How lumic works: Forward Deployed Engineers, one job at a time.
FDE stands for Forward Deployed Engineer. lumic’s FDEs are engineers with finance backgrounds who come to you, learn how the work is really done, build AI into one job at a time, and keep it working. lumic does not sell software to configure yourself; the team stays to run what it builds.
lumic starts where the work happens. Live in weeks, not quarters.
01
On-site diagnostic.
lumic’s FDEs work beside your team where the work happens. They map your systems, your data, and the manual steps that take the most time.
02
Build the agent.
The team builds an agent for one job, connects it to your systems, and sets up the approval step. Your team tests it on real work before it goes live.
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Managed and kept working.
lumic watches it, tests it, fixes it, and upgrades it, for a monthly fee. You run the business.
Services
An agent on the job, and a team behind it.
lumic’s FDEs, Forward Deployed Engineers, come to you, learn how the work is really done, and build AI into it. lumic does not sell software to configure yourself; the team stays to run what it builds.
01 · Deploy an agent
One job at a time.
The team starts beside yours and watches the job done by hand: the screens, the checks, the exceptions. Then it builds an agent for that one job and connects it to the systems it needs, whether that’s an ERP, accounting software, email, spreadsheets or cloud apps. It runs on its own dedicated computer, wherever fits your business. Your team tests it on real work before it goes live.
AI agents
System connections
Approval queues
Dashboards
Workflow redesign
Every deployment covers
One job, mapped with your team
A dedicated computer for it, wherever fits
Connected to the systems it needs
An approval step before anything posts
A log of every action it takes
02 · Managed AI agents
lumic keeps it working.
Each agent does one role, such as AP clerk, payroll, or month-end entries. Once it is live, lumic runs it for a monthly fee.
The team watches it, tests it every month, fixes what breaks, and upgrades it as AI improves. A person on your team approves anything before it posts.
The agent prepares each entry. A person on your team checks it and approves it, and the final post stays in your hands. Dashboards only read.
It touches only its job.
lumic gives each agent access to the screens and records its job needs, and nothing more. Every action it takes is logged.
It runs where it fits.
Each agent works on its own dedicated computer, wherever fits your business, under its own login, inside the systems you already run. To read a document, it uses a cloud AI model.
It makes the entry itself.
The agent enters the work in your systems, the same records a clerk would key. A person approves it, and nobody retypes it.
lumic builds it, and keeps it working.
Instead of
With lumic
Typing every bill into two systems
An agent enters it; you approve
Cash receipts keyed from remittances
An agent enters them; you approve
Month-end entries built by hand
Prepared by an agent, approved by you
Exporting the same reports every morning
Live dashboards, no export
Build-and-ghost consultants
A team that stays on
Why lumic
Forward Deployed Engineers who’ve closed the books.
lumic’s FDEs have finance backgrounds. They don’t just deploy agents; they know which back-office jobs are worth automating because they’ve done them.
Every engagement is run by FDEs with finance training, backed by a bench of agents that do the volume.
Finance people who code.
Most FDE teams are engineers who learn finance on the job. lumic’s team lived it first: it has done these back-office jobs by hand, then built the agents that do them.
Live and measured.
A managed AP agent from lumic went live about six weeks after the on-site day. In its first week, 64 of 67 bills went through it. Counted, not estimated.
Is lumic the right fit?
lumic fits a business with people doing repetitive work by hand, that wants it done inside the systems the team already uses, with a person approving what matters. lumic may not be the right fit for buyers who want a self-serve software license to set up themselves, or an agent that acts with no person approving.
Leadership
Finance first. Engineers second.
lumic’s leadership includes a controller and a CFP®, based in St. Louis. Its leaders still work in finance, and that is the point: they run real books on the agents lumic deploys. Senior people lead every engagement, on site, from scoping to support.
CG
Christian Gonzenbach
Co-founder. Controller. Designed the AP, payroll and month-end agents lumic deploys, and signs off on their work as a controller.
