Before discovering Denovo I had plenty of ideas but lacked the technical skills to turn them into reality. I've been able to create Property Powwow Community — a people-first property education platform with courses, memberships, webinars, directories, mentor profiles and payment systems. As someone living with Multiple Sclerosis, accessibility, energy management and efficiency are incredibly important to me — Denovo has helped me achieve things that simply wouldn't have been realistic for me to build alone. The platform isn't perfect — no technology is — but the speed of development, the flexibility, and the opportunities it creates are remarkable.
NJ AI Innovation Challenge
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237 innovative startups transforming New Jersey with AI
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GlucoSync
GlucoSync
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Diabetes places a growing burden on New Jersey’s healthcare system, affecting patients across urban, suburban, and long‑term care settings while straining an already limited specia...
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Prosperi Corp.
Prosperi Corp.
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Prosperi is building an AI-powered guidance counseling platform that unifies fragmented student data into a single source of truth and turns it into actionable data-driven insights...
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AIntropy AI
AIntropy AI
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Enterprises fail to take 95% of enterprise AI use cases to production because of low accuracy. A root cause of the low accuracy is the proprietary domain-specific knowledge spannin...
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InfraSync
InfraSync
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InfraSync The No-Code, AI Infrastructure Platform InfraSync.io is a revolutionary no-code infrastructure management platform that empowers teams to design, deploy, and govern cloud...
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AgentGov
AgentGov Integrity is an AI-powered fraud detection platform designed specifically for state and local government agencies. The platform combines conversational AI agents and machi...
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Scholera
Scholera
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Scholera is an AI-powered learning intelligence platform built to fix what is fundamentally broken in higher education today. Across New Jersey, universities rely on legacy Learnin...
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ClimateChain-NJ: AI-Powered Supply Chain Resilience for Weather and Climate Risk
ClimateChain-NJ: AI-Powered Supply Chain Resilience for Weather and Climate Risk
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ClimateChain-NJ applies GeoAI methods to build a digital twin of supply chain networks that predicts how weather and climate hazards propagate into operational disruptions. Weather...
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ilika Geospatial
ilika Geospatial
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New Jersey households are facing sustained increases in electricity bills driven by peak demand growth, extreme weather volatility, and conservative grid planning practices in the ...
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CardioLink Technologies
CardioLink Technologies
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CardioLink is an explainable, decision-support clinical intelligence platform for cardiovascular care in public and enterprise healthcare systems. It is a \"glass-box\" system, not...
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NJSecure ORBIT Cyber Graph
NJSecure ORBIT Cyber Graph
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NJSecure.org is a developing non-profit initiative designed to protect New Jersey’s community banks from sophisticated, AI-driven cyber threats by offering enterprise-grade securit...
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7 Generations Prevention Program
7 Generations Prevention Program
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Project Description – NJ AI Plug & Play Grant Aiyana is an Indigenous-led artificial intelligence platform designed to address systemic gaps in public data, community safety, and e...
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AB.AI Sentinel v4 (Abundance Behavioral LLC).
AB.AI Sentinel v4 (Abundance Behavioral LLC).
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In high-acuity inpatient units, clinicians wear helmets and arm pads to survive sub-second head-directed aggressions and bites. I’ve been there. The mental load of manual data coll...
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AbilityHUB Inc.
New Jersey is facing a critical caregiving crisis; over 1 million family caregivers are currently overwhelmed by the demands of supporting aging or disabled loved ones, often with ...
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AccessNJ: AI‑Assisted SNAP Application & Document Support
SNAP Assist NJ is an AI‑enabled support solution designed to reduce application errors, documentation issues, and procedural delays in New Jersey’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistanc...
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AccessNJ: An AI Platform for Navigating New Jersey’s Public Benefit Programs
AccessNJ is a privacy-first, AI-powered platform designed to help New Jersey residents access public benefits they are entitled to but too often miss. Across major programs such as...
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Aerated LLC
Aerated LLC
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Municipalities across New Jersey are facing a relentless wave of phishing attacks and digital impersonation, with major security incidents occurring as recently as this month. Our ...
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AeroGuard AI: AI-Powered Air Traffic Communication Safety Intelligence
AeroGuard AI: AI-Powered Air Traffic Communication Safety Intelligence
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Air traffic control (ATC) communications represent one of the largest untapped safety datasets in aviation. Today, the industry relies on manual transcription and expert review per...
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Agentic Pharma
AI Agents for Biotechs
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Agentify
Agentify is a new SaaS platform that enables AI agents to operate within existing software systems—without requiring custom integrations, API development, or access to source code....
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Aggregation AI
Aggregation AI is an AI-powered platform that aggregates and synthesizes information across text, voice, and visual inputs to deliver accurate, context-aware insights. The project ...
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AhaSphere AI - Making Happiness Happen
AhaSphere AI - Making Happiness Happen
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AIXosphere presents AhaSphere, a collaborative agentic AI application designed to enhance holistic well-being and happiness, and provide support for behavioral healthcare in New Je...
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AI Document Portal
AI Document Portal
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Document Portal — Project Description The Problem Government agencies ingest thousands of PDFs daily - financial disclosures, permits, contracts, inspection reports. PDFs are semi-...
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Is Denovo easier to use than Claude Code? Yes — by ten feet. Denovo has its quirks (what platform doesn't?), but what stands out is how responsive the team is. Every time we hit a bug, someone is on it. Credits keep flowing while they sort things out. It doesn't feel like “customer support” — it feels like being part of the team. That's rare. And it's why we're still building here.
Denovo has given me a place to create, a place to make my dreams and the ideas in my head a reality. I tried to learn to code but I have issues retaining what I read, so learning to code didn't work at all for me. I've used other platforms that claim to do the same thing as Denovo — none of them have been as easy to use, and none of them have provided such a complete business model. They also cost a lot more. I think you are brilliant and I am very grateful for Denovo.