Money

NOVA AI business assistantNumina ReceiptsAthena Accounting Books and SST

Customers

Athena Support Website assistantAI Receptionist Calls, chat, email

Operations

Athena Dispatch Job softwareWorkshop Hub Workshop management

People

Athena People HR and payroll

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How Athena works.

Athena is the AI workforce inside every AthenaLab product. This page explains what it does, where it stops, and how we build custom systems on the same rules.

Four moves, product by product.

The details differ from one product to the next. The order does not.

  1. Understand

    Athena reads the document, message or request and works out what it is.

  2. Decide

    It prepares the next step, shows its reasoning and flags what it is unsure about.

  3. Act

    It carries out the step. Where the product needs your approval, it waits for it.

  4. Report

    It updates your records and tells you what changed.

What that looks like, product by product.

NOVAReads a receipt, invoice or bill. Shows what it found. Saves it when you confirm. Answers questions from your books.NOVA
NuminaReads a receipt photo. Categorises it. Files it into your own Google Drive and Sheets.Numina
Athena AccountingReads a document or bank line. Drafts the entry with its evidence. Posts only after you approve.Athena Accounting
Athena SupportReads a visitor's question. Answers from approved knowledge, or says it is unsure and raises a ticket.Athena Support
Athena PeoplePrepares the pay run and explains it. The system calculates. Your team approves. Limited beta.Athena People
Athena DispatchDrafts the quote. Your customer approves it by phone. The job moves across the board to paid.Athena Dispatch
AI ReceptionistA managed service designed to answer, book and triage on calls, web chat and email, and hand over to a person.AI Receptionist

Where AI stops.

The parts that must be exact are not left to a language model.

  • Software calculates

    Athena Accounting posts through a real double-entry engine. In Athena People, statutory amounts are calculated by the system, not written by AI.

  • People approve

    Entries, e-Invoices and saved documents wait for a person. That is how the products are built, not a setting.

  • Knowledge is approved

    Athena Support answers only from the knowledge you have given it, and tells the visitor when it does not know.

  • Reasoning is visible

    Athena Accounting attaches the source, the evidence and a confidence score to what it suggests.

Custom AI systems.

For the task no product covers, and for joining products together. We work the other way round from most software: we do the setup, and you approve it.

  1. We map your busywork

    A free conversation about where your hours go: the messages, receipts, quotes and chasing.

  2. We scope and quote

    You get a scope and the price before any work starts.

  3. We set it up with you

    Built around your own workflows, documents and channels, and walked through before it goes live.

  4. You approve, it goes live

    Nothing goes live until you have approved it.

Questions, answered plainly.

Is Athena one system I log into?

Not today. Athena is the AI workforce across the AthenaLab products, and each product has its own sign-in and works on its own. If you want them joined up, that is custom work we scope and quote first.

Does Athena act without asking?

It depends on the product. In Athena Accounting nothing posts without approval, and NOVA saves a document only after you confirm it. Numina files a receipt when you snap it. Athena Support answers from approved knowledge and hands over when it is unsure.

Where does my data go?

It depends on the product. Numina files into your own Google Drive and Sheets. NOVA keeps your books in a workbook you can download. See our privacy policy for how data is handled.

What does custom work cost?

It is scoped per business. We scope the task free of charge and quote the price before anything is built.

Have a task no product covers?

Tell us what it is. We will scope it free and quote the price before any work starts.

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