Nova Stories

NOVA is an end-to-end internal experiment: a friendly AI storyteller living inside an app, built so families and children can bring new stories to life and keep changing them as they go. Guided prompts, a purpose-built interface, and stories made out of a shared imagination rather than a text box.

We gave NOVA a character. An inquisitive, interactive presence that lives in the app and shows itself as five dynamic lines, moving as it speaks and appearing at the points in the story where it's actually needed.

The idea came from a frustration. AI keeps arriving as a generalised chat interface, when what most people need is a purpose-built one: a guided path toward a particular outcome. Here that means parents and children making stories together, in a secure, ring-fenced place built for them.

It also had to prove something commercial. NOVA is a working example of an AI product that stands up as a business, with a paid model that's fair to the customer and profitable to run. We built it out properly: a brand, a live iOS app, a commercial model and a marketing site.