Data Foundation
One source of truth. Always fresh. Actually queryable.
Data Foundation is the live operational record of your firm. Every consultant, every business unit, every billing rate, every active requirement, every bench day, every job offer — synced from the systems you already use, refreshed constantly, queryable in one place by Lumiere Live.
Which London based AWS Cloud Architects are rolling off projects in the next few weeks with an hourly rate below 350 GBP?
What's in the live record.
Updated continuously. Available to Lumiere Live and the AI tools the moment it changes.
Consultants
Current role, skill card, certifications, location, language coverage, current engagement, availability calendar, hourly cost, billable rate by tier.
Business Units
Practice, region, leadership, headcount, target utilization, current utilization, P&L year-to-date.
Engagements
Client, scope, start and end, staffing, billing, milestone status, risk signals, deliverables.
Requirements
Open, in-flight, filled. Skills, dates, rate ceilings, region, special clearances. Match candidates already attached.
Rate Cards
By role, region, client tier. Floors, ceilings, exception history.
Bench
Every consultant currently between engagements, classified (training, sales support, true idle), with the days clocked.
Job Offers
Open, accepted, declined. Candidates, start dates, source pipelines.
Fresh today, not days or weeks old.
The utilization report comes out Thursday. The bench list got updated Monday. The rate exception was approved in an email last week and nobody put it in the system. The ATS shows three open offers; finance thinks there are two. This is the operating cost nobody puts on the P&L. Lumiere reads from the source systems continuously — so when you ask, the answer is what's true now.
With Lumiere
Without Lumiere
Reads what you already have.
HRIS — Workday, BambooHR, SAP SuccessFactors, ADP.
ATS - Greenhouse, Lever, SmartRecruiters.
Identity - Azure AD, Okta.
Productivity - Slack, Microsoft Teams, Google Workspace.
Finance - NetSuite, Sage Intacct, Oracle Financials, QuickBooks Online, Xero.
Existing PSAs we can sit alongside while you decide whether to retire them - Kantata, Certinia, BigTime.
Built to be asked questions of, not just stored in.
A traditional data warehouse is good at storing things. Lumiere's Data Foundation is shaped for the questions a consulting firm actually asks - about consultants, requirements, rates, and bench. The schema is consulting-specific. The freshness is operational, not analytical. The query path goes through Lumiere Live, not through a BI tool.
Reports that answer Monday morning.
Because the data is live, the reports are too. Four report types, built for the questions a consulting firm actually needs answered, without chasing systems, exporting spreadsheets, or waiting for Thursday's update.
Resources
Who doesn't have an active assignment right now. Filtered by practice, region, seniority, or skill. The list a delivery director needs before the pipeline review — without building it from four systems.
Bench
Current bench headcount with days idle and classification.. Rolloff forecasting: who comes off engagements in the next 30, 60, and 90 days. Cost simulations: what the current bench is costing the firm per day at each consultant's rate. The number that lives in the P&L but has never been easy to run in real time.
Finance
Daily margin by client and business unit. Low-margin resource flags before the SOW closes. Margin erosion tracked by engagement, by practice, by consultant — without waiting for month-end.
Requirements
Open, in-flight, and filled requirements across the firm. Consultant selection history: how many times a resource has been shortlisted, selected, or passed over across requirements over any time period. The signal most firms have never been able to surface.