Nova Browser Operator Manual — Hidden Features & Intelligence Shortcuts

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Nova Browser

Operator Manual

This is not a help article. This is the complete intelligence briefing for operators who use Nova Browser the way it was intended — extracting every signal from every page, moving faster than people who don't have this document.

Version 2.0 Engine: Claude Opus 4.8 Platform: Windows · macOS Classification: Subscriber Only

⚙️ Installation

After checkout, you'll receive a download link via email within minutes. The installer is self-contained — no admin privileges required on most systems.

1Download the installerWindows: NovaBrowser-Setup.exe · macOS: NovaBrowser.dmg 2Run the installerWindows: double-click and follow the wizard. macOS: open the DMG, drag to Applications. Install takes under 2 minutes. 3Launch Nova BrowserFind it in your Applications folder or Start Menu. On first launch, sign in with your Hypernova AI account credentials. 4Optional: Set as default browserOpen the Tools panel in the Nova sidebar → click "Set as Default Browser." Or from Windows Settings / macOS System Settings → Default Browser.

ℹ️Updates are delivered automatically. Nova Browser checks for updates at launch and installs them silently.

🚀 First Launch

The browser opens to a clean dark interface. The layout is: titlebar (top) → tab bar → address bar → web content. The Nova sidebar is off by default — press Ctrl+N (or click ◆ NOVA in the toolbar) to open it.

Everything important about Nova Browser lives in the sidebar. The sidebar has four panels:

• ◆ Nova — AI chat + one-click intelligence chips. This is where you run analyses and get answers.

• 🔖 Saved — Your bookmarks with AI search. Press Ctrl+D to save any page.

• 🕐 History — Full browsing history with AI-searchable titles and URLs.

• ⚡ Tools — Zoom controls, browser utilities, and direct access to all 16 intelligence tools organized by category.

◆ Nova AI Sidebar

The Nova sidebar is a live AI session tied to the current page you're viewing. It reads the page content, extracts relevant context, and responds with full page awareness.

Intelligence Chips

The chips at the top of the Nova panel are one-click shortcuts to the most-used intelligence operations. Clicking one immediately dispatches a specialized analysis request to Nova — no typing required.

Hot chips (marked with operator status): 👁 See Page, 🏢 Intel, 🎯 Leads — these three are the most operationally valuable on any site you visit.

Chat Interface

The input field at the bottom accepts any instruction. Nova has full context of:

• The current page — all visible text, links, metadata, and structure

• Your conversation history — within the current session

• Saved memory — if you've asked Nova to remember things in previous sessions

◈Pro tip: Ask Nova to "analyze this company and tell me everything I should know before a sales call." It will pull OSINT, competitors, leadership, and positioning in one shot.

⌨️ All Keyboard Shortcuts

Nova Browser supports all standard browser shortcuts plus an additional layer of intelligence shortcuts. The hidden operator shortcuts (Ctrl+Shift combos) are not shown in any UI — this document is the only place they're listed.

Standard Browser

◈ Hidden Operator Shortcuts

⚡These shortcuts are not documented anywhere in the browser UI. They work on any website you're viewing. Activate Operator Mode first (triple-click the logo) for enhanced output quality.

🔬 Intelligence Tools Reference

All 16 tools are available from the Nova sidebar chips, the Tools panel, or via keyboard shortcut. Every tool sends the full page content to Nova for analysis — you never need to copy-paste anything.

👁See Page (Nova Vision)Chip: "See Page" · Ctrl+Shift+VNova screenshots the current page and analyzes everything visually — layout, CTAs, content hierarchy, interactive elements. Tells you what a human would notice on first visit. 🏢OSINT Business IntelChip: "Intel" · Ctrl+Shift+OExtracts company intelligence from the page and cross-references: ownership, estimated revenue, personnel, funding signals, tech stack, weak points. 🎯Lead FinderChip: "Leads" · Ctrl+Shift+LEvery contact on the page — names, emails, phones, LinkedIn profiles, titles. Plus outreach recommendations for each person based on their role. 📋Competitor IntelChip: "Competitor" · Ctrl+Shift+IFull competitive breakdown: product strengths and weaknesses, pricing signals, marketing strategy, customer complaints, and how to out-position them. 📈SEO AuditorChip: "SEO"Title tags, meta descriptions, heading hierarchy, keyword density, schema markup, internal links, and 5 specific actionable improvements with priority ranking. 🛡Security ScannerChip: "Security" · Ctrl+Shift+SAudits the page for suspicious scripts, third-party trackers, phishing signals, SSL anomalies, and excessive data collection. Returns a 1-10 privacy risk score. 📊Data ExtractorChip: "Extract" · Ctrl+Shift+EPulls all structured data — tables, product listings, prices, contacts, stats — and formats as clean JSON. Copy directly into your spreadsheet or CRM. ⚡SummarizerChip: "Summarize"3-5 bullet executive summary of the entire page. Nova reads everything including content below the fold and delivers only what matters. 🌐TranslatorChip: "Translate"Full page translation. Defaults to English if content is in another language, or to Spanish if already in English. Preserves structure and formatting. 🔬Deep ResearchChip: "Research" · Ctrl+Shift+RComprehensive topic briefing based on what you're viewing. Suggests 3-5 related searches, delivers strategic context, and saves findings to Nova Memory. ✍Reply DrafterChip: "Draft"Reads the page content and drafts a professional, context-aware response. Works on emails, proposals, forms, and product pages. 🧠Nova MemoryChip: "Remember"Captures the most strategically valuable intelligence from the current page and saves it to your persistent Nova Memory. Recall it in any future session.

⚡ Operator Mode

Operator Mode is a hidden configuration layer in Nova Browser. When active, Nova operates with maximum intelligence depth — longer context windows, more aggressive analysis, and all hidden keyboard shortcuts enabled.

How to Activate

Triple-click the Nova Browser hex logo in the title bar (top-left) within 700 milliseconds. You'll see a purple toast notification: "⚡ OPERATOR MODE ACTIVE". The status bar at the bottom of the screen will show the OPERATOR indicator in violet.

⚡Operator Mode persists for the session. Close and reopen the browser to deactivate. Triple-click again to toggle.

What Changes in Operator Mode

• OSINT depth increased — Nova doesn't stop at surface-level findings. It extracts ownership signals, tech stack fingerprints, and personnel cross-references.

• Competitor analysis unlocks adversarial positioning — Nova identifies specific weaknesses you can exploit in your own messaging.

• Lead extraction goes deeper — Nova infers decision-maker hierarchy even when not explicitly listed on the page.

• All Ctrl+Shift shortcuts activate — the hidden intelligence shortcuts only respond in Operator Mode.

• Nova's chat tone shifts — more direct, more tactical, less hedging.

🏢 OSINT Methodology

The OSINT tool (Ctrl+Shift+O) is the most powerful intelligence operation in Nova Browser. Here's how to get maximum value from it.

Best Pages to Run OSINT On

• Company About pages — highest density of personnel, mission, and funding signals

• LinkedIn company pages — employee count, growth rate, hiring patterns reveal financial health

• Crunchbase / AngelList profiles — funding history, investor names, valuation signals

• Pricing pages — reveals target customer, competitive positioning, and revenue model

• Job posting pages — what they're hiring reveals what they're building (or struggling with)

• Press release pages — partnership signals, customer names, revenue milestones

Interpreting OSINT Output

Nova's OSINT report includes:

• Ownership structure — founders, investors, key stakeholders and their estimated equity/influence

• Revenue signals — customer count × estimated ACV, funding stage, burn rate indicators

• Tech stack fingerprint — what tools they're built on (signals sophistication and spend)

• Competitive weaknesses — what they can't do or haven't solved yet

• Outreach intelligence — who to contact, what angle to use, what they care about

ℹ️After an OSINT scan, immediately ask Nova: "What's the best way to approach this company given what you just found?" It will use all the OSINT data in context to give you a tactical action plan.

🎯 Lead Extraction

Lead extraction (Ctrl+Shift+L) goes beyond contact scraping. Nova identifies decision-making hierarchy and recommends outreach strategy for each person based on their likely priorities.

What Gets Extracted

• Direct contacts — names, titles, emails, phone numbers visible on the page

• Inferred decision makers — who holds buying authority based on org structure signals

• LinkedIn profiles — when linked or referenced on the page

• Contact forms and submission paths — with recommended subject lines and angles

• Outreach strategy per person — what they care about, what angle to lead with, what to avoid

Power Move: Multi-Page Lead Build

Run lead extraction on the company About page, Team page, and LinkedIn company page in sequence, then ask Nova: "Compile everything you've extracted into a single prioritized contact list with outreach strategy." Nova will synthesize all three sessions into one tactical brief.

📋 Competitor Intelligence

Competitor Intel (Ctrl+Shift+I) is designed to give you an unfair advantage before a sales call, pitch, or product decision. It doesn't just describe the competitor — it identifies what you can use against them.

What the Report Covers

• Product strengths — what they actually do well (know this so you don't waste time disputing it)

• Product weaknesses — what customers complain about, what's missing, what's broken

• Pricing strategy — how they position and who they're pricing out

• Marketing angles — what messaging they lean on and why it works or doesn't

• What they cannot replicate — structural advantages you have that they can't easily copy

• Displacement script — specific language to use when a prospect mentions this competitor

🧠 Nova Memory System

Nova Memory is a persistent intelligence layer that compounds across sessions. Unlike browser history, Memory stores strategic intelligence — not URLs.

Saving to Memory

Click the "🧠 Remember" chip or say "Remember this" / "Save this to memory" in the chat. Nova will extract the most strategically valuable information from the current page and save it with context.

Recalling from Memory

In any future session, ask: "What do you remember about [company/topic]?" Nova will surface relevant memory. You can also ask: "What intelligence have we gathered on [industry/competitor]?" to get a compiled brief across multiple saved sessions.

ℹ️Memory is most powerful for competitive intelligence. Run OSINT on your top 10 competitors, save each to Memory, then ask Nova: "Who is our most dangerous competitor right now and why?" for a synthesized strategic assessment.

⚙️ Novex Integration

Nova Browser and Novex (Hypernova's AI no-code app builder) are directly integrated. Press Ctrl+Shift+X on any page and it opens in Novex — ready to clone or build on.

Use Cases

• Competitor app cloning — see a tool you want to replicate? Open it in Novex and describe what you want different.

• Prototype from inspiration — find a design you love? Send it to Novex as a reference and describe your version.

• Marketplace replication — browse a marketplace, send to Novex, build a focused vertical version.

This shortcut also appears in the Tools panel. The destination is novex.hypernovaaiinc.store.

🔥 Power Workflows

These are specific sequences that operators use to compress hours of research into minutes.

Pre-Sales Intelligence Brief (15 minutes)

1Visit their websiteRun Ctrl+Shift+O (OSINT). Read the full report. Note the weaknesses. 2Visit their LinkedInRun Ctrl+Shift+L (Leads). Identify the decision maker. Get outreach strategy. 3Visit their pricing pageRun Ctrl+Shift+I (Competitor Intel). Get displacement script. 4Ask Nova"Synthesize everything we've found into a 5-bullet pre-call brief and recommend my opening line."

Market Research Sprint (30 minutes)

1Activate Operator ModeTriple-click the logo. You'll get deeper analysis on everything. 2Visit 5 competitor sitesRun Ctrl+Shift+O on each. Save each to Memory with Ctrl+Shift+R → "Remember this." 3SynthesizeAsk Nova: "Based on everything we've gathered, what's the biggest unserved gap in this market and how should I position to own it?"

Build Recon → Novex Sprint

1Find your inspirationBrowse to a product, marketplace, or tool you want to build a version of. 2Nova Vision itCtrl+Shift+V to get Nova's full visual analysis. Note the exact features and layout. 3Open in NovexCtrl+Shift+X. Nova Browser sends the URL to Novex automatically. 4Describe your versionIn Novex, describe what you want different. Hermes builds it in minutes.