The standard

Accelerator front of house. Brakes built into the chassis.

A system that watches a payment claim or an option deadline has to be right, and has to be able to show why it is right. Governance is not a separate product on this site. It is the standard every build is held to, fitted before the first document is read.

See the engine

No training on your data. No orphan facts.

Why the standard exists

What is acceptable for a chatbot is not acceptable for a deadline.

Many AI pipelines flatten documents into plain text at ingestion. Tables become paragraphs. The clause number detaches from the clause. The chain back to the source page disappears, replaced by a confidence score. For a conversation, that is fine. For an option deadline, a payment claim, or anything a lawyer or adjudicator might one day read, it is not.

Fitted as standard

Five commitments, on every build.

These are not options or tiers. They are the conditions a Lumen & Lever system has to meet before it is allowed near a decision.

01 · Traceable

No orphan facts

Every output cites its source document and page. If the system makes a claim, you can open the page it came from and check it yourself.

02 · Private

Your data stays yours

Your environment or private Australian hosting where selected. No training on your data.

03 · Reviewed

The system drafts; your people decide

Named human review points before any output is relied on. The system assembles and proposes. A person signs.

04 · Audited

A record of what it did

A log of what the system read, produced and flagged, kept for the life of the engagement.

05 · Honest

Confidence is reported, not performed

Uncertain extractions are marked uncertain. The system tells you where it is sure and where it is not, rather than presenting every answer with the same confident tone.

The point

The controls are not a product we sell you.

Other firms sell governance as an engagement: a framework, a workshop, a register that sits beside the system and describes what it ought to do.

We build the controls into the system itself. They come fitted as standard, on the first build and on every build after it, at no separate line item.

Where documents carry the decision, the system runs on Sourcetrace, our document-structure engine. It preserves layout, tables, annotations and page evidence before anything reaches a model.

  • Front of house

    A working system your team uses to find money and meet deadlines.

  • In the chassis

    Traceability, privacy, review, audit and honest confidence, fitted underneath it.

  • No separate sale

    You do not buy the brakes. They are part of the build.

How we engage
1

The Board Session

AUD 5,000, all in.

Your board sends its questions ahead. Every one comes back answered in writing. Then ninety minutes in the room, and you leave with decisions, not a presentation.

One week, end to end.

Book the Board Session
2

The Proof

AUD 9,500, fixed.

Pick the one job you think AI could do. A contract read. A report produced. A cycle shortened. We run it on your own material for two weeks. It works, or you get a written account of why it does not.

Start a Proof
3

The Build

From AUD 35,000, quoted after a Proof.

We build the system, fit the controls, and run it. One proposal, one number, and the running of it is in the number.

Talk about a Build