Noctic™
Software that disappears
into the work.
We build the intelligence layer, the identity layer, and the apps on top of both. Shiba AI thinks. Cadence organizes. Noctic connects them.
What we believe
The best software is the one you stop noticing.
Most tools fight for attention. We build tools that get out of the way — so students, creators and teams can focus on what they're actually trying to do. One account, one design language, one privacy model, across every surface.
Intelligence first
AI isn't a feature we bolted on. It is the substrate every Noctic product is built on top of.
Identity once
You shouldn't have to create a new account for every app you touch. Your Noctic Account travels with you.
Privacy by architecture
Keys live server-side. Sensitive data is column-locked. Consent is scoped and revocable.
Shipped to real users
Cadence is running in a real school while it's in beta. That's the only feedback loop we trust.
Products
Three products. One platform.
Shiba
Think with it.
Chat, code, images, research and voice — with effort levels from Economic to Ultra and reasoning you can watch.
Cadence
Live your campus.
Feed, calendar, notes, channels and DMs built for students — currently in beta, public September 1, 2026.
In development
Compass
An AI study copilot that reads your Cadence timetable and notes, then plans, tutors and looks ahead.
Preview CompassNoctic Account
One sign-in. Everywhere.
Your identity, plan and privacy settings travel with you across every Noctic surface and any connected app.
How it worksDesign
Liquid Glass.
A single visual system that feels like depth, light and air — whether you're on a phone, a laptop or a watch.
Floating pills. 30px blur. Hairline borders. No noise, no gradients for their own sake. Every surface is built to recede so the work can come forward.
Built to work better together.
Ask Shiba to summarize your Cadence notes. Push a timetable into your calendar. Carry one plan across both.
Products
Everything we make.
Three products, one account, one platform. Built to be used together.
Shiba
Intelligence that does the work.
Parable 4.5 reasoning, Agent Mode, effort tiers, code artifacts, images, voice and memory.
Cadence
School life, in one place.
Feed, reels, calendar, notes, channels, DMs and verified school registration.
Compass
Your whole year, planned.
An AI study copilot that reads Cadence data and tutors the gaps.
Noctic Account
One sign-in. Everywhere.
Identity, plan, privacy and OAuth — the seam between every product.
Noctic Platform
The layer underneath.
Shared auth, billing, rate limits, storage, AI gateway and security policies. Every product inherits it for free.
Noctic Intelligence
Shiba
The assistant that thinks, builds and speaks.
Parable 4.5 reasoning, an agent mode that does multi-step work, and six effort tiers so you decide how hard it thinks.
Everything in one conversation.
Agent mode
Give it a goal, not a question. Shiba plans, executes and reports back.
Effort tiers
Economic, Low, Medium, High, Plus and Ultra — pay only for the thinking you need.
Code
Full projects, multi-file artifacts, live previews and one-click deploys.
Images & video
Generation, editing, 360° panoramas and style transfer.
Voice & call mode
Ultra-realistic speech with instant, to-the-point answers.
Memory
Remembers what matters to you, and forgets what you ask it to.
Visible reasoning.
Watch it think before it answers.
For effort tiers above Medium, Shiba shows its chain of thought — so you can see why it picked an answer, not just what it picked.
Noctic Campus
Cadence
Your campus. Your schedule. Your people.
A social network, calendar, notebook and messenger built for school — currently in beta, public September 1, 2026.
Built around a school day.
Feed & reels
Posts, reposts and short video that stay inside your school and grade.
Calendar
Import a timetable from a PDF or photo. Holidays and PED days included.
Notes
AI summaries, cue cards, slideshows and auto-tags — Cadence AI, powered by Shiba AI.
Channels
School and grade channels, with verified announcements.
Messages
Encrypted DMs with local nicknames.
Verification
Free blue check via student ID scanning, verified by AI.
The base of Cadence.
One document. Zero build step. Instant everywhere.
Cadence ships as a single self-contained web application with a hash router, a glass design system and a Noctic backend behind it.
| Shell | Single HTML document, hash-based routing, no bundler — loads on any device instantly. |
|---|---|
| Design | Liquid Glass: floating pill navigation, 30px blur, hairline borders, edge-to-edge safe areas. |
| Data | Noctic cloud backend with row-level security; media through signed uploads so posts sync across devices. |
| AI | All model calls proxy through a server function. No keys ever reach the browser. |
| Identity | Native Cadence accounts, or Continue with Noctic for one-tap ecosystem sign-in. |
| Delivery | Installable PWA, Android APK and iOS home-screen app. |
Noctic Design
Liquid Glass.
Depth without weight. Color without noise.
Our design system is built to feel like the interface is floating in space — glassy, responsive, alive. It works in light mode, dark mode, and everything in between.
Blur as structure
30px backdrop blur separates layers without adding visual weight. The background stays present but never competes.
Pill navigation
Floating controls with 980px radius feel tactile and unobtrusive. The UI recedes until you need it.
Hairline borders
One-pixel separators at low opacity define edges without boxing things in. Every surface breathes.
Edge-to-edge safe areas
Mobile screens extend to the physical edges while respecting notches, islands and home indicators.
One system, every product
Shiba, Cadence, Compass and the Noctic Account all share the same tokens, components and motion curves. Moving between them feels continuous.
Noctic Platform
The layer underneath.
Auth, billing, AI gateway, storage and security — shared across every Noctic product.
Building on the platform means you inherit years of work on rate limiting, row-level security, scoped consent and model routing the moment your app goes live.
Identity
OAuth 2.0, scoped consent, revocable tokens and verified profile propagation.
Billing
One subscription travels with the account. Failed payments revoke access instantly.
AI Gateway
Rate-limited, model-routed, keyless access to the intelligence layer from any app.
Storage
Signed uploads, bucket-level RLS and cross-device media sync.
Security
Column-level grants, security definer functions and continuous dependency scanning.
Edge functions
Serverless functions with mandatory JWT validation and automatic abuse limits.
Ecosystem
The Noctic Ecosystem.
Separately great. Together, unmistakable.
Continuity
Start a note in Cadence, finish it with Shiba. Your context follows you.
One plan
Plus, MAX and Enterprise apply across every Noctic product you use.
One identity
Your Noctic Account carries your name, avatar, verification and permissions.
One privacy model
Consent screens show exactly which app is asking for what, every time.
How it fits together.
| Noctic Account | The identity layer. Issues authorization codes and tokens to every app. |
|---|---|
| Shiba | The intelligence layer. Powers Cadence AI and any app you connect. |
| Cadence | The social layer. Signs in with Noctic and consumes Shiba intelligence. |
| Your app | Register it, request scopes, and inherit the whole stack. |
Noctic Account
One sign-in for everything Noctic makes.
Create it once and use it in Shiba, in Cadence, and in any app that supports Continue with Noctic.
What it protects.
Scoped consent
Apps ask for identity, profile, email or API access — you approve each one.
Revocable
Remove an app's access at any time from your account settings.
Private by default
Birthdays, plan history and moderation records are never shared with apps.
Verified status
Verification earned in one product is recognized across the ecosystem.
Continue with Noctic.
Standard OAuth 2.0. Three steps.
| 1 · Register | Create an app to get a client_id, a secret and your redirect URIs. |
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| 2 · Authorize | Send the user to /oauth/authorize?client_id=…&redirect_uri=…&scope=identity%20profile%20email&state=… |
| 3 · Exchange | POST the returned code to the token endpoint, then read the profile from the userinfo endpoint. |
Scopes
| identity | The stable Noctic user ID. |
|---|---|
| profile | Username, display name, avatar, plan and verified status. |
| The email address on the account. | |
| api | Act on the user's behalf across Noctic APIs. |
We're here to help.
Shiba
Billing, plans, treats and model behavior. Visit the help center.
Cadence
School registration, verification and calendar imports.
Account
Sign-in issues, connected apps and privacy requests.
Legal
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Noctic Compass.
An AI that knows your school year — and works ahead of it.
Compass reads the timetable, assignments and notes already living in Cadence, then plans the term with you: what to study tonight, what's about to collide, what your grades need, and where it all leads after graduation.
Four things it does every day.
Plans the week
Turns deadlines, tests and shifts into a realistic study schedule that rebuilds itself when something moves.
Teaches the gap
Finds the specific concept you're losing marks on and tutors that — not the whole chapter.
Predicts the crunch
Flags the week three tests land together, early enough to actually do something about it.
Points forward
Maps course choices, grades and interests to programs, scholarships and apprenticeships worth applying to.
Why it can only exist here.
| The data | Cadence already holds the timetable, notes, PED days and assessments. Compass doesn't ask students to enter anything twice. |
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| The intelligence | Shiba supplies reasoning, vision for scanned handouts, and voice for hands-free review. |
| The identity | The Noctic Account carries verification, so a school can trust who is on the other side. |
| The distribution | Every Cadence student is one toggle away from Compass. No new app to install. |
Built with limits on purpose.
Coaching, not cheating
Compass explains, quizzes and drafts outlines. It refuses to hand in work for you.
Student-owned
Schools see participation, never private notes or messages.
Auditable
Every school-facing report is generated from data the student can see first.
Off by default
Compass reads nothing until the student turns it on, scope by scope.
One campus. One app.
Cadence and Compass, licensed for your whole school.
Announcements that actually get read, a calendar that matches the real timetable, verified student identity, and an AI study coach — under one district agreement.
What a school gets.
| Verified rosters | Student ID scanning ties accounts to real students, so channels stay closed to outsiders. |
|---|---|
| Official channels | Grade, homeroom and campus-wide channels with broadcast rights for staff. |
| Shared calendar | Holidays, PED days and conditional PED days pushed once, visible everywhere. |
| Timetable import | Students photograph a printed schedule; AI turns it into a live calendar. |
| Moderation | Reporting, review queues and staff moderators with full action history. |
| Bulletin board | Clubs, tryouts and lost-and-found on a board students actually check. |
Rolling out.
Register the school
Claim your campus in Cadence and verify with a staff ID.
Open the channels
Grades and homerooms generate automatically; staff get broadcast rights.
Load the year
Import the calendar once — holidays and PED days included.
Turn on Compass
Opt in per grade, with student consent for every data scope.
One plan. Every app.
Your Noctic plan travels with your account across the whole ecosystem.
Free
- Daily treats for chat, images and code
- Cadence in full
- Noctic Account and connected apps
Plus
- Far higher daily limits
- Higher effort tiers and longer reasoning
- Market data, deep research and voice
- Priority during peak hours
Enterprise
- Group dashboards and billing
- Topic controls and audit trails
- Education licensing available
Plans renew monthly and cancel instantly if a payment fails — access is revoked the moment billing lapses, never silently continued.
Company
We build the layer underneath the apps you use.
Noctic™ designs and operates its own software — the intelligence, the identity, and the products on top.
We started with one AI assistant and one school app. The interesting part turned out to be the seam between them: a single account, a single plan, one privacy model, and products that get better the moment you use another one.
What we believe.
Fewer apps, deeper ones
Every new surface has to earn its place by removing one somewhere else.
Keys never touch the browser
All model access runs server-side. It is slower to build and it is not negotiable.
Ship to real users
Cadence is used in a real school while it's in beta. That's the feedback loop.
Say what it costs
Clear plans, instant cancellation, no dark patterns at renewal.
Where we are.
"The goal isn't to make the most features. It's to make the right ones disappear."— Noctic design principle
Newsroom
What we shipped, in order.
Noctic Compass enters preview
An AI study and planning copilot built on the school data students already keep in Cadence.
Noctic™ becomes the parent brand
Shiba and Cadence unify under one company, one account and one ecosystem site.
Continue with Noctic
OAuth 2.0 sign-in opens to first-party apps, with scoped consent and revocable access.
Shiba 4.5 "Parable"
Six effort tiers from Economic to Ultra, visible reasoning, and Agent Mode for multi-step work.
Cadence beta
Feed, calendar, notes, channels, DMs, reels and verified school registration. Public release September 1, 2026.
Privacy at Noctic
Privacy is the architecture.
Not a setting we added later.
Server-side keys
No AI provider key is ever shipped to a browser. Every call is proxied and rate-limited.
Column-level protection
Birthdays, plan history and moderation records are unreadable by other users at the database level.
Scoped consent
Connected apps receive only the scopes you approve, and you can revoke them at any time.
Encrypted conversations
Encrypted mode processes locally, with screenshot and clipboard protection enabled.
Minors first
Age-aware behavior across the assistant, with stricter defaults for younger accounts.
Deletable
Delete your account and its content from account settings, in any product.
Careers
Small team. Large surface.
If you like owning a product end to end, this is that.
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Contract · RemoteEducation partnerships
Part-time · RemoteSecurity engineer
Full-time · RemoteiOS/Android engineer
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