Most talk about AI at work treats it as a tool that helps people do their existing jobs faster. Drawing on Jim Scully’s forthcoming book The AI-Native Business, Kelley Steven-Waiss argues the real shift is bigger: AI is dismantling the idea that jobs are the right unit of organization at all — and that puts HR in the role of enterprise architect.

You know you’ve been in HR tech a long time when you’re encouraging people to replace the systems you designed yourself.

In an interview with Tavares Beverly for Authority Magazine, Novaworks co-founder and CEO Kelley Steven-Waiss shares how CEOs and business leaders can build and lead high-performing executive teams.

At the beginning of every week, workers experience a technology downgrade. During the weekend, they use apps that remember their preferences, anticipate what they need, and respond in seconds. Then they come to the office and log in to legacy systems that assume they’re identical to everyone else at the company.

Novaworks has been named a winner of the inaugural HR Tech Breakthrough Awards, earning recognition for Core HR Innovation in the Core HR and HRIS Technology category — a milestone that validates our vision for AI-native total workforce management.

Today’s workforce is no longer made up solely of full-time employees—it’s a portfolio of employees, contractors, contingent talent, and AI agents working side by side. Yet no executive owns how that entire workforce is orchestrated, governed, and equipped to thrive. The Chief Work Officer fills that gap, taking responsibility for how work moves across people, intelligent agents, departments, and systems. This isn’t a rebrand of the CHRO; it’s a new leadership role built for a new reality—and one that could soon become essential across the Fortune 500.

Novaworks launches its Advisory Board: CHROs, CIOs, and ServiceNow leaders helping shape an AI-native operating system for Total Workforce Management.

Most organizations think they have an HR problem. What we’ve learned through our design partner work is that they actually have an opportunity visibility problem.

Nova Operating System Enables HR and IT to Partner to Improve Business Outcomes Across the Entire Organization; Company Announces New Design Partner, Ateko

The Novaworks launch adds a fresh angle to the ServiceNow (NYSE:NOW) story by bringing AI driven Human Capital Management directly onto the core platform.

Pioneer of modern HCM joins as Novaworks builds the Total Workforce Management operating system for the AI era

Novaworks launches the first agentic operating system for Total Workforce Management and closes an $8M seed round led by Stalwart Ventures, with participation from ServiceNow Ventures and Bell Ventures.

Legacy HCM was built for a static workforce that no longer exists and the operating model we've lived by needs to change too.

Every major enterprise system today is the product of path dependence. Here's the founding philosophy behind Novaworks.

Core HCM is one of the stickiest tech decisions a company can make. But the workforce has changed, AI has changed what's possible.