Data Foundation
The live record underneath everything else.
In most consulting firms, the answers to basic questions live in three or four places at once. Data Foundation is the layer that resolves that. Every consultant, business unit, rate, requirement, bench day, and offer in one live record, synced continuously from the systems you already run.
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 record.
Updated continuously. Available to Lumiere Live and the AI tools the moment it changes.
Consultants
Role, skills, certifications, location, languages, current engagement, availability, cost, billable rate.
Business Units
Practice, region, headcount, target and current utilization, P&L YTD.
Engagements
Client, scope, dates, staffing, billing, milestones, risk, deliverables.
Rate Cards
By role, region, tier. Floors, ceilings, exception history.
Bench
Every consultant between engagements, classified and clocked.
Job Offers
Open, accepted, declined — with candidates, dates, pipelines.
Requirements
Open, in-flight, filled. Skills, dates, rate ceilings, clearances, attached candidates.
Fresh today, not last Thursday
Reports take a day. Approvals live in email. The ATS and finance often hold slightly different versions of the same number. It's just how multi-system data live. Lumiere reads from the source systems continuously, so when you ask, the answer is always current.
With Lumiere
Without Lumiere
Reads what you already run.
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.
An actionable operating system, not just storage.
Data warehouses are designed for storing. Lumiere's schema is designed around the questions a consulting firm actually asks, about consultants, requirements, rates, and bench. Actionable operational capabilities beyond analytics. Asked through Lumiere Live, not through a BI tool.
Reports that answer Monday morning.
Live data, live reports. Four report types built for the questions consulting firms ask most.
Resources
Who's unassigned right now, filtered by practice, region, seniority, or skill. The list a delivery director needs before the pipeline review.
Bench
Current headcount, days idle, classification. Rolloff at 30/60/90 days. Daily idle cost at each consultant's rate.
Finance
Daily margin by client, BU, and engagement. Low-margin flags before the SOW closes. Erosion tracked without waiting for month-end.
Requirements
Open, in-flight, and filled across the firm. Selection history, who's been shortlisted, picked, or passed over, over any window.