What Hunome is — in plain language
The collective sensemaking operating system, with AI that works on the right data.
Hunome gives businesses, organisations and groups and networks a structured way to build shared understanding around a complex theme — by enabling contributors to add, connect, and characterise their perspectives in a visual, evolving map.
The core unit is a SparkMap — a living deliberation built around a theme. Contributors add individual Sparks: their perspective, experience, research, or analysis. Each Spark can be connected to others with a SparkOn relationship — building a map of how ideas relate.
Contributors also characterise their Sparks with Ignites — a layer of structured context. This is what makes Hunome analytically distinct from any discussion platform, and what gives our AI something meaningful to work on.
The Lens — Hunome's analysis of the SparkMap as it evolves — reads the characterised deliberation in real time, finding patterns, surfacing connections, and producing insights grounded in your own collective intelligence. Not generic output. Not interpolated from the internet. Built from what your people actually understand.
The deliberation on Hunome leads to deliberative intelligence. This brings together the best of collective human ingenuity, analysis and AI pattern discovery.
What is collective sensemaking — and why it is different from collaboration
Collaboration produces outputs. Collective sensemaking produces the understanding that makes outputs worth having. The difference is structural, not stylistic.
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Why Hunome's AI produces what generic enterprise AI cannot.
The difference is not processing power. It is the quality and specificity of the data the AI is working on.
The Lens — real-time AI analysis
As contributors build a SparkMap, The Lens reads the characterised deliberation and surfaces emergent patterns — clusters of meaning, insights across threads, and gaps in understanding. What would take a human analyst weeks to assemble becomes visible as the deliberation builds. This is AI working on the right data: context-rich, typed, and evidenced by your own people.
AI that cannot be replicated by generic tools
Generic enterprise AI — Copilot, internal LLMs, any model running on public or corporate document stores — can only analyse what has already been documented. The Lens analyses what is being built right now, by the people who hold the knowledge that matters. The inputs are unique to your organisation. The output cannot be replicated by any generic model.
Characterised data as AI substrate
Every Spark contributed to a SparkMap carries structured metadata through Ignites: argument quality, worldview context, relevance to specific stakeholders. This characterisation is what makes AI analysis meaningful rather than approximate. The Lens reads what was said and from where it was said — producing analysis and outputs that help you navigate the deliberation and surface insights otherwise difficult to see.
From deliberation to deliberative intelligence
Hunome translates AI-analysed collective understanding into structured output: decision seeds, impact seeds, and characterised views of where the organisation converges and where it is ready to act. Not a summary of what was said. A model of what was understood — grounded in the people who built it.
Platform features
Built for the architecture that genuine collective sensemaking requires.
SparkMaps
Living deliberations built around a theme. Contributors add and connect perspectives over time. Unlike documents or decks, SparkMaps grow as understanding deepens and never go stale.
Sparks & SparkOns
Individual contributions — perspectives, research, analysis, experience — connected by typed relationships. The map of how ideas relate is as important as the ideas themselves.
Ignite characterisation
Structured metadata on every contribution: argument quality, worldview context, relevance to specific stakeholders. The substrate that makes AI analysis meaningful.
The Lens (AI analysis)
Real-time AI analysis of the characterised deliberation. Clusters, tensions, gaps, and emerging insights — surfaced as the deliberation builds, not weeks after it ends.
SparkOrbits
Nested deliberations that connect across themes — building understanding that spans contexts, across subthemes, and compounds across time.
Deliberative Intelligence
Structured output for decision-making: decision seeds, impact seeds, convergence maps. The collective understanding, in a form leadership can act on.
Product tiers
Start free. Scale with your needs.
Free Forever
Individuals and groups exploring collective sensemaking at no cost
- ✓Unlimited SparkMaps
- ✓Deliberation contribution and navigation
- ✓Ignite characterisation for The Lens analytics
- ✓The Lens analytics — basic (Trains of Thought, Network view, insights)
- ✓Insights pages: SparkMap, Orbit, Spark and Profile insights
- ✓Open SparkMaps for contributions and viewing by all on Hunome
- ✓Invite others
- ✓Individual SparkOut for sharing quality inputs
Starter
Teams and networks needing SparkMap management and structured output
- ✓Everything in Free
- ✓Basic account
- ✓SparkMap management and roles
- ✓Invitations in bulk and management
- ✓Calendarising for asynchronous and synchronous sessions
- ✓Call-to-build page for open calls — basic tailoring
- ✓SparkMap SparkOut for sharing results — basic tailoring
- ✓Feedback gathering
- ✓Open SparkMaps
Premium
Mid to large enterprises or societal organisations with deliberative intelligence, deliberation frames for different goals, and custom onboarding
- ✓End-to-end collective sensemaking
- ✓Multiple SparkMaps
- ✓Interlinking within account
- ✓Deliberation and navigation
- ✓The Lens analytics
- ✓Deliberation frames
- ✓Deliberative intelligence — premium
- ✓Tailoring to business or impact goals
- ✓Account controls of choice and per SparkMap
- ✓Enterprise SLA and DPA
The understanding your organisation needs is waiting to be built, and your AI investment will work harder when it has it.