Every Nova Answer Shows You Why to Trust It.
A Confidence Card appears with every Nova response — showing source strength, knowledge age, owner, risk level, and whether the answer is grounded in approved organizational knowledge.
Why does the engine restart procedure exist?
Based on approved knowledge — the in-flight engine restart SOP requires verifying the thrust lever at idle, selecting ignition, and monitoring for EGT rise within 30 seconds. It exists because a 2024 in-flight shutdown debrief found crews were re-selecting ignition before the thrust lever was confirmed at idle, which delayed relight.
- 1Engine Restart in-flight SOPEng. Malik · approved Oct 2024
- 2In-flight Shutdown DebriefCapt. Hayes · approved Sep 2024
- High
- 0
- 330 days
- AUD-4417
A confidence percentage has no meaning without context.
Most AI systems express confidence as a probability. That number has no meaning without context: confidence in what? Based on what sources? Reviewed by whom? How old is the underlying information?
- AI answers that look confident but are ungrounded
- A fluent, confident-sounding AI output with no connection to approved organizational knowledge is indistinguishable from a well-sourced one — unless you have a Confidence Card.
- No visibility into source quality or freshness
- Without knowing the age and quality of the underlying sources, you cannot know whether the answer was based on a review that happened last week or two years ago.
- No link between answer and human-approved knowledge
- An AI answer from a general model and an AI answer from approved organizational knowledge look identical unless the system explicitly surfaces the difference.
Six fields. Everything you need to decide whether to act.
- Answer Status
- approved | partial | ungrounded | fast — whether Nova found approved records that match, found partial coverage, found nothing, or recognized an identity question not requiring knowledge retrieval.
- Source Strength
- high | medium | low | none — based on how semantically well the retrieved articles match your question. Computed from cosine-similarity scores at retrieval time.
- Knowledge Age
- Days since the most recent approved source was reviewed. Stale knowledge is flagged visually so you can decide whether to escalate for re-review.
- Owner
- The named knowledge owner of the primary source article. If no owner is assigned, the card shows unowned — which is itself a risk signal.
- Risk Level
- critical | high | moderate | low — computed from article criticality set by the reviewer, combined with staleness and ownership status.
Triage AI answers before they become decisions.
- Know when to act and when to escalate
- Confidence Cards give you the signal to act on a Nova answer immediately or escalate for human review — based on real source quality data, not AI-generated confidence scores.
- Surface stale or unowned knowledge
- A Confidence Card with a high knowledge age or an unowned source is a signal to review. You catch the gap before it affects a decision, not after.
- Brief leadership with evidence
- When you take a Nova answer into a leadership review, the Confidence Card is your evidence that the answer came from approved organizational knowledge — not a hallucination.
Can I act on a partial or ungrounded answer?
That is your decision as a qualified reviewer. Nova shows you the confidence level so you can make an informed judgment about whether to escalate.
Questions about Confidence Cards.
- What does 'approved' answer status mean?
- Nova found at least one approved organizational knowledge article that directly addresses your question, and used it as the primary source.
- What does 'ungrounded' mean?
- Nova could not find approved knowledge that matched your question. It will tell you what it cannot answer rather than fabricating a response.
- What is Risk Level based on?
- A combination of article criticality (set by the reviewer), staleness (days since last review), and whether the article has an assigned owner.
Start briefing with confidence.
Every Nova answer in DebriefCore includes a Confidence Card. No additional setup required.