Nova: AI financial intelligence for construction
Nova is an AI-driven financial intelligence tool built specifically for construction contractors and subcontractors. It connects directly to the ERP a company already runs, then lets finance and operations teams ask questions about their own job cost, WIP, and cash data in plain language and get a direct answer back.
The starting point is a chat window instead of a report builder. A controller can ask why margin moved on a job. A PM can ask what's left in a cost code. An owner can ask which jobs are driving cash. Nova reads the live data behind the question and responds, so the work of pulling, exporting, and reformatting numbers goes away.
Nova works in English and Spanish.
What Nova does
→ Answers natural-language questions about job cost, WIP, AR, and cash position using live ERP data
→ Builds WIP charts and views from a plain-language request, with no report configuration
→ Generates daily reports from voice input, so field and project staff can capture the day without typing
→ Extracts line items from invoices and turns them into structured data
→ Drafts AR collection emails against real outstanding balances
→ Supports follow-up questions in the same thread, so users can drill from a summary into phase or cost-code detail
Built on construction data, not adapted to it
Nova is built around the accounting and project structures contractors actually use: job costing, cost codes and phases, WIP and percent complete, retainage, change orders, pay applications, and AR aging. Questions get interpreted in those terms rather than generic financial ones.
That matters most in the places where construction accounting differs from everything else. Over- and under-billings, revenue recognition against percent complete, and retainage sitting outside normal AR are all native concepts in Nova, not workarounds.
ERP integrations
Nova connects to the systems construction finance teams already use, so there is no migration and no duplicate data entry:
→ Foundation
→ Sage 300
→ Sage 100
→ Sage Intacct
→ Vista
→ Spectrum
→ Acumatica
→ QuickBooks Online
→ ComputerEase
Who uses Nova
Nova is designed for commercial contractors in the United States, both general contractors and specialty and heavy/highway subcontractors, typically in the $10M to $100M revenue range.
→ CFOs and controllers use it to investigate WIP movement, margin variance, and cash position without waiting on a report cycle
→ CEOs and owners use it for direct answers on job performance and cash without going through the finance team first
→ Project managers use it to check budget against actuals at the cost-code level and capture daily reports by voice
→ Finance and accounting staff use it for AR follow-up, invoice data entry, and recurring reporting work
Where Nova fits in the ProNovos platform
Nova sits alongside the rest of the ProNovos platform, which contractors can use together or independently:
→ 13-Week Cash Flow Forecasting, a forecasting tool built around construction billing and payment cycles
→ QuickPay Direct, spot factoring on individual invoices that preserves line-of-credit utilization and bonding capacity
→ QuickPay, which lets general contractors offer subcontractors early payment at no cost to the GC, with rebates tied to repayment speed
About ProNovos
ProNovos was founded in 2019 to bring modern financial intelligence to an industry that has run on spreadsheets and manual reporting for decades. The company has been building for construction finance teams since well before the current wave of AI tools arrived, and Nova reflects that history: it was designed against years of real contractor data and workflows.
Founder and CEO Bruce Orr spent 20+ years leading analytics at Fortune 100 companies and served three years on CFMA's Executive Committee. The product and sales leadership team brings direct construction and subcontractor experience.
Getting started
Free trial: https://pronovos.com/nova
Talk to the team: https://pronovos.com/demo
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