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Project operations intelligence

See what is really happening across projects, people and profit.

LumenSpark connects delivery, capacity, time, cost and operational performance in one system, giving leaders the clarity to identify risk, protect margins and act earlier.

Built for project-driven companies that need more than task tracking.

  • Delivery, capacity and margin in one model
  • Role-based access and audit trail
  • Built and hosted in the EU

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One operating model for the work, the people and the financial reality behind every project.

  • Projects
  • Capacity
  • Time
  • Profitability
  • Operations
  • Governance

Positioning

Project activity is not the same as business performance.

Most tools tell teams what was assigned and what was completed. LumenSpark connects that activity with capacity, time, cost, revenue, utilization and delivery risk.

Conventional project tools LumenSpark
  • Tasks and due datesDelivery reality
  • Isolated time recordsCapacity and utilization
  • Status labelsProject economics
  • Manually prepared reportsMargin movement
  • CommentsAccountable corrective action

Getting there takes implementation work.

Connected operating model

Every number has a path back to the work that produced it.

LumenSpark keeps one chain of records. A client becomes an opportunity, an opportunity becomes a project, a project consumes people and time, time becomes cost, cost becomes margin, and margin informs a decision that stays traceable.

  1. ClientsPartner records
  2. OpportunitiesFunnel and conversion
  3. ProjectsScope, plan, schedule
  4. PeopleCapacity and allocation
  5. TimeTracked and reconciled
  6. CostRates, expenses, billing
  7. MarginRevenue against real cost
  8. DecisionsActions and audit trail
Sales Projects People Finance Governance Calculation is deterministic. Numbers are computed by the platform from your own records.

Capabilities at a glance

The operational picture, assembled from the data you already record.

Nine capability areas run on one data model, so a change in one place is visible everywhere it matters.

Project profitability

Revenue against real labour cost, expenses and billing phases. Cost rates per member make margin a measured number, not an estimate.

31,2% Portfolio net margin

Capacity and utilization

One capacity source: the company work calendar defines a full day, each member contract defines their share of it.

A. Design
112%
B. Engineering
86%
C. Delivery
74%
D. Strategy
52%

Allocated against available, next four weeks

Spark

Spark Insights

The platform computes the numbers, Spark explains what changed and where attention is needed.

Margin below minimum

High risk

margin 18.4% · min 24% · labour €41,200 · revenue €50,500

Ahead of plan

Good

margin 34.1% · spent 410 h · plan 460 h

Project operating flow

From plan to delivered work to the financial result, in one continuous record.

Time as evidence

Timer, manual entry, imports and reconciliation, with billable and non-billable separated.

Data PlatformSchema migration
B
Brand RefreshClient review
B
InternalTeam planning
N

Audit and governance

A hash-linked change log, role-based access and GDPR retention rules.

project.margin_threshold
24% → 26% · 4f2a9c
allocation.update
Design team · 8b17e0
action.assigned
owner + due date · c093df

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ScheduleRolling 12 months
Delivery Portal
Brand Refresh
Data Platform
Retail App
Client Extranet

Schedule view: phases, milestones and the current date marker on one timeline.

How a project moves through the platform

Five stages, one record.

Nothing is re-entered between stages. The plan, the delivered work, the cost and the decision all live on the same project.

  1. Stage 1 - Plan

    Set the commercial and delivery frame.

    An opportunity converts into a project with a team structure, planned hours, expected cost and expected revenue. Milestones and phases are defined before work starts.

  2. Stage 2 - Deliver

    Do the work and record it once.

    Kanban and schedule carry the active work. Time is tracked by timer or entered manually, dependencies and progress stay visible on the same project.

  3. Stage 3 - Measure

    Compare the plan against reality.

    Actual cost, utilization, billable ratio, delivery status and project profitability are derived from the same records, with no separate reporting spreadsheet.

  4. Stage 4 - Understand

    See what changed and why it matters.

    Spark Insights flags margins below threshold, exceeded hour budgets, approaching deadlines and overloaded members, then explains the finding in plain language.

  5. Stage 5 - Act

    Turn the finding into an accountable action.

    Actions get an owner and a due date, approvals are recorded, and every change stays in the audit trail for later review.

Stage 1 - PlanProjects

Opportunity funnel

Qualified
24
Proposal
17
Negotiation
11
Won
7

Planned frame

Planned hours
800 h
Expected cost
36.400 €
Contracted value
50.500 €
Planned margin
27,9%
Team
5
Stage 2 - DeliverKanban
Backlog6
API rate limits8 h
Export template4 h
In progress3
Schema migration12 h
Access review3 h
Done21
Client onboarding6 h
Report layout9 h

Schedule and Gantt view

Discovery
Design
Build
Handover
Stage 3 - MeasurePortfolio
Contracted
50.500 €
Team cost
41.200 €
Net margin
18,4%
Billable
78,1%
Avg utilization
91,0%

Plan vs actual

Project health

Hours against plan
892 / 800 h+11,5%
Cost against plan
41.200 / 36.400 €+13,2%
Margin against minimum
18,4% / 24%-5,6 pp

Spark Insights

3 findings · 2 need attention

updated 2 min ago

Margin pressure is concentrated in one project rather than spread across the portfolio.

Margin below minimum

High risk

Delivery Portallabour cost exceeds plan, margin has dropped below the threshold.

margin 18.4%

Hours budget exceeded

Warning

More hours have been spent than planned.

spent 892 h

The system computes the numbers from your data, Spark only interprets them. Verify before deciding.

Stage 5 - ActChange log
Reallocate 40 h from Design to Delivery
owner: PM · due in 3 days
Open
Re-price change request CR-14
owner: Finance · due in 7 days
Review
Confirm revised milestone date
owner: Delivery lead
Approved

Change log, hash-linked

allocation.update
Design −40 h · Delivery +40 h · 8b17e0
approval.recorded
milestone date · c093df

Spark Insights and AI Narrative

AI that reads the operating context, not just a prompt.

LumenSpark combines structured project, team, time and financial signals to surface patterns, explain operational changes and help management focus attention where it matters.

  • Detected condition with supporting evidence
  • Affected project or team named
  • Severity based on your own thresholds
  • Generated narrative for the period
  • Recommended review area
  • Timestamp and accountable owner

The platform computes every number deterministically. The model interprets and describes those numbers; it does not calculate margin and it does not decide.

Spark Insights

3 findings · 2 need attention

updated 2 min ago

Margin pressure is concentrated in one project rather than spread across the portfolio.

Margin below minimum

High risk

Delivery Portallabour cost exceeds plan, margin has dropped below the threshold.

margin 18.4% · min 24%

Hours budget exceeded

Warning

More hours have been spent than planned.

spent 892 h · plan 800 h

Ahead of plan

Good

Healthy margin with hours below plan.

margin 34.1%

The system computes the numbers from your data, Spark only interprets them. Verify before deciding.

Role-based value

The same records, read the way each role needs to read them.

Navigation and permissions follow the role, so people see the level of detail they are accountable for.

See operational reality before it becomes a board-level surprise.

A single portfolio view of health, margin and utilization, with the underlying detail one level away when a number needs explaining.

  • Portfolio health across all active projects
  • Strategic risk and concentration
  • Company-wide utilization
  • High-level performance over the period
360° overviewRolling 12 months
Net margin
31,2%
Avg utilization
82,4%
Projects / People
18 / 22
At risk
2
Delivered
11
Top client concentration
31% of revenue
Projects below margin minimum
1
Members above full capacity
2

See operational reality before it becomes a board-level surprise.

  • Portfolio health across all active projects
  • Strategic risk and concentration
  • Company-wide utilization
  • High-level performance over the period

Governance, security and system health

Operational transparency that does not disappear at board level.

Access, changes and system state are all recorded. Governance is part of the product rather than a separate spreadsheet maintained after the fact.

Role-based access

Designed with role-based access. Navigation and permissions follow the role, and permission changes take effect on the next sign-in.

Audit trail

The change log records who changed what and when, with records hash-linked so a gap in the chain is detectable.

Authentication controls

Password hashing, sign-in throttling, session regeneration and TOTP two-factor authentication for accounts that enable it.

GDPR-conscious workflows

Built for GDPR-conscious workflows: retention rules, export of a person’s data and a documented deletion path.

Access and session review

Sign-in history and active sessions are reviewable, so access questions can be answered from the record.

System health and diagnostics

Built-in system health and diagnostics surface migration state, integration status and configuration problems.

Change logChange log, hash-linked
member.cost_rate
prev 9f31a2 → 4f2a9c
role.permissions
prev 4f2a9c → 8b17e0
absence.approved
prev 8b17e0 → c093df
gdpr.retention_run
prev c093df → e5a740
Chain continuity
No gaps
Retention rules active
13
Two-factor enabled
TOTP

LumenSpark makes no certification claims.

Where work already happens in another system, LumenSpark reads it in and reconciles it.

  • CLClockify
  • JIJira
  • SLSlack
  • CDClaude
  • CHSpark for Chrome

Stop managing projects in fragments.

Connect delivery, people, time, cost and profitability in one operating model, and give every important decision reliable context.

A demo is a working session on your own operating questions, not a slide deck.

LumenSpark is developed and maintained by Lumen Spei d.o.o. in Osijek, Croatia. The platform started as the operating system for our own project work, which is still how it is used every day.