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September 29, 2026

A new home for research that ships

Every year, Europe funds brilliant AI research that never reaches the people it was meant to serve. It gets written up, peer-reviewed, presented — and then it sits in a PDF. At Novelcore, closing that gap is the whole point of what we do. Today we're launching a new website that finally shows it properly.

This is the first post on our new news page, so here's a short tour of what you'll find, and why we built it the way we did.

Research in, products out

Novelcore is a team of 30+ researchers and engineers in Athens. We work across a single pipeline: we research inside European consortiums, we engineer the hard parts — knowledge graphs, machine learning, explainable AI — and we ship the results as products that people actually use. No prototypes left on a shelf.

The new site is organised around that idea. Instead of a list of services, it follows the work from research to production, and lets you go as deep as you want.

What's on the new site

Projects — Our research portfolio, in one place for the first time. There are 19 projects across Horizon Europe, EU4Health, the Internal Security Fund, the EIT HEI Initiative and Greece 2.0. They cover democracy and eGov, health, climate, education, heritage, security, IoT, agriculture and entrepreneurship. You can filter by domain. Each project page explains what the consortium is trying to achieve and, more importantly, what our role in it is — including AIXPERT, which we coordinate.

Products — Two products that came out of that research and now run in production:

  • dlbrt. — AI-powered public deliberation. It helps institutions collect feedback at any scale, cluster themes and consensus with AI, and produce auditable, legally defensible reports. It grew out of our work on AI-enhanced e-deliberation.
  • KAOS — the Kubecore Agentic Operating System. It's a Kubernetes-native, LLM-enhanced platform for building, deploying and running software across multiple clouds, with GitOps-driven management built in.

Who we are — What it's like to work here, from the surface down to the core. Our people publish in academic journals and ship production systems — often the same person, working on the same problem. We call it the dual byline.

News — You're reading it. This is where we'll share project milestones, product updates, papers and the occasional behind-the-scenes look at how we work.

Small details we care about

A website about trustworthy technology should respect the people using it. So a few things are built in from day one:

  • Light, dark or system theme. Use the button in the top bar. "System" follows your device settings and changes along with them.
  • Readable in both themes. Text and background colours meet WCAG AA contrast in light and dark mode.
  • Reduced motion respected. If your device asks for less animation, the orbit in the background stays still. (If it doesn't, try clicking the core.)
  • Content managed in the open. Projects, products and posts come from our CMS, so the site stays current as the work moves on.

What's next

Our Horizon Europe projects are living labs, where ideas meet real institutions and real citizens, and there's a lot happening in them. In the coming months we'll use this space to share results from those projects, walk through how dlbrt. and KAOS evolve, and introduce some of the people behind the work.

If you're a public institution, a research partner or an engineer who wants their name in the journal and the changelog, we'd love to hear from you. Get in touch or write to us at info@novelcore.eu.

Welcome to the new Novelcore.