NOVARC — Zürich
AI that augments,sharpens,extends,amplifies, not replaces.
We build AI — models, agents, and tools — designed to make people more capable, never obsolete.
Convenience is the industry default. Capability is ours.
The dominant trajectory in AI is delegation — systems that think so you don't have to. NOVARC takes the opposite position: models, agents, and tools engineered so that using them leaves you sharper, faster, and more capable than before.
What we build.
Models
Reasoning-first AI models, built and evaluated for how well they extend the people using them — not how completely they replace them.
Agents
Agentic systems that act with you: they absorb the busywork, surface the decisions, and keep judgment where it belongs — with the human.
Products
Instruments for thinking and working, shipped under one roof. The first ships in 2026.
Join the waitlist →Four principles, held everywhere.
Augment, never replace
Every system must leave its user more capable when it is removed — never more dependent.
Judgment stays human
Agents can carry the work. Deciding what matters is never delegated.
Make reasoning visible
If a process can't be inspected, it can't be trusted. We expose the steps, not just the verdict.
Measure capability, not engagement
Success is what a person can do after using the system — not the time they spend inside it.
The cost of convenience is measurable.
LLM-assisted writing shows reduced neural connectivity and weaker memory of one's own work.
MIT Media Lab · 2025
Higher confidence in AI is associated with reduced critical thinking.
Microsoft × Carnegie Mellon · 2025
participants wrote essays under EEG across three groups.
MIT Media Lab · 2025
of LLM users couldn't quote their own essay minutes later.
MIT Media Lab · 2025
knowledge workers surveyed on GenAI and critical thinking.
Microsoft × CMU · CHI 2025
first-hand GenAI work tasks analyzed in the study.
Microsoft × CMU · CHI 2025
Neural connectivity while writing — strongest to weakest
MIT Media Lab · EEG, 54 participants
Ordering as reported; bar lengths illustrative.
Higher confidence in AI less critical thinking.
Higher self-confidence is associated with more of it. The relationship is the finding — and the design problem.
Lee et al. · CHI 2025
One company. Every build.
NOVARC is the house everything is built under — one entity, one identity, many products over time. Each build adds to the same record: the research compounds, the craft compounds, the trust compounds.
Engineering intelligence · Zürich