# navNote

> navNote is an early-stage enterprise software company building an AI operations layer for physical retail. Its mobile and web products turn store visits, shelf photographs, location signals, and operational records into audits, prioritized tasks, and management answers. Its sharpest differentiator is deployment flexibility: the system can run in the cloud, in a hybrid setup, or as eight microservices installed on retailer-controlled hardware in roughly six minutes.

- **Founded:** 2025
- **Headquarters:** San Jose, United States
- **Founders:** Esmaeil Mousavi (Founder), Niklas Kennedy (Co-Founder)
- **Products:** navNote mobile app, navNote web dashboard, Agentic AI copilot, Computer-vision shelf audits, navNote on-premise
- **Notable:** Shipped native iOS and Android apps plus a synchronized web dashboard., Reached a first live retail deployment used for audits and price checks., Built an eight-microservice on-premise stack that the company says installs in roughly six minutes.

## Products & services

- **navNote mobile app** — Native iOS and Android software for store and field teams to manage visits, capture photo evidence, receive tasks, and work with location-aware workflows.
- **navNote web dashboard** — A synchronized operations console for managers to monitor stores, regions, field teams, audits, pricing, promotions, and task completion.
- **Agentic AI copilot** — A natural-language interface that answers questions over operations data and can take actions such as assigning tasks, generating reports, and updating records.
- **Computer-vision shelf audits** — Single-photo analysis for planogram compliance, out-of-stock detection, price verification, and promotion or display compliance.
- **navNote on-premise** — Eight native microservices on mimik’s mimOE runtime, offered for cloud, hybrid, or fully retailer-controlled deployment.

## Achievements

- Shipped native iOS and Android apps plus a synchronized web dashboard.
- Reached a first live retail deployment used for audits and price checks.
- Built an eight-microservice on-premise stack that the company says installs in roughly six minutes.
- Selected for the Perplexity Business Fellowship.
- Showcased at OpenAI hackathons.
- Included in TechBuzz News’ Wave V chart of Utah technology companies founded since 2022.
- Grew the company LinkedIn page to roughly 1,400 followers by September 2026.

## Latest updates

- **2026-09** — Published company commentary on the transformer paper and its influence on modern AI products.
- **2026-08** — Published the product lesson from Todd Kammeyer: usefulness to the person on the floor became navNote’s recurring test.
- **2026-08** — Launched The Retail AI Brief and published its argument that retail has a visibility problem.
- **2026-08** — Announced Bay Area activity, Plug and Play participation, and the company’s San Jose base.
- **2026-05** — Released iOS version 1.1 with improved augmented-reality features, visual refinements, and performance improvements.

## Links

- Website: https://www.navnote.ai/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/navnote/
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/navNoteHQ
- GitHub: https://github.com/navNoteUSA
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@navNote-LLC
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/navNoteAI

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Last updated: 2026-09-23