HUMANIA · LAUNCH ROUND 2026
Digital Sherpa
AI guidance that leads people back to people.
An AI life-navigation guide that turns life questions into action—and action into the right human connections.
$500K LAUNCH ROUND
Humania Inc. · Delaware C-Corp · Budapest
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THE PROBLEM
Advice is abundant. Timely wisdom is rare.
People do not need another stream of advice.
They need to know where they are, what matters now, what to do next, and who can genuinely help when the next step is hard.
THE MISSING SYNTHESIS
Developmental orientation�The timely next step
Continuous follow-through
Human matching at the right moment
SOCIAL FEEDS
Advice without situational relevance
AI CHAT
Good answers require the right question
COACHING
Personal guidance, limited access
Life is developmental and continuous. What helps depends on where you are—and what is timely for you.
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OUR PROPRIETARY IP
Three Mountains makes the human journey navigable.
A developmental map that helps identify where someone is, what matters now, and what comes next—built from 21 years of practice and 1,000+ individual life stories.
ORIENTATION
Success → Happiness → Meaning
DEVELOPMENTAL JOURNEY
6 stages - 12 milestones
VALUE
Where am I? → What is timely now? → What comes next? → Concrete step
CUSTOMER FEEDBACK
“The Three Mountains system works like Google Maps for my soul.”
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DIGITAL SHERPA · PRODUCT
Digital Sherpa turns the map into action.
A continuous AI guide that uses the Three Mountains map to orient the person, find the timely next step, coach follow-through, and bring in the right person with relevant lived experience.
ORIENT
Understand what is happening
Where am I on the map with this situation?
CHOOSE
Find the timely next step
Big challenges deconstructed into timely steps.
ACT
Coach follow-through
Adaptive commitments and timely check-ins.
MATCH
Bring in human help
The right person at the right moment.
Screens are from current demo · MVP is under development
ORIENT
Provisional orientation
Contextual conversation
ACT
Commitments + follow-through
MATCH
When another person could help, Sherpa surfaces relevant Humania users, matches the right person, and helps set up the meeting.
Planned 1–2 months after MVP within 2026.
THE PRODUCT LOOP
Orientation → timely next step → coached action → right human help
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CHOOSE
HUMANIA · THE TRUST NETWORK
The Trust Network: Humania
A human network built around lived experience, honest sharing, mentoring and real relationships—not followers and content.
COMPANION / FRIEND
Someone beside you
Shared experience · mutual support
MENTOR
Someone ahead of you
Relevant lived experience · perspective
LIFE PARTNER
Someone to build life with
Life direction · commitment · shared future
WHY IT MATTERS
Digital Sherpa will combine developmental context with Humania’s lived experiences and trust signals to find relevant people.
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THIS IS AN AUTHENTIC HUMANIA 1.0 PROFILE · ENGLISH UI WITH TRANSLATED TEXT
OUR STORY · HUMANIA → DIGITAL SHERPA
Humania taught us that people need a guide.
Humania 1.0 showed that people want meaningful connection—but a network alone is not enough. Users still had to understand what was happening to them, decide what mattered, and find the relevant people themselves.
01 · HUMANIA 1.0
The Trust Network
3,400+ registered users
Experiences · dilemmas · goals
Honest sharing · reliance · endorsement
A real learning environment, not PMF
02 · WHAT WE LEARNED
The missing layer was personal intelligence
People need help understanding what
is happening and what is timely now.
They also need help recognizing
who is relevant—and when.
03 · OUR SOLUTION
Digital Sherpa
Private conversation & guidance
Sense-making + timely next step
Continuous follow-through
Relevant human connections when useful
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THE HINGE
LLMs make the original Humania vision practically viable at consumer scale.
Humania built the trust network. Digital Sherpa adds the missing personal intelligence.
THE FLOW
Private guidance → timely action + follow-through → relevant human connections
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FOUNDER–MARKET FIT
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István Joós
The map came before the model.
Founder & CEO
21 years working with people and life journeys · 1,000+ individual life stories · Three Mountains first published in 2015 and refined for 11 years
2 books · 1,000+ videos · 15,000+ people registered to use our online course materials
FOUNDER EVIDENCE
A pattern library behind the product.
The advantage is not content volume. It is 21 years of observed human patterns, distilled into a developmental map before the AI layer existed.
DEFENSIBILITY
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The defensibility is the closed loop—not the chatbot.
Three Mountains, longitudinal context and Humania’s Trust Network can compound into better guidance and better human matching.
01 · EXISTS
Developmental map
21 years of founder work with human patterns
02 · BEING BUILT
Longitudinal private context
Continuity across conversation and action
03 · EXISTS
Structured lived experience
Early Humania experiences, profiles, relationships and trust signals
04 · NEAR-TERM
Human Matching
Relevance + trust signals · planned 1–2 months after MVP within 2026
05 · LONGER TERM
Outcome learning
Learn which guidance, actions and matches �prove useful.
More context → better guidance → more relevant people → better outcomes → better future guidance
STATUS
The loop is the venture thesis.
Mature graphs, matching and network effects are not yet validated.
BUSINESS MODEL
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Free entry. Paid guidance. Marketplace upside.
The AI subscription scales; human support and transactions increase value when useful.
ENTRY
Free
Free orientation + Humania account
CORE
Paid
Digital Sherpa subscription
OPTIONAL
Premium
Human-guided support when useful
LATER
Transactions
People can earn by helping others; Humania takes a transaction fee.
ONE JOURNEY, MULTIPLE VALUE LAYERS
PRICING TO BE TESTED
Digital Sherpa pricing remains to be tested—not a validated fact.
Recurring subscription revenue + premium human support + later transaction fees
LAUNCH + VALIDATION
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Controlled Hungarian cohorts before aggressive scale.
Core Digital Sherpa MVP development is financed; launch, cohorts, matching and validation follow in stages within 2026.
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MVP COMPLETION
Financed
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DIGITAL SHERPA LAUNCH
Hungarian-first iOS + Android
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CONTROLLED COHORTS
Founder audience + Humania base
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HUMAN MATCHING
1–2 months later, within 2026
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LEARN + ITERATE
Measure + iterate
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SCALE
After retention + payment evidence
INITIAL COHORTS
Founder audience + existing Humania users + restrained paid acquisition experiments
PROOF GATES
Activation · D1/D7/D30 return · action/commitment · follow-through · payment/renewal · referral · demand for human help
The objective is evidence—not a PMF claim.
HUMANIA · LAUNCH ROUND 2026
HUMANIA · $500K LAUNCH ROUND · 2026
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$500K
Let’s use AI to lead people back to people.
The core Digital Sherpa MVP is financed separately. This $500K round funds product refinement for launch readiness, AI/data infrastructure, controlled acquisition experiments, measurement, Human Matching rollout, operations and runway toward a later approximately $3M institutional Seed—after meaningful evidence.
START THE CONVERSATION
István Joós · Founder & CEO · istvan@humania.io
Join our round—and help us show that AI can strengthen human connection, not replace it.
APPENDIX · PRODUCT STATUS
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What exists, what is being built—and what comes next.
No PMF, mature matching, marketplace or network-effects claim.
01 · EXISTS NOW
Humania 1.0 + Three Mountains
3,400+ registered; a few hundred active; legacy revenue in the hundreds of USD/month; early experience, trust signals, mentoring and community features.
02 · BEING BUILT
Digital Sherpa MVP
Hungarian-first iOS + Android; conversation, action, memory, voice, analytics and provisional orientation. October 2026 is an operating target.
03 · NEAR-TERM + LATER
Human Matching + Marketplace transactions
Surface relevant Humania users → match → help set up the meeting. Planned 1–2 months after MVP.
LATER: mature Trust/Interaction Graphs, deeper outcome learning and marketplace economics.
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STATUS
Legacy evidence is real. Product integration and compounding still need to be built and validated.
APPENDIX · COMPANY
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Company, ownership and prior financing.
Ownership shown pre-SAFE conversion.
79.2%
ISTVÁN · PRE-SAFE
10.8%
DEV TEAM · PRE-SAFE
10.0%
OPTION POOL
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PRIOR ANGELS
COMPANY
Humania Inc.
Delaware C-Corp · operating base in Budapest · solo Founder
PRIOR FINANCING
$55,871 external · YC SAFEs
Latest valuation cap: $3M