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.