Naia Shell
In the morning, Naia can tell you today’s schedule, remember your grocery list, and pick up a conversation about music you enjoy.
VISION
A world where AI and people live together in harmony
A future where personal AIs remember people and grow with them across everyday life, work, devices, and the physical world.
MISSION
Nextain builds the technology infrastructure for that world.
Naia for individuals
Your AI that speaks, listens, and remembers
We build personal services on foundations refined as we work alongside AI. Naia is a personal AI friend with a face, a voice, and a memory.
REC
Naia Studio
A web studio for creating a character’s personality, voice, video avatar, and songs from artwork and settings.
NVA
An open video avatar format and player for characters that speak and move.
Naia App Store
Share avatars, voices, songs, wallpapers, and apps with Naia users.
Content made with Naia: webtoon · short videos · Radio Naia · Harness Engineering
Naia AX for organizations
Your organization's Naia, working with AI colleagues in every role
From running preset workflows to working with AI colleagues
Naia AX brings AI colleagues into each role on top of your organization's materials and work standards, and coordinates your work processes with you.
Typical AX
Solutions, templates, and n8n-style automation
Naia AX
AI colleagues built on your organization's knowledge
Starting point
Typical AXAdopt ready-made solutions, work templates, and automation flows such as n8n.
Naia AXStart with a knowledge space that gathers your materials and work standards.
How work gets done
Typical AXPeople find a preset flow or template and run it themselves.
Naia AXAI colleagues in each role find materials, handle routine work, and join meetings.
Fit
Typical AXThe same frameworks are shared across many organizations.
Naia AXAI colleagues learn your products and materials and coordinate the workflow.
The flow of one task —
from one note to approval and record
AI changes take effect only after a person approves, and every step is recorded.
A day in the life of an agent —
recurring work, messenger, schedules, document approval
An AI colleague talks with people through the messenger, gets work approved through documents, supports schedules and tasks, and runs preset recurring work on its own. That work includes driving a real browser to write posts or research data on the web.
04:30Recurring work
Starts the preset check on its own
At the set time it starts the vulnerability scan and reports any high-risk finding to the owner at once.
10:16Messenger
Takes a request in the messenger and replies
It turns a request left in the messenger into a schedule document, sets the reminder time, and replies.
10:16Schedules
Puts it on the team calendar and reminds on time
The same schedule appears on the weekly calendar for the whole team, and the AI colleague sends the reminder at the set time.
15:30Document approval
Finishes with approval in the document
The AI colleague revises as the owner's memo asks and replies; once the owner approves, it stays on record.
Screens: one day at Northwind Labs, the Naia ADK example organization
Five steps, built together
01
Assess
We look at your work, data, and security needs, and pick the first task.
02
Set up
We prepare work standards and AI colleagues for that task, and train managers and operators.
03
Run together
We run it alongside you and report results.
04
Review
You review the results and decide how far to expand.
05
Run on your own
Your operators keep refining the rules and updating models.
What we keep to
- ✓Every result shows which source it came from.
- ✓Hard-to-undo actions such as sending or publishing run only after a person approves.
- ✓Work records show who approved what, and when.
History
- Selected for the Gyeonggi AI Innovation Cluster (Hanam), Oct 2026
- AX training for the National Tax Service: designing work with AI agents, Oct 2026
- Building and running AIPOL, an AI policy experiment platform, with the Korean Association for Policy Studies, since Aug 2026
- AI system supply, training, and operation for the AI Research Institute (AIRI), since Jul 2026
- Developing and running OnMam’s AI website builder, since Apr 2026
- Harness Book: our way of working, under a global publishing contract
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People and AI colleagues
The team working together
Naia
Marketing
Jina
Sales & Education
Minho
Development
Alpha
Business Strategy
Byeongseok Yang (Luke)
LinkedInFounder & CEO
- →B.S. Computer Science, Soongsil University
- →Naver (NHN) 7 years — AI/OCR R&D, Shopping PM, Mobile/Webtoon/Smart TV product launches
- →SPRi (SW Policy Research Institute) 3 years — 10+ research publications on SW policy & VR/AR
- →Founded Comicsv → pivoted to Belivvr (metaverse education), 8 years
- →25 registered patents (Naver 18 + Belivvr 5 + others) + 8 new Nextain patents filed
- →Author: 'The World of Virtual Reality is Coming' (2016)
- →Naver IT Power Blogger (2010–12), Blog of the Month (2026)
- →Founded Nextain (2026) — Naia OS / AieDu planning and development
Donghak Kim
LinkedInCTO
- →24 years of full-stack development (Go, Python, Node.js, React, Docker, MSA, GraphQL, gRPC)
- →AI platform CTO — LLM integration, large-scale AI workflow optimization
- →Author: 'Vibe Coding with v0 + Cursor', 'AI Coding' — published developer educator
- →AI developer community operator, online/offline instructor
- →100+ server operations, global team leadership (Vietnam)
- →Naia OS architecture co-designer — agent layer, gateway integration
Organizations and partners we work with
