Novara launches Form Agent to digitise EHS paper forms via AI
Novara, the Colorado-based environment, health, safety and operational risk management software vendor, has launched Form Agent inside its Flex platform, an AI capability that ingests paper forms, PDFs and scanned documents and generates fully functional digital EHS workflows without manual field-by-field reconstruction.
The company says multi-site EHS teams routinely lose hours recreating safety inspection sheets, corrective action workflows and compliance checklists when moving from paper to digital systems. Form Agent is positioned as a fix for that bottleneck: a user uploads a document, the tool extracts fields, sections, checkboxes, date fields and signature lines, and produces a Flex-compatible draft form. Teams can then refine the output through plain-language conversation with the AI, while confidence indicators and side-by-side comparisons are designed to keep human reviewers in control of the final result.
Jade Brainard, Chief Product Officer at Novara, said a form that might previously require one to two hours of manual digitisation "can now be done in a minute or two with Form Agent."
Inside the product
Novara has framed Form Agent as EHS-specific rather than a general document converter, saying it carries built-in recognition of safety inspection structures, incident reporting formats and compliance checklist layouts. The distinction matters in regulated environments where generic optical-character-recognition tools may misclassify field types or strip context that affects legal defensibility.
The launch sits within a broader expansion of Novara's Flex AI suite. The company recently integrated Safety Trekr AI into Flex through a partnership with the American Society of Safety Professionals (ASSP), giving field teams contextual answers to compliance queries drawn from ASSP's Safety Professionals Handbook and ANSI standards. Novara says Form Agent and Safety Trekr AI can work together, with the latter helping generate compliant content for forms produced by the former.
Novara also recently acquired Ensogo, described as an AI-native sustainability and ESG management platform with operations in Canada. The company says the deal adds agentic AI engineering expertise and expands its footprint in mining, energy, oil and gas and construction sectors.
Market context
The EHS software market is a mid-sized but growing vertical within enterprise software, with incumbents including Intelex, Cority, Benchmark Gensuite and Velociti competing on workflow breadth, mobile-first field tooling and regulatory content libraries. AI-assisted form digitisation is an emerging differentiator as vendors race to reduce implementation friction; shorter time-to-value is a selling point for buyers managing complex, multi-site rollouts under tight safety compliance deadlines.
The integration of agentic AI into operational risk management tools carries implicit obligations under emerging standards. In the EU, the AI Act's requirements around human oversight and auditability of high-risk automated systems will apply to tools used in workplace safety contexts; Novara's confidence-indicator and side-by-side review features appear designed, at least in part, to address that class of concern. In the UK, the Health and Safety Executive has not yet issued sector-specific AI guidance, but buyers in regulated industries are increasingly asking vendors for explainability documentation and audit trails.
Novara will demonstrate Form Agent at the ASSP Safety 2026 conference, where the company is exhibiting at booth 6501. No pricing or contract terms for the new capability were disclosed in the release.