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General FAQs
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Hunome is a collective sensemaking platform focused on helping humanity, your group, your societal organization or business understand how the world works or should work, together, finding what makes sense, in themes of your choice.
It is a product uniquely designed for building multidimensional understanding, avoid gaps in your understanding.
You can sign-up to the Free Forever product now to start your build.
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Today our lives are influenced with misinformation and skewed ideas of how the world works.
In business we make decisions with eyes wide shut, due to insularity and siloes. Many voices and expertise areas are not duly heard and this hurts many areas of a business.
Societal organizations struggle to align the stakeholders and make their agenda understood.
We help build awareness, align people, get to faster action, increase efficiences in the change related processes. With Hunome you come up with the sensemaking that is robust and rich for your decision making needs.
Hunome, in our confusing world, enables signalling what makes sense and why and signal where the truth for your decision making context may be and the impact of your actions.
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Hunome is for individuals with groups and networks (or even solo), societal organizations and businesses.
See more on the use cases for the product.
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Our purpose is to help make sense of the changing, interconnecting and often complex world.
Simplistic decisions are not enough and one person's knowledge cannot cover all that is necessary to cover.
We help humanity make sense of itself, across the many large and small thematics of change.
What next is not a given and it is not to be dictated as in the end only sustainable thinking stands the test of time and delivers.
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You decide on the theme that you see needing a better understanding and internalization in the world, yours and overall.
The themes that are kicked off on the Hunome product depend on the passions and drive of the humans who lead a build, start a SparkMap and invite their group to the build, or run it solo for one’s own understanding.
See some examples on the use case page.
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Hunome traces its origins back to the 1990s. Our founder established a pioneering role at Nokia focused on building methods and approaches for understanding the human life and its challenges and how the mobile industry could help, rather than asking people directly, which led to short term answers, not useful for longer term decision making and innovation.
Since departing from Nokia, she has continued to pursue her vision of making accessible a deeper understanding of our connected world, its systemic nature, in her capacity as a futurist in many contexts, corporate and consulting and a previous startup in the innovation space.
Hunome emerged as the realization of this vision, integrating insights from product development, human-awareness studies, foresight, and systems thinking. The alternative, as she discovered, would entail wasting significant time and resources in the pursuit of genuine human understanding.
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Hunome is our product name, and Hunomics is the company's name, registered in Helsinki, Finland.
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Yes, we cultivate an environment where our members feel they are among others interested in creating meaningful outcomes.
We expect our members to engage on the platform with transparency, genuine human empathy, and understanding and respect for each other's backgrounds.
To ensure a positive experience for everyone, we ask our members to familiarize themselves with our terms of service, privacy policy, and community code of conduct. These documents outline what we expect from our members and how we strive to maintain a respectful and supportive community.
See the use case page for more sensitive use cases.
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At Hunome, we are committed to building a quality environment. The very few questions we ask help us understand your interest in Hunome.
Those with genuine interest will make this environment great for others also.
We have seen what happens when other than genuine interest mess about in our human interactions.
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Once you've signed up and verified your email, the Hunome team will review your request to join.
When it's approved, we will send a Welcome to Hunome email to your registered email address.
Typically, you can expect to receive this email within two days.
As you receive the invitation email, your profile will have been activated on Hunome, allowing you to log in directly on the login page or by clicking the button in the email.
We've implemented a two-step registration process to ensure the positivity and thoughtfulness of engagement on Hunome. Important: Do check all of your email folders for Hunome messages, including Spam, Promotions, and others, and consider adding us to your email whitelist.
Invitation code
If you have received the invitation code to join a particular group’s SparkMap build, use that in the registration process and you will go directly to your profile creation without needing to wait.You will go directly to building your profile, without waiting, if a paid account invites you or an individual who is already on Hunome invites you via the Hunome features.
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The optimal device for using Hunome is a desktop or laptop computer. and Chrome and Firefox browsers have been tested to work well. The reason for our desktop focus is because the connected thinking is best viewed on larger screens, allowing for a more comprehensive and immersive experience.
FAQs for Individuals
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You can engage deeply with topics that you care about, such as environmental sustainability, social justice, and personal development, among many others.
Hunome enables individuals like you to explore many multidimensioanl themes, contribute your perspectives, and connect with the thoughts of others‘ who also seek to understand the theme that you do, fostering a rich environment for collective sensemaking where the many humans ways of knowing and disciplines come together.
Start by registering first and once your account is active, start learning how other thematics have developed from the initial Spark. Get a sense of how a SparkMap works and start designing how and where you want to take your build to. -
On Hunome, you are able to intertwine your thoughts with those of others. Join any SparkMap, add your perspectives to Sparks, igniting new thoughts.
Solo Builds offer a unique thought-building experience. They allow you to deepen your personal understanding by independently exploring multidimensional themes that resonate most with you.
This self-driven journey enables you to connect the dots between your thoughts, ideas, research you find and more as inspiration strikes.
Recognizing that some members prefer solo exploration, Hunome offers features that allow members to delve into themes independently.
You can reflect, analyze, and contribute with your perspectives at your own pace, ensuring personal growth and understanding without the immediate need for group interaction. However, you may find that others come and assist your build.
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For those interested in intimate, targeted deliberations, Hunome supports the creation of atomic groups, where diverse individuals come together around shared interests, forming dynamic Atomic Groups.
These small clusters enable members to delve into specific themes together, fostering deeper connections and more nuanced understanding among its participants.
Atomic groups on Hunome form around themes that you and your group seek to make sense of.
Hunome makes this easy by enabling you to invite your participants to the spot on the SparkMap where you believe they might have something to say or inviting them to the beginning where you can set the scene for the build.
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Humanathon is a name for a marathon or hackathon build which could be done over months to ensure a rich output or over a weekend with many participants immediately to build fast. Your build will inspire and empower individuals and groups to achieve shared understanding and effect positive change.
Humanathons provide participants with the opportunity to delve into themes that have been discussed at events and reported on, yet continue to challenge our comprehension.
A Humanathon is a structured program of potentially various sessions, run online using Hunome as the way to build, where multidisciplinary individuals can lead collective explorations into multifaceted themes requiring comprehensive understanding.
As a leader of this build, you can initiate and guide these explorations, bringing together diverse perspectives to co-create solutions and insights. Engage with diverse experts and people in a collective, ongoing effort to develop a comprehensive perspective on change.
"Humanathon" encapsulates the sustained human-aware collective effort required to address all sorts of complex challenges.
By harnessing the collective intelligence and experiences of the community, we can develop a holistic understanding of these critical themes and find what makes sense. This is a very human endeavour. -
Hunome offers the Free Forever product and then an upgrade product for Humanathon leaders.
The Free Forever product itself will guide you to kick-off a build. If you have led any kind of group activity prior you will find this easy.
If however you would like more help. Do contact the Hunome team. We are happy to help.
The upgrade to Starter product provides further materials, help to set up and facilitate these programs effectively, ensuring a smooth and impactful experience for all participants and support to communicate about the sessions and the results in the best way possible.
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Anyone who signs-up as a member of Hunome can use the Free Forever version of the product; that is always available for everyone.
This product does not have the improved features of the paid products and there are certain limitations as to what you may get from the platform in terms of outputs.
Our suggestions is that you get started with the Free Forever open and transparent SparkMaps for best results in building awareness and understanding across the globe. For general sensemaking and other use cases the Free Forever product works well.
Then if you need to upgrade you can find the next best option to upgrade to. Those provide more tools, data outputs and more.
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Anyone who starts in the Free Forever version may upgrade to the paid products at anytime. If you're seeking advanced functionalities, Hunome introduces premium features that help in the theme development. These premium options include the ability to obtain better outputs in multidimensional understanding through collective exploration.
Rest assured, the core features that define the Hunome experience will always be accessible to all users. Our goal is to balance free and premium offerings to enhance user experience without compromising the platform's accessibility.
FAQs for Businesses
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Hunome is a collective sensemaking platform that uniquely helps organizations and businesses align for and understand what next, increase awareness of change, make sense of divergent views, understand the thematic area of interest in a rich manner, not stumbling on silos and insularity of thinking.
Where collective sensemaking is a great way to deal with the hurdles early and ensures that the stakeholders and experts (inside and outside) are heard well, giving room to come to new thinking rather than expect that humans have ready answers to the changes happening.
What next is not a given. Any risks and opportunities require contextual deliberation to arrive a robust decision making.
Hunome enables creating a dynamic, agile, aware and aligned view to the changes happening. Change in use by all those needed to make it happen.
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Hunome is ideal for…
Organizations and businesses that seek to find new growth opportunities, deal with change in a rich and systemic manner with ease, understand the import of risks arising in their environment globally and stay innovative on an ongoing basis.
Rather than deal with these matters in a start-stop manner or leaving it in the hands of the few. Previously, even engaging your own ecosystem in the deliberation was a difficult thing, now no more.
One key problem many businesses struggle with is what we call the 6% dilemma. Much research points to the lack of engagement in change processes, leaving much thinking not included in the deliberations.
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Hunome enables a collective Aha, what makes sense and why and novel thinking to emerge and be analyzed.
Hunome's collective sensemaking delivers:
1. Collective built:
Bring the collective together with ease, beyond the usual contributors.
2. Set the scene for the build:
Set the scene for what understanding is being sought for to keep everyone both creative and on the theme.
3. Reach multidisciplinary and even global contributors:
Build globally with ease—everyone in their own time or in online sessions—a rich understanding emerges with assisted serendipity where thoughts are allowed to mingle and collide with each other, leading to new thinking and innovations.
4. Navigate the storytelling, Trains of Thought and the system of thought:
Navigate what has been built in a number of ways.
5. Sensemaking analytics:
Gain sensemaking analytics that are contextual and novel.
6. Collective Sensemaker AI:
Assistance from sensemaker AI, diving into what has been built and unearth patterns.
7. Dynamic build for ongoing feed:
Keep the build alive with ease.
8. Gap analysis based on goal:
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Hunome uniquely combines human collective understanding and delivers insights with AI and our smart data by design. Hunome uniquely provides a holistic view of multiple inputs and makes sense of what makes sense.
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Yes, Hunome is designed to be scalable and beneficial for businesses of all sizes. Small businesses can leverage it for change related decision making, gaining contextual insights one could not see without this, with low cost compared to current demands, skills requirements and time expenditure.
Get everyone engaged in deliberating on ‘what next’ and ‘why’. Uncover new growth opportunities, gain insights from your clients and ecosystem.
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Absolutely! Hunome offers human collective understanding features where team members can co-create, focus the build on the innovation area at hand, and align on the solutions that make sense.
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Yes, data security is a priority at Hunome. The platform employs robust encryption and adheres to industry best practices to protect your data and ensure privacy.
Contact us for more details.
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Currently, Hunome is a standalone platform. However, we are actively exploring integrations with popular business tools to enhance workflow compatibility.
Stay tuned for updates.
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Hunome offers a Free Forever product now allowing businesses to explore the platform’s core features at no cost. For advanced tools and premium features, we offer competitive subscription plans tailored to business needs.
Contact us at [hello@hunome.com] for more info.
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Yes, we provide:
Onboarding guides and tutorials to help you get started.
Customer support for any queries or issues.
Resources to maximize the platform’s potential.
Hunome has been designed with ease of use in mind. With a few actions one gets going easily.
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Getting started is simple:
Sign up on www.hunome.com.
Explore the platform’s features with a free account.
Upgrade to a paid plan to unlock full capabilities.
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Yes! We’d be happy to show you how Hunome can work for your business. Contact us at [https://calendly.com/dominique-jaurola/45min] to schedule a personalized demo.
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Hunome’s AI, at first only in paid, assists members and clients by helping navigate the SparkMap, gain a synthesis of the build, see clusters within the SparkMap. With that enhancing the understanding of complex ideas and systems of thought.
Sensemaker AI with Hunome helps collective human ingenuity, not replace it. What next and making sense of multidisciplinary and the many ways of knowing is very much a human domain.
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Yes, subscriptions can be canceled at any time. You will retain access to paid features until the end of your billing period and you can download your own data.
FAQs for
Societal Organizations
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Collective sensemaking and broader deliberation about the change you seek helps to progress it further.
Align your stakeholders
Hear the societal voice
Tackle the imbalances in views
Save in time and cost
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You can invite a large number of participants to a build.
Each individual invited adds to the whole in their own time with or in online sessions if you so design it.
On the Free Forever product we’ve made it easy for you to invite in smaller increments to a particular spot in the SparkMap, the mapping of collective perspectives. This way you can invite a specific person with a particular background to add to the build in the spot where you thought they could help.
If you would like to run a bigger build you can contact us for our solutions to make this easy for you.
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Hunome can be used at any time in your projects, programs and processes.
For example you may have already worked on understanding change and formulated good outputs on that (scenarions, reports, other).
However, not everyone sees it and people have new things to add. So you can break the report to some component parts that others can engage with and add to.
Or, you may not have done this yet or what you did a while back needs updating. You can kick-off a dynamic activity to bring humanity’s understanding on your theme together and create an understanding that can be easily shared to gain the contributions missing still and communicating with those you need to take the thinking into action.
Hunome is designed to be the partner in building shared understanding, communicating systemically on the theme of change occurring or that should occur.
The build can start at any time and dynamically stay as your partner in change. No need to restart the work as things evolve. Not start-stop work. A dynamic build is ready when you need to take stock and make decisions and then nudge the build forward for the next milestone in your process. This increases your agility, alignment and awareness with ease.
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Collective sensemaking delivers differentiating results very fast.
Naturally to get to very innovative thinking and a rich representation of the theme you do need to stick with your build. Each person needs a little bit of ‘marinating’ in the subject matter to start to see the theme and report on experiences, expertise and many other dimensions. Your contributors will be inspired by each other’s thinking. Reaching new heights.
However, the time per person to get to that is very short compared to other online and offline methods and approaches.
By way of example, some themes on Hunome were built over a few 2 hours sessions with at the end 100+ contributors to a representation of the multidisciplinary perspectives that it would take a long time to get to with other methods. You can analyze the gaps in your build with ease and also fix the gap with your contributor profiles.
AI solutions do not have the connected perspectives, contextualized for knowing source, quality and variety, defining together what next and even what was.
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