Why this team
The way the world deals with knowledge is shifting. Meeting that shift takes more than one kind of expertise: people who know the domain and the pain from the inside, and people who can build, design, sell and ship the answer. We were put together to have both, in one team.
We started from the problem, and we build the technology it calls for. That technology is ambitious: AI and data science that make visible how understanding forms between people as they think together. It does its best work alongside domain depth, human insight, design and judgement. Each discipline makes the others sharper, and that is where the product comes from.
Between us: founding and scaling startups, building technology products, AI and data science, design and branding, academic research, and the rarer piece, deep domain expertise in collective sensemaking itself. That combination is what turns a demanding idea about human- and world-aware decision-making into something real, usable and human-aware by design.
A compact team of thinkers and doers across many countries and nationalities, with more than a hundred years of combined experience between us. It is a rare blend, and it is exactly the one this work needs.
The founders
Dominique Jaurola
Founder, CEO & CPO
Lived the problem before she built the answer, and led on it long before Hunome existed. Inside Nokia in the late 1990s, she argued the organisation needed a vision for the change bearing down on it, and set out to build one through trend analysis and scenario planning and custom built approaches for being human-aware. She brought in outside expertise specifically to deepen the human-aware dimension of the thinking, then led the whole programme, getting sixty-plus colleagues to take part and think together about what was coming.
Years later, one of them told her simply: “you were so right.”
That has been the throughline of a career: more than thirty years in high-tech product, innovation, strategic foresight and strategy across Asia, Europe and the US, and deep domain expertise in collective sensemaking. The thinking was all there in the room; making it meet, and taking it to new heights, was the hard part. That is why she founded Hunome. The big picture and the fine detail in the same head. Second-time founder; earlier built an innovation-community platform.
Mika Raulas
CCO
The client evangelist and resident charmer. Turning new technology into products that amplify how people decide, sense and create, for better business and society (BI, CRM, Platforms, AI): founder, operator, board member, researcher and keynote speaker. Design and development of new business models and breakthrough technology solutions for growth and innovation for enterprises globally.
With over three decades at the intersection of digitalization, platform and SaaS products and businesses, corporate renewal, innovation and business models, and customer experience, Mika has consistently been at the forefront of designing systems that help organizations and individuals make better sense of the world around them for better decisions and alignment. A business and product designer at heart: the one who translates what Hunome does into what it is worth to you.
The people who build it
Deep AI, engineering and design capability: the part of the team that turns the idea into something that runs, ships, and looks like understanding made visible.
Farouk
Dev lead
The engineer who knows the system to the bone. No noise, no hedging: he goes deep, and it ships. Startup-hardened, research-grade thinking turned into things that run, with a senior full-stack engineering team behind him.
Sofya
Data science & AI
The AI innovator digging into what makes Hunome’s analysis different. A pragmatic modeller who would rather ship intelligence that works than admire one that does not.
Jean-Luc
Brand & UI/UX concept
More than branding. A visual conceptualiser who distills complexity into narratives you can actually see, and who drives the Hunome brand across everything. He researched this very problem from the design side, so the thinking runs deeper than the surface: the design is not decoration, it is understanding made visible. Part of the domain expertise, not just its expression.
Abhijith
Product design, UI/UX
Detail and beauty in equal measure. Brings Amazon-grade design discipline to every screen and every flow, and turns that discipline into a standard the whole product holds to.
Why we are still here
We could each be doing something easier. We are here because we think this shift is real, overdue, and worth building properly: this is the change we came to make, not a job we happened to take.
We have watched the waves come and go: the metaverse, web3, one “next big thing” after another, each briefly declared the answer to everything. We kept building. Hunome persists because the problem it addresses does not trend. It compounds.