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ROI Calculator

Every bench day costs money. Lumiere is designed to recover them.

Select your consultant count, your average billable rate, your current bench percentage and your bench recovery rate. The calculator returns the bench billings Lumiere is likely to recover.

The industry problem

Average billable utilization in professional services, 2024

68.9%

The healthy range. Most firms sit below it.

74–84%

What each percentage point of utilization is worth, per consultant per year

~$3,500

Source: SPI Research, 2025 Professional Services Maturity Benchmark (403 firms surveyed). USD figure converted from published €2,500–€4,000 range.

How the math works.

Headcount times bench rate is who's idle today. Recovery rate, yours to set, is the share you'd put back on billing. Times your day rate, times a working year. That's what the bench is costing you.

What does Lumiere cost?

Lumiere is priced by consultant count. The right number is a short conversation.

Sized for the firm you actually are.

50-200

Single-practice firms. One rollout, usually one week to first Lumiere Live answers on real data.

200-2000

Multi-practice firms across two or three regions. Rollout by practice. First Team Builder shortlist in two weeks on average.

2000-50,000+

Global firms, multi-region, multi-ledger, multi-HRIS. Dedicated customer engineer. Enterprise tenancy and bring-your-own-LLM.

Bring a real bench problem. We'll show you Lumiere replacing the spreadsheet.

Twenty minutes with the Lumiere team, we'll go through all numbers to make your decision an easy one.

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