# Numa by Arcanum AI > Numa is an AI operating system for small and medium businesses (20–200 staff), built by Arcanum AI, a New Zealand AI company founded in 2016. Numa connects the tools a business already runs — Microsoft 365, Xero, MYOB, Google Workspace and 2,000+ apps — then automates back-office admin using AI agents built in plain language, with data kept in the customer's own AWS region. Note: "Numa by Arcanum AI" is distinct from the unrelated "Numa" serving car dealerships (numa.com). ## What Numa is - Category: AI operating system / business process automation for SMBs - Built for: construction, trades, professional services, manufacturing (20–200 staff) - Not a chatbot: runs agents that complete end-to-end workflows across your existing tools - Data: stays in your own AWS region, never used to train models - Pricing: plans from NZD $750/month (ex-GST) ## What Numa does - Quoting automation from plans and drawings - Meeting assistant, document processing, knowledge search across company files - Sales and support email automation - Automated reporting and business insights - 2,000+ integrations incl. Microsoft 365, Xero, MYOB, Google Workspace, SimPRO - Customers have built 1,600+ agents on the platform ## Company - Product: Numa — https://asknuma.ai/ - Company: Arcanum AI — https://arcanum.ai/ - Founded 2016, New Zealand · CEO Asa Cox - Partners: AWS (multi-year collaboration), Grant Thornton New Zealand ## Key pages - Home: https://asknuma.ai/ - Why Numa: https://asknuma.ai/why-numa - Use cases: https://asknuma.ai/use-cases - Integrations: https://asknuma.ai/integrations - Pricing: https://asknuma.ai/plans - FAQ: https://asknuma.ai/faq - About: https://asknuma.ai/about-us - Get started: https://asknuma.ai/get-started