🌀 First Contact: Hugonomy at UIUC’s Five at Five

Hugonomy's founder and CEO reaches out to local advisors and collaborators in Urbana, Illinois.

Hugonomy stepped into the field.

I joined UIUC’s “Five at Five” — a quiet convergence of founders, researchers, and institutional scouts. The energy was ambient, the conversations unhurried. I met someone who listened. Not just to the pitch, but to the pattern.

We talked about emotional infrastructure, the Hugo Score, and the cost of misalignment in AI-na…