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Not another AI wrapper. A genuine operating system with memory, governance, and autonomous execution.
The way companies work is about to change fundamentally.
AI agents are moving from tools humans use to colleagues humans work alongside. Novact is the infrastructure that makes that transition real — not as a chat wrapper, but as a genuine operating system with memory, governance, and autonomous execution.
We believe the companies that thrive in the next decade will be the ones that learn to operate with mixed human-AI teams. They will need systems that remember context across months, enforce decisions across agents, execute work overnight, and produce an audit trail that satisfies regulators.
That is what we are building.
The AI moment
Three things had to be true before an AI operating system could exist. All three are true now.
Models are capable enough
Foundation models can now maintain persistent identities, follow complex multi-step instructions, and produce production-quality output. The capability threshold for autonomous agents has been crossed.
The cost curve enables always-on
Token costs have dropped by orders of magnitude in two years. Running a five-agent workforce overnight is now cheaper than a single contractor hour. The economics finally work.
Governance is the bottleneck
Every enterprise adopting AI agents hits the same wall: who approved that action? Where is the audit trail? Can we prove compliance? The need for governed AI infrastructure is acute and unsolved.
The people behind Novact
Mark Lyon
CEO & Founder
Former operator who got tired of watching AI tools forget everything between sessions. Building Novact from Rancho Santa Margarita, CA.
Katie Schaar Lyon
CRO & Co-founder
Revenue leader and co-founder of Beach Media. Bringing the enterprise go-to-market playbook to Novact.
Ed Chen
CTO
Joined March 2026. Building the platform infrastructure. Former engineering lead scaling multi-tenant systems.
And a growing team of agents and humans
Five named AI agents — Maren, Brue, Nova, Tuck, and Claude Code — work alongside the founding team every day. They draft specs, review code, orchestrate deployments, curate knowledge, and ship features overnight.
Location
Novact Inc is headquartered in Land O' Lakes, Florida. The team is distributed across the US.
Join us
We are building something that changes how companies operate. If that sounds interesting, we would love to hear from you.