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An AI Assistant Product to Rival the Category Leaders

We helped a startup ship a competitive AI assistant product, a governed RAG platform with agents, citations and analytics, going head-to-head with far larger incumbents on accuracy and trust.

Nova AI
92
%
answer accuracy
3.5
x
faster onboarding
<800
ms
median response
hallucinated citations

The Challenge

Nova AI wanted to enter a crowded market dominated by well-funded incumbents. To win, they couldn’t out-spend, they had to out-trust: an assistant that answers accurately from a customer’s own knowledge, cites its sources, and can be governed and audited by the enterprises they were selling to.

Our Solution

We built a production-grade AI platform: a hybrid-search RAG pipeline with reranking and citations, task-specific agents that act across connected tools, and a full evaluation harness so every release is measured for faithfulness. Governance, guardrails and observability made it enterprise-ready, the differentiator that closed deals.

  • Hybrid-search RAG with citations
  • Task-specific AI agents
  • Continuous evaluation harness
  • Guardrails & permissions
  • Usage analytics & observability
  • Enterprise SSO & audit logs
“Tanco gave us the one thing money can’t fake in this market: an assistant enterprises actually trust.”
Elias Kim
Co-founder & CTO, Nova AI

The Result

Nova AI came away with more than a project, a durable asset that keeps paying off. We continue to support and evolve the platform as their business grows. Want results like these?