NovaAI, founded by Daniel Roberts and Sana Malik, has launched autonomous customer support agents designed specifically for startups — targeting the gap between expensive enterprise-grade automation and basic chatbots that fail on anything nuanced.
Roberts and Malik are betting that startups represent an underserved segment: companies with real customer support loads but without the budget or engineering bandwidth to build bespoke AI solutions. NovaAI’s agents learn from existing support tickets and escalate to humans when confidence is low.
The startup-specific positioning creates a defensible wedge. If NovaAI can establish high switching costs through trained models and workflow integrations, early adopters become a durable revenue base.







