# What does Alknoma do?

By Howard Chen (https://www.linkedin.com/in/howard-h-chen/), 12 October 2026. https://www.alknoma.com/blogs/what-does-alknoma-do

**Alknoma, in the proactive agent space, builds and secures proactive AI agents: agents that start their own work inside a team's tools, online, anywhere. Ayven, the built agent, turns a team's chat into structured records and automates the follow-ups. Minutehand, free, validates an agent over simulated days of work, flagging hallucinated facts and mistimed actions before release.**

## The proactive agent stack

A proactive agent does not wait to be asked. It notices that a question went unanswered or a promise came due, and it acts. That is only useful if what it says is true and it acts at the right time, so everything Alknoma makes is about building such agents and making sure they are right before they reach a team.

## Ayven

The built agent, for business owners. Ayven reads a team's conversations, keeps structured records of who asked what, who owes an answer and what was decided, and automates the follow-ups those records call for until the work is confirmed done. [ayven.ai](https://www.ayven.ai).

## Services

For teams that want an agent of their own. You name the piece of work; Alknoma builds the agent that carries it, inside the tools your team already uses, and secures it by running it through simulated days of work before it goes live. [How we work](/services).

## Minutehand

For engineers building their own. Minutehand runs a proactive agent through simulated days of work in seconds, against fake versions of the services it uses, with simulated people who answer late or not at all, and reports every message it got wrong. Free to use and source-available under FSL-1.1-ALv2; each release becomes Apache 2.0 two years after it ships. [minutehand.ai](https://minutehand.ai).

## The company

Alknoma Ltd is registered in England and Wales, company number 16076031, and works online with teams anywhere. It was founded by Howard Chen. [About Alknoma](/company).

## Frequently asked questions

### Is Alknoma a product company or a consultancy?

Both, around one thing. Ayven is a product, Minutehand is a free tool, and the services build and secure a proactive agent for a team that wants one of its own.

### Where is Alknoma based?

Alknoma works online with teams anywhere. Alknoma Ltd is registered in England and Wales, company number 16076031.

### How do I contact Alknoma?

Email contact@alknoma.com, or book a Google Meet at https://calendar.app.google/ZqjSZAbchWBTL6dw8.