + Jaeger

Full OTEL SDK with auto-instrumentation. Jaeger/OTLP exporters. Prometheus metrics. Structured logging. Self-monitoring.

INFRASTRUCTURE

K8s + Blue-Green Deploy

Kustomize manifests with dev/staging/prod overlays. HPA auto-scaling. Nginx blue-green traffic switching with health checks. GitHub Actions CI/CD.

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Credibility signals.

STARTUP PROGRAMS

7 programs accepted

Confluent, Databricks, Google for Startups, NVIDIA Inception, MongoDB for Startups, Redis for Startups, AWS Activate.

COMPLIANCE

SOC 2 Type II in progress

GDPR and CCPA live. HIPAA BAA on request. Controls modeled on AICPA Trust Services Criteria and ISO 27001 Annex A. DPA available.

SECURITY

Enterprise-grade from launch

TLS 1.3, AES-256 at rest, SAML 2.0 SSO (Okta, Azure AD, Google, JumpCloud), SCIM, MFA, API keys with prefix-based lookup, IP whitelisting.

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Risks & mitigations.

No revenue yet

Pre-revenue by design — PLG requires product-market fit before monetization. 69 organic signups validate demand.

→ First paid conversions targeted Q3 2026

Small team (5 people)

Founder built the entire 2,000+ file codebase. Team is lean but the architecture is production-grade.

→ 3 hires planned with round proceeds

Test coverage is thin

44 test files for 2,000+ source files. Safety gates and core path are the priority.

→ Prioritizing safety gate + integration tests in Q3

Incumbents could build this

Datadog and PagerDuty have the data. But their architecture is dashboard-first, not agent-first. Retooling is a multi-year effort.

→ 13 safety gates + 78 agents = 18+ months head start
19 / 20

The ask.

Round size
$2M
Pre-seed, open
Lead indicated
$1M
Gacsym Ventures (verbal)
Close target
Q3 2026
Matches at $1M co-invested
Instrument
SAFE
or priced, founder-friendly

Use of funds

60%

Engineering

3 hires: Senior Backend, ML Engineer, DevRel. Accelerate agent library, test coverage, and integrations.

25%

Go-to-Market

PLG infrastructure, content, community, and first enterprise pilots.

15%

Infrastructure

SOC 2 completion, multi-region deploy, and compliance certifications.

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Nova AI Ops

Let's talk.

The Multi Agent Operating System for SRE, DevOps, and Reliability Teams.
13 safety gates. 300+ integrations. Production-grade.

Dr. Samson Tanimawo · Founder, CEO & CTO
samson@novaaiops.com · novaaiops.com
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