Sova AI · Advisory Intelligence for general aviation
Awareness in. Advice out.Pilot in command.
Sova AI is Advisory Intelligence for general aviation, built on APA, Osoosi's Artificial Pilot Awareness model. It answers, trains and cross-checks; the pilot stays in command.
Portfolio CompanySan Diego, CA
Why we built it
Most GA accidents are not mechanical.
They start with a missed call, an airspeed trend nobody caught, a checklist item skipped under workload. In almost every case the airplane was still giving clues and the pilot was saturated. A crewed cockpit solves that with a second set of eyes and ears. Single-pilot GA never had it. Sova gives every cockpit a first officer's attention without a first officer's seat.
Source: AOPA Air Safety Institute, Richard G. McSpadden Report (formerly the Nall Report).
Sova Chat · Sova Ground · Sova Suite
Three products. One model.
Sova Chat – AI Assistant
Answers that fit your airplane, through your headset. No hardware.
For student, renter and low-time pilots
- Answers aviation questions by voice
- Decodes the weather you dictate
- Walks a checklist at your pace
$29/month billed through the App Store · 30-day free trial
Get notifiedSova Ground – AI CFI Assistant
Ground study and simulator practice, turned into measured progress. The CFI stays in control.
For Part 61 and 141 flight schools
- Adaptive tutoring and ACS remediation
- Real-time simulator coaching at a CFI-set level
- Instructor and school dashboards
Priced per active-student seat · quoted on request
Request a quoteSova Suite – AI Cockpit Copilot
An extra cross-check for the airplane you already own.
For owner-operators and training fleets
- Cross-checks your actions, instruments and calculations
- Catches deviations and keeps you on the clearance
- Watches fuel and route; runs the right checklist
Pricing shared with the waitlist
Join the waitlistSova Ground + Sova Suite
Bring the lesson back to the simulator.
For schools running Sova Ground that add Sova Suite, now in early access, to their training aircraft, the airplane feeds the simulator: a dual lesson becomes a structured performance record, and a difficult moment from the air can be rebuilt in Sova Ground for practice, coaching and the instructor's review, at simulator cost.
How the connected pilot works →Built on APA
One model. Three ways to fly with it.
Every Sova product runs on APA, Osoosi's Artificial Pilot Awareness model. What changes from one to the next is how much of the world APA can perceive. Sova Chat works from your voice: it answers what you ask. Sova Ground perceives the simulator: it watches a student fly and coaches at the level the instructor sets. Sova Suite perceives the cockpit: it sees the panel, hears the radio, and cross-checks you the way a second crew member would. Start where you are. Grow into the rest.
Answers
Sova Chat
Perceives
Your voice
Runs on
Your phone or tablet
Trains
Sova Ground
Perceives
The simulator
Runs on
The school's web app and sims
Perceives
Sova Suite
Perceives
The cockpit
Runs on
Your iPad plus the Sova sensor
The AI in Sova stands for Advisory Intelligence. It informs. You decide.
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Advisory-only.
Sova never controls the aircraft and never replaces pilot judgment. It surfaces what it perceives; the pilot decides what to do.
02
Not required equipment.
Sova runs on the device you already carry. Nothing is installed in the aircraft and no avionics are modified.
03
Pilot in command.
Every advisory is something a pilot can verify and choose to act on. The pilot in command remains solely responsible for the safe operation of the aircraft.
04
Simulator coaching stays in the simulator.
Sova Ground's real-time guidance operates only in training devices, never in an aircraft, and the instructor approves every recommendation before it reaches a student's record.
Technology
Built on APA.
APA, Artificial Pilot Awareness, is Osoosi's on-device aviation model. It fuses what it can perceive, from cockpit instruments through the Sova sensor to receive-only radio audio, connected sensor data and the pilot's own voice, into a continuously updated picture of aircraft and mission state, then hands the pilot a short list of what matters, explained. On the ground, the same model watches simulator state and student performance. It runs on the pilot's device and needs no network in flight.
How APA works →Team
Built by people who know the cockpit.
Osoosi brings together aerospace, avionics, software, flight operations and commercialization to build Artificial Pilot Awareness and put it in a pilot's hands.
Leadership
De'Schzunell "DJ" Catlin
Co-Founder & CEO
Former NASA Flight Research Engineer with deep avionics and aerospace systems leadership experience
Xavier D. Johnson
Co-Founder & CTO
Former Oracle researcher and systems technologist with deep software, edge systems, and AI engineering experience
Byron Donovan
Co-Founder & Chief Legal & Compliance Officer
Legal and regulatory leader supporting commercialization in safety-critical environments
Kyle Hosler
Chief Pilot
Flight operations leader and pilot representative supporting real-world cockpit validation and pilot workflows
Harsha Malshe
Head of Business
Leads business development for Osoosi and its path to market.
Advisors & Mentors
Backed by
Osoosi is an EvoNexus portfolio company, San Diego.
Start where you fly.
Get notified the day Sova Chat reaches the App Store, put your school on the Sova Ground list, or join the Sova Suite waitlist. Questions, partnerships or press: talk to the team.
Sova Chat · Get notified at launch