HUGOby Cosmic FuturesThe company
We build for people and companies in the space industry. Signals and Orbiteer collect the data. HUGO puts it to work for each person.
Market intelligence: news, tenders, jobs and the companies behind them, every fact with its source.
The professional network for people in space.
The AI chief of staff that works across both. Every product signs "by Cosmic Futures". When a customer needs to hire, people on our team run the search.
What we're building
You text HUGO what you're chasing. It watches the space industry for you, sends the few things that matter and, after your yes, makes the intro, drafts the email or books the meeting.
The assistant you text instead of an app you open. Invite-only, lives in the chat you already use. We do the same, built for one industry.
Orbiteer, Signals, hugo.space, LinkedIn posts and event badges all send people to HUGO on WhatsApp.
Meta's rules bar general-purpose AI chat on the WhatsApp Business API. HUGO stays focused on briefs, intros and opportunities. Check the policy before launch.
The problem
Space research products report on the market. None of them turns it into a meeting, a bid or a hire.
Sales Navigator, Clay and Affinity automate outreach but know nothing about ESA calls, primes or orbital niches.
One IAC pass is EUR 1,600-1,860 before travel. A UK recruiter takes 15-25% of first-year salary.
What HUGO is
For CEOs, founders and BD leads of space companies with 10 to 200 people. Concierge first: the team reviews every brief before it goes out.
Monday, 08:00
Every item says why it matters to you, links its source and comes with the next step drafted.
Illustrative mock-up, not live data
SME eligible · needs 1 partner · memo ready
Supply-chain lead is in the Orbiteer network
6 of 10 target accounts exhibit
How it feels
From any of our products, a post or a QR code at an event.
Role, company, goals, targets, what to ignore. Saved as a profile.
Three moves, each with its source and deadline.
HUGO does the work. During the pilot a person checks it first.
HUGO (AI) · example chatTrust by design
A0Silent. Reads and watches.
A1Does it and tells you. Briefs, deadlines, watchlists.
A2Prepares, you approve. Every intro, email and memo.
A3A person does it. Hiring and representation by the Cosmic Futures team.
What HUGO can do
What we will not build
High-risk under the EU AI Act from Dec 2027. People at Cosmic Futures decide.
Prohibited by LinkedIn. They get the user's account restricted.
One-to-one, approved, sent from your own mailbox. Opt-out always.
Meta bars general AI assistants. WhatsApp carries alerts and approvals only.
What makes us different
Why we win
HUGO, Signals and Orbiteer are only as good as what they know. Every competitor pays the same price for the same models. A clean, sourced record of who did what in the European space industry takes years to collect, so we start collecting now, in the background, every day.
Every tender portal, grant database, news feed and job board worth reading, pulled on a schedule. Then history: ten years of the same sources, read the same way.
Every fact keeps its sources, the sentence it came from, a date and a confidence. An answer from Signals can be defended in a board meeting.
Orbiteer adds who knows whom and who is open to what, shared with consent. Market tools see companies; we also see the people.
What we collect · status 4 Nov
Command center
Per source: when it ran, what it fetched, what was new, duplicates and errors. The command center shows it on one screen.
A source with nothing new for too long, or three failed runs in a row, posts to our group. Freddy turns it into a task with an owner.
Each relationship shows how many sources back it. One source is a claim; two independent ones, or an official award notice, make it a fact.
| We track every week | Why |
|---|---|
| Sources live and healthy | Coverage only counts if it keeps running |
| New items a day, per source | Shows a broken scraper before a customer does |
| Events with two or more sources | How much of what we say is corroborated |
| Hours from publish to Signals | Freshness is what BD teams pay for |
Who else is in the room
Competition · the landscape
| Category | Who is there today | What they sell | Our product |
|---|---|---|---|
| Space research | Quilty Space, Novaspace, Analysys Mason (NSR), BryceTech, Payload Pro | Reports, forecasts, advisory | Signals |
| Space data and trackers | Space Insider, SpaceNexus, Seraphim tracker, Space Capital, NewSpace Index, SpaceFund | Company databases, investment trackers | Signals |
| B2B data and sales | ZoomInfo, Crunchbase, PitchBook, Dealroom, Sales Navigator, Apollo, Clay, Affinity | Contacts, funding data, outreach | HUGO |
| Tender intelligence | Stotles, Tussell, BidStats, Open Opportunities, Tendium, GovSpend | Tender alerts, buyer data, AI bid help | HUGO |
| Free official tools | TED alerts, esa-match, ESA's esa-star | Notices, partner directory | HUGO, Signals |
| AI assistants | Lindy, Boardy, Happenstance, ChatGPT | General agents, intros, network search | HUGO |
| Talent and community | Space Talent and Gravitate, SpaceCrew, Space Individuals, SpaceCareers.uk, WIA-Europe, b2match | Jobs, networks, event meetings | Orbiteer |
Sources: company sites and pricing pages checked Nov 2026, detailed on the next slides.
Space market intelligence vs Signals
| Product | What it does today | Public price |
|---|---|---|
| Payload Pro | Analysis, weekly chart, research reports, quarterly call | $999/yr per seat |
| Quilty Space | Research hub (Megaconstellation Monthly, earnings reviews), advisory, M&A | Not public |
| Novaspace | Euroconsult + SpaceTec merger (Apr 2024): 20+ reports a year, consulting, events | Not public |
| Analysys Mason (NSR) | Annual research programme or pay per report, data portal | On request |
| Space Insider | Toronto. Companies, funding, flight heritage, government opportunities, advisory | Talk to sales |
| SpaceNexus | 530+ company profiles, US contract awards (SAM.gov), AI-drafted daily analysis | Free tier, $19.99/mo |
| Free trackers | Seraphim tracker, Space Capital Space IQ, BryceTech Start-Up Space, NewSpace Index, SpaceFund rating | Free to read |
Sources: pro.payloadspace.com, quiltyspace.com, nova.space, nsr.com, spaceinsider.tech, spacenexus.us/why-spacenexus, seraphim.vc, spacecapital.com/about, brycetech.com, newspace.im, spacefund.com (all Nov 2026).
B2B and tender tools vs HUGO
| Tool | What it does today | Public price |
|---|---|---|
| Sales Navigator | People and company search, InMail | Core EUR 120.99/mo, Advanced EUR 148.21/mo |
| Clay | Enrichment and AI research workflows | Free; Launch $185/mo; Growth $495/mo |
| Apollo | Contact data, sequences, background agents | Plans listed, prices not shown |
| Affinity | Relationship CRM for deal teams | $2,000-2,700 per user/yr |
| ZoomInfo, PitchBook, Crunchbase | Contact, deal and funding databases | Quote only |
| Dealroom | EU startup and funding data, MCP on Premium Plus | EUR 250/seat/mo, 3 seats minimum |
| Stotles | UK and Ireland tenders, AI bid/no-bid reports, MCP | Free; Basic from GBP 75/mo; Growth from GBP 475/mo |
| Tussell, BidStats, Open Opps | UK tender data; Open Opps claims 1,050 sources in 180+ countries | BidStats GBP 350-800/yr; Open Opps from GBP 120/user/mo |
Sources: business.linkedin.com, clay.com, apollo.io, affinity.co, dealroom.co, stotles.com/pricing, help.stotles.com, tussell.com/faqs, bidstats.uk, openopps.com (pricing pages, Nov 2026). PitchBook, ZoomInfo and Crunchbase publish no list price.
Free and general AI substitutes
ESA's own free directory since March 2021: company profiles, a Marketspace for offers and needs, ESA and non-ESA tenders for finding consortium partners, an events calendar.
TED is free to search and sends free email alerts. BidsFactory sends a free weekly digest of new ESA tenders.
General AI agents. Free trial credits, Team from $29.99/mo. A technical founder can wire up a weekly tender brief alone.
AI "superconnector": you join by phone call, it makes intros to investors, customers and hires. $8M seed led by Creandum (Jan 2025). Founders and investors, not space.
AI search over your own network. Free; Pro $24/mo billed yearly. Claims 500,000+ users.
Pulse launched Sept 2025 with proactive morning briefs for Pro users. One Oct 2026 report says it moved into scheduled tasks. Generic, not sourced tender work.
Sources: esa.int (esa-match pages), match.esa.int, ted.europa.eu, bidsfactory.com, lindy.ai/pricing, techcrunch.com (Jan 2025, Sept 2025), happenstance.ai/pricing (Nov 2026).
Networks and talent vs Orbiteer
| Network | What it is today | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Space Talent (Space Capital) | 10,000+ roles, salary database, monthly office hours with partners | Free profile |
| Gravitate (Space Capital) | Curated network of verified space professionals, sector cohorts | Not public |
| SpaceCrew | London. Stellar Jobs + Rocket Crew merger; jobs, salary insights, sourcing for employers | Not checked |
| Space Individuals | Job board, CV database of about 2,000, weekly newsletter | From EUR 149/post (review site) |
| SpaceCareers.uk | Non-profit early-career board with UKSEDS, relaunched July 2023 | Free |
| WIA-Europe | Non-profit since 2009, Noordwijk; 996 individual members (2023), mentoring, local groups | Membership fee |
| Event matchmaking | b2match runs Space Tech Expo Europe meetings: 1,596 people, 3,383 meetings in 2024. Swapcard, Brella: general event apps | Free for visitors |
Sources: spacecapital.com/talent, spacetalent.org, spacecrew.com press release, betterteam.com/space-individuals, ukspace.org (Jul 2023), wia-europe.org annual report 2023, b2match.com Space Tech Expo pages (Nov 2026). No space show confirmed on Swapcard or Brella.
Honest scorecard
Sources: competitor facts from slides 2 to 5; nova.space (Apr 2024 merger release), spacecapital.com/about (Nov 2026).
Action points
| Action | Owner | When |
|---|---|---|
| Book b2match meetings for Space Tech Expo Europe, Bremen 17-19 Nov | Hugo | This week |
| Register Cosmic Futures on esa-match; compare its tender list with ours | Hugo | This week |
| Run Stotles' 3 free AI bid/no-bid reports; benchmark HUGO's memo against them | Serge | This week |
| Show ESA STAR and TED tenders in the Signals UI, so "Europe-first" is true on screen | Serge | This month |
| Add one pitch line: what HUGO does that TED alerts, esa-match and free trackers do not | Hugo | This month |
| Buy one Payload Pro seat ($999/yr) as a coverage benchmark for Signals | Serge | This month |
| Approach Space Capital (Space Talent) and SpaceCrew about a job feed into Orbiteer | Hugo | Q1 2027 |
| Decide on a Signals MCP or API: Stotles and Dealroom already ship one | Serge | Q1 2027 |
Sources: b2match.com Space Tech Expo Europe B2B 2026, match.esa.int, stotles.com/pricing, pro.payloadspace.com, dealroom.co/pricing (Nov 2026).
What is worth building
The product family
The space industry's own app: what's happening, who's talking, which events to go to, where your career goes next.
Market intelligence for space corporates. A command centre that briefs the boardroom.
The personality on top. Same agent, same memory, whether you meet him in Orbiteer, in Signals or in a chat.
Orbiteer
Signals events turned into posts, plus members' own updates. Good content every day, not recruiter spam.
Comments on every event. Space people love to discuss who raised and who lost a deal. That talk is the hook.
IRL events and meetups, organised by members and by HUGO.
Career progression, mentoring, private intent. Later: hiring and team tools for startups.
Signals
A dark, calm command centre that knows the market and tells a BD team what moved overnight. This is the product companies pay for.
Map, lenses and briefings in one screen. Built in PR #33, not merged yet.
Every company, its deals, people moves and open tenders, with sources.
What Orbiteer members say about an event, as counts and quotes members allow. Only Orbiteer collects it.
Ask about any company and get an answer with sources, the way you'd ask a chief of staff.
Push to Slack, email or the client's own systems. Enterprise contracts later.
BD, strategy and investor-relations teams at primes, scale-ups and investors.
Events · Orbiteer for organisers, Signals for management
Any member or company sets up an event in Orbiteer and sells tickets. Payment by card in EUR or USD.
QR ticket in Orbiteer, plus who else is going and HUGO's "meet these three" list.
The organiser's employees scan tickets with their own Orbiteer app. Staff role, no extra hardware.
Signals shows check-ins, which companies came, who met whom, with a Jarvis agent that draws charts on request.
Space business happens at events. Tickets bring revenue, daily app opens and the best data on who meets whom.
there.fm already runs booking and check-in. Reuse it under Orbiteer, with a card-payment provider behind it.
Free RSVPs for our own meetups first, then paid tickets for small organisers, then large event companies with staff scanning and dashboards.
Architecture · should we merge Signals and Orbiteer?
| Share | Keep separate |
|---|---|
| One Cosmic Futures login | Databases and deploys |
| Contracts repo of types | Product UIs and brands |
| Change feed between products | Pricing and buyers |
| HUGO and its memory | Security level: enterprise vs consumer |
Two working codebases on different stacks (raw SQL vs Supabase, Firebase auth, Neo4j). Merging costs weeks before Bremen and mixes enterprise data with a social app.
Comments are social content, so they belong in Orbiteer, with its users and moderation. Signals reads the pulse through one API call. The signals.space side isn't pushed yet, so this is cheap to change today.
There is a team of more than two engineers, or the same feature gets built twice.
Mobile
iOS and Android from React Native on the existing Orbiteer API. Feed, comments, events, profile, and a HUGO chat tab.
Apple Developer for organisations is $99 a year and needs a D-U-N-S number, which can take weeks. Google Play is $25 once. Enrol Cosmic Futures, not a personal account: moving apps later is slow.
The daily habit lives on the phone. Signals users work at a desk; the app is where people come back every day.
What is worth doing
Launch A for company leaders. Signals collects in the background every day. Fix the PII and shared-secret issues. Move comments into Orbiteer. Store accounts.
Orbiteer app MVP. Signals command centre for the first paid pilots.
HUGO inside both apps, community pulse in Signals, paid event tickets and door scanning in Orbiteer, startup hiring tools.
Merging codebases. A full HR suite. Anything without a buyer or a daily user.
Two founders, three products and an agent. Only HUGO briefs and Signals pilots make money this quarter; Orbiteer grows the audience.
"X lost a deal" can be wrong or defamatory. Reporting, moderation and clear terms before comments show inside Signals.
Voice, faces, mark
Meet HUGO
Talks like the sharpest friend you have in the industry. Short, dry, never corporate.
Tells you what he would do and why. Pushes you to make the move, then backs you.
Every message is about the person in front of him: your goals, your targets, your week.
Every claim has a source and a date. Never sends anything without your yes.
20 faces · one for every moment
WaveFirst messageHelloWelcome, says he's AI
ListeningYour goals and targets
AskingDid I get that right?
DoneProfile saved
CoffeeYour brief is here
ReadingSources, one tap away
Found itA move worth your time
SkepticalLow confidence, check this
QuietNothing worth it this week
FocusedCloses in 48 hours
ThinkingDrafting your memo
SentDone after your yesNeutralDefault avatar
Knowing smileBoth said yes: intro made
ShhPrivate career plans
Excited6 of your targets at Bremen
CelebrateYou won it, or hired
SurprisedBig news in your segment
SorryI got something wrongBrand · positioning
HUGO should feel like the sharp chief of staff you can't hire yet: brief, sourced, a step ahead. Calm on the surface, exact underneath.
Brand · direction A, Monolith
Wordmark. Heavy grotesk, tracked wide. No icon, no planet, no rocket.
Avatar for email, Telegram and WhatsApp. The same weight as the wordmark.
Endorsement lockup: every product signs as Cosmic Futures.
Brand · system
No accent colour. Emphasis comes from size and from white against grey.
Host Grotesk. Headlines and body.
Host Grotesk caps. Sources, dates, status.
Every message says it's from an AI (AI Act Art. 50) and names its sources.
Brand · architecture
HUGO, Signals and Orbiteer keep their names, each signed "by Cosmic Futures". Inside Signals and Orbiteer the agent appears as HUGO.
Signals sees. Orbiteer knows. HUGO acts. Hiring stays with people on the Cosmic Futures team.
"HUGO" is a well-known fashion trademark. Search classes 9, 35 and 42 and secure a domain before any spend.
The agent shares Hugo's first name: warm inside the network, confusing at scale. Keep it, or treat HUGO strictly as a product name.
Who it is for
How we help each type of user
| Who | They tell HUGO | HUGO sends them | Who pays | When |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Founder / CEO | Targets, runway, hiring gaps, event budget | Tenders, grants, partner moves, which event to attend, drafted intros | Company subscription | Week one |
| BD / partnerships | Accounts, regions, what they sell | Buying signals, procurement windows, who to meet at events | Company subscription | Week one |
| Engineer / specialist | Skills, what they want next, kept confidential | Roles, mentors, peers, local meetups. Employers see nothing without opt-in | Free. Employers pay via Cosmic Futures | Week one, via Orbiteer |
| Hiring manager | The role and what good looks like | A shortlist from Cosmic Futures, chosen by people, not by the bot | Retainer or success fee | After Bremen |
| Investor / analyst | Theses and watchlists | Funding, contracts and new teams, sourced weekly | Later, once the data is proven | Later |
First customers
A free "who to meet and why" brief for 15 named companies, sent by Fri 13 Nov, before Space Tech Expo Europe (17-19 Nov). Then one question: want this every week?
38 researched targets, 17 in Portugal, each with a recent funding, contract or hiring trigger. Incubators and investors resell the Incubator plan.
60-day funnel, target
What already exists
What already exists
Signals · what we improve · checked 3 Nov
Orbiteer · what we improve · checked in code
What HUGO can say · built on Orbiteer and Signals today
HUGO (AI) · exampleNeeded first, once (M): phone + WhatsApp consent, HUGO acting for a member with permission, message templates.
How it connects
Outcomes flow back: a yes, a meeting or a hire improves the next brief · Already wired today: Orbiteer pulls Signals every hour
Contacts
Name, company, role, user type (from the user-type table), source (Bremen list, Orbiteer, LinkedIn, inbound), owner, last touch, next step and its date, notes.
A contacts table in Freddy's database, next to our tasks and decisions. Anyone who messages HUGO is added. Each morning Freddy posts who needs a follow-up today, and any Claude Code session can read or update a contact. Every message we send is one to one, written or approved by one of us.
Why we can ship in weeks
News, ESA tenders, space job boards, company extraction.
The professional network, connections and a matching digest.
People at Cosmic Futures who run hiring searches for customers.
A new, thin service over the other two, plus free EU and UK tender APIs and the there.fm agent, voice, WhatsApp and payments stack.
How it all connects
System map
Shared by all three: the contracts repo of zod schemas, pinned by git tag
Six decisions
signals.space owns data, Orbiteer owns people, HUGO owns every customer conversation.
Each product exposes /integration/v1. GET only, one token per caller.
One repo of zod schemas. Open enums, tolerant parsing, contract tests.
A cursor with a 15-minute overlap. If HUGO is down, nothing is lost.
Code drives it, models fill steps, a checker blocks unsupported claims.
The model only proposes. A person approves. Plain code sends, once.
What the code says today · checked 3 Nov 2026
| Found in the repos | Risk | Fix, week 0 |
|---|---|---|
| Open signals routes | High, GDPR. Read routes have no auth; entity rows include scraped contact email and phone. | Strip contact fields and cap lists now; lock reads once every caller has a token. |
| Shared secret | High. One INTEGRATION_SECRET also unlocks merge, delete and scrape runs. Orbiteer holds it. | Rotate; new read-only guard; one token per caller. |
| Dead calls | Broken today. Orbiteer calls comment routes signals.space doesn't have. | Remove the calls or build the routes. |
| Voice tools | High. One shared secret, and the model sets "confirmed" itself. | Per-call signed token; voice can only propose. |
How they connect
zod schemas: common, signals/v1, orbiteer/v1, hugo/v1
Contract test: seeded DB, every response parsed by the schema.
Serves members/search, reads the signals feed.
Parses recorded fixtures. CI fails on drift.
Named ID spaces (signals.entity.id, orbiteer.expert.id). Unknown category skips the item, never the page. Dates ISO UTC, money as amount + currency. Page max 100. Mappers only: no internal fields, no contact PII.
IntegrationReadGuard: GET only, hashed and revocable token, throttled per token. HUGO_SIGNALS_TOKEN, ORBITEER_SIGNALS_TOKEN, HUGO_ORBITEER_TOKEN. Writes come later with their own guard and scope.
HUGO → signals.space
| GET /integration/v1/… | Returns | Called by |
|---|---|---|
| events?updatedAfter= | classified events, cursor, hasMore | feed pull, every 10 min |
| tenders?updatedAfter= | tenders whose content changed | feed pull |
| jobs?updatedAfter= | job posts | feed pull |
| events | tenders | jobs/:id | full record; 404 means gone | tools, brief re-check |
| entities/search?q= | name, alias, website match + score | onboarding |
| entities/:id | entity, or mergedInto | company snapshot |
| entities/:id/signals | signals for one company | backfill, dossier |
| entities/redirects | fromId, toId, mergedAt | feed pull |
| taxonomy | event categories | onboarding |
HUGO never uses signals.space watchlists, /intel or any write route. It keeps its own watch sets per account.
The change feed
On classification, entity link change, or a tender content-hash change.
Page until hasMore is false. Store the highest (time, id).
Unique per account, kind and ref. Flags material changes.
If HUGO is down, a push is lost. A cursor just resumes.
signals.space writes from many places. A trigger on updated_at catches all of them.
Redirects rewrite watch sets. A new account gets 90 days of backfill at once.
HUGO → Orbiteer and the outside world
HUGO prepares the brief; Hugo makes the intro through Orbiteer's request flow.
POST /intros with double opt-in, a write token and 2 per member per month.
| Service | Used for | When |
|---|---|---|
| Claude API | agent, briefs, memos | MVP |
| Jev | triage, routing, claim rules | MVP |
| Resend | brief + memo email | MVP |
| Stripe | billing | week 3 |
| Telegram | chat + approve buttons | week 4 |
| ElevenLabs + Telnyx | callbacks (built, off) | v1.1 |
| templates + buttons | v1.1 | |
| Gmail, Calendar | drafts, free/busy | v1.1 |
From feed to Monday brief
7 days, deadlines, unseen, clustered
Ranks ~300 at once, says why you
Re-fetch, drop closed, add context
Cites evidence; code renders dates
Facts, links, Jev rules. Fail blocks.
Keep, edit, delete with a reason
Approved send, coverage footer
Rules + full-text + vector search per interest, so a subcontract story is found without a keyword match.
Dates, amounts and "closes in N days" come from source fields, never from the model.
Runs on the Batch API; goes out Monday after review.
Actions
Approval is a POST from a signed-in session. The token is bound to the action, the person and the payload hash.
A0 read · A1 do and tell · A2 approve first · A3 a person does it. Nothing reaches a third party below A2.
The hash covers every field: to, cc, body, links. Frozen after approval.
A lease while executing. A crash mid-send goes to unknown, never an automatic retry.
A spoken yes only proposes. The confirm link, sent to the channel on file, approves.
Inside the agent
Security review
| Threat | Fix in the design |
|---|---|
| Prompt injection | In scraped pages or mail. Tool-less extraction first; recipients only from contacts; A2 for anything outbound. |
| Voice "yes" | Voice only proposes; approval is a POST from a signed-in session. |
| Mail scanners | Opening the link shows a review page; only a POST approves. 30 minutes, CSRF. |
| One master secret | Rotate; read-only guard; one hashed token per caller. |
| Cross-account reads | Postgres row-level security per account. |
| OAuth token leak | Envelope encryption; least-scope Gmail and Calendar. |
| Personal data | No contact PII across repos; retention rules; DPIA and DPAs before v1.1. |
Evals and tracing
Each delete or edit in review carries a code: wrong fit, stale, wrong fact, tone, missed item. That is the labelled set.
Selection recall, fact accuracy, injection cases, action safety. Run on the Batch API before any prompt or model change.
Items kept unedited, review minutes per brief, verify-gate blocks, actions approved vs rejected.
Langfuse with OpenTelemetry GenAI conventions. Accepted edits update the account profile.
Four reviews, against the code
Found the 10-second feed delay still skipped rows. Now: 15-minute overlap, keyset paging, upsert. Corrected six wrong assumptions about the repos.
Public PII routes, the shared admin secret, model-set voice confirmation, approve links that a GET could trigger. All fixed in the plan.
The brief became a verified pipeline. Cut MCP, Managed Agents, voice on the registry and early Telegram from the MVP.
Twelve contradictions between sections fixed: lock-read order, triggers, Telegram timing, review UI auth, cost figure.
Build order
| When | signals.space | Orbiteer | HUGO | contracts |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Week 0 | Strip PII, cap lists, rotate secret, read guard | Drop dead comment calls | Voice tools off | Repo, common + signals/v1 |
| Week 1 | updated_at triggers, change feed | New token | Feed pull, profile, review UI (founders only) | Fixtures, provider tests |
| Week 2 | Lock reads | Opt-in flag | Pipeline + verify gate, first Bremen brief | hugo/v1 |
| Week 3 | Redirects on merge | members/search | Action ledger, email approve, Stripe | orbiteer/v1 |
| Week 4 | - | Move sync to the feed | Telegram, evals in CI | - |
| v1.1 | More tender sources | POST /intros | WhatsApp, voice, Gmail, MCP | Write schemas |
What we build on
Pricing, targets, cost, funding
The numbers · targets, not forecasts
Our reachable buyers: about 400 funded companies with 10-200 people in Portugal, the UK, the Netherlands and Germany. That is our estimate, not a survey.
| Case | May 2027 · 6 months | Nov 2027 · 12 months |
|---|---|---|
| Slow | 10 companies · €5k MRR | 30 companies · €15k MRR |
| Base | 20 companies · €10k MRR | 60 companies · €30k MRR |
| Fast | 35 companies · €17k MRR | 100 companies · €49k MRR |
| Free users | 300 individuals | 1,500 individuals |
Assumes €490 a company a month on average: 40% Incubator, 45% Pilot, 15% Team. Base at 12 months is €350k a year run rate, about 15% of the reachable 400. Cosmic Futures hiring fees come on top and are not counted. Hugo's calls at base: about 26 hours a month, so his calendar is the real cap. First cohort is 10 companies.
Pricing proposal
ESA BIC and incubator startups. 1 user. 30 min with Hugo a quarter.
10-200 people. All MVP actions, 1 event plan a quarter, 2 users, 30 min with Hugo a month. 3-month commitment.
5 users, 60 min strategy call with Hugo a month, priority hiring desk.
Free for individuals. Career radar, mentor intros, monthly open Q&A with Hugo.
Also offered in USD. Hiring stays a separate Cosmic Futures success fee.
Cost per account per month · estimate
| Item | USD / month |
|---|---|
| Weekly brief | $4-8 (Batch, cached) |
| Verify, Jev, embeddings | $2-4 |
| MVP total | $6-12 |
| + chat | $8-40, light to heavy use |
| + voice (v1.1) | $4-5 |
Estimates from list prices and planned token counts, not measured. Re-measure after the first Bremen brief.
Funding
Reported as $125k for 7% on a post-money SAFE, plus $375k on an uncapped SAFE that converts at the next priced round. Check the official page before we count on it.
Paying pilots from Bremen, Orbiteer's member numbers and the HUGO brief working for real customers.
ESA BIC Portugal and other space incubators: grants and no or low equity.
Weeks, operations, accounts
Week one · before Bremen
Six weeks
Fix security blockers. New hugo repo and schema.
Opportunity engine v0, tender connectors. 15 briefs out by Friday.
Approval flow, audit, memos, drafts. Hugo at Bremen.
Billing, onboarding, alerts with approve buttons. First 3 pilots.
Double opt-in via Orbiteer. Hiring requests. Incubator partners.
Ranking from outcomes. First Space Workday. 5+ pilots.
How we know it works
Accepted intros + meetings held + bids submitted + hires progressed that the customer marks useful, per account per quarter.
of briefs opened
approved action per brief
factual errors reaching a customer
paid pilots by day 60, or we narrow to tender memos only
How we work
Monday planning sets one sprint goal in a sentence. Second Friday: demo to Hugo, then a 20-minute retro. Sprint 1 is 2-13 Nov: Bremen briefs out.
Same time every day, Lisbon time. Done yesterday, doing today, blocked by. Written in Telegram when we can't meet.
Sprint goal pinned in the group. Every task has one owner, a status, a date and its PR link. /tasks shows it split by person.
Every build, preview and release is posted to HUGO Dev in Telegram. Major changes wait for Hugo's approval.
Releases
Linked to its Freddy task. CI runs typecheck, tests and audit.
The bot posts the preview link, what changed and the CI result to HUGO Dev.
If it's labelled major, Hugo taps Approve or Reject. Minor changes skip this.
Deploy to production. The bot posts the live link and a one-tap rollback.
Who approved, when, which commit. Freddy marks the task done.
Database migrations, auth and permissions, pricing and billing, anything that messages a customer or a third party, new data sources, and visible UI changes.
A GitHub production environment with Hugo as required reviewer. The Telegram bot calls the GitHub API when he taps Approve, so nobody can deploy around the gate.
Accounts we need
This week
Freddy, our team agent
Our internal agent
Talks in energy, flow and manifesting. Mostly manifests Jira-grade nagging.
Says what the two of us are thinking. Only inside our private group.
Jokes are loose, tasks are not: every task has an owner, a status and a date.
Freddy never talks to customers, members or anyone outside the two of us.
The internal flow · click any box
Deck reviews
Press Record review, bottom left. Allow the mic once.
Each slide's audio goes to Freddy tagged with its number, like 5.3.
End review. Freddy pulls decisions, tasks and PRD changes, each tied to a slide.
One tap in Telegram. Decisions are logged as "made in deck review, slide 5.3".
The next Claude session writes the confirmed changes into the PRD.
Recording only starts on a button press and shows a red light. Say so when someone else is on the call.
Ideas that were only floated don't become decisions, and nothing is saved until one of us confirms.
Freddy · architecture
No customer data. No access to the product databases. Separate from every product.
Standups
Send a voice note, paste a transcript, or forward the Meet notes.
Voice goes through Whisper. Text goes straight in.
Claude pulls out decisions, tasks with owner and date, and blockers.
Freddy posts the list with buttons. Either of us fixes or approves.
Tasks and decisions go to Neon, linked to the original transcript.
/tasks, /mine, /done 12, /standup, /breathe, /focus 90. Or just say "Freddy" in plain text.
Start with paste and voice. Later: Meet's own transcript in Drive, or a meeting bot that joins the call.
Freddy only creates tasks someone said out loud, and asks when the owner or date is missing.
Freddy and Claude Code
| MCP tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| tasks_mine | open tasks for the person running the session |
| task_create | adds a task with owner, project and date |
| task_update | status, note, link to a PR or deploy |
| standup_latest | last standup's decisions and blockers |
| decision_log | records a decision and who made it |
| post_to_group | a one-line update in the Telegram group |
| inbox · reply_as_freddy | read the chat and answer as Freddy |
| tasks_by_person · tasks_confirm | the board split by person, confirm in one call |
One line in each repo's CLAUDE.md: at the start, read my Freddy tasks; when done, update the task and post one line to the group.
One token per person, hashed in Neon, revocable. Sessions act as that person, so the group sees who did what.
A task made in Telegram shows up in Claude Code, and the other way round.
Freddy · build
Bot from BotFather, private group, Neon database, task commands, 08:30 nudge.
Paste and voice notes, extraction, confirm buttons, Friday wrap.
MCP server, tokens for both of us, CLAUDE.md line in every repo.
Google Meet transcripts, weekly review, links to GitHub and Vercel.
| Table | Holds |
|---|---|
| tasks | title, owner, status, project, due date, source (chat, standup, Claude session), links |
| standups | date, source, transcript, summary, who confirmed |
| decisions | what was decided, by whom, when, from which standup |
| notes | anything else worth keeping, searchable |