An independent audit of what the AI is actually costing and returning.
Lumen & Lever examines AI positions and decides them. One engagement, The AI Verdict: every AI contract, licence and system an organisation runs, examined in fifteen working days and decided keep, fix or kill, with every line carrying its dollar figure and its evidence. The same instrument, pointed at a company being bought rather than a company being run, is technical due diligence. Sourcetrace is the document intelligence instrument the evidence read runs on.
The name on the verdict.
Lumen & Lever is led by Lee Powell: Oxford-trained software engineer, roughly thirty years across enterprise architecture and production delivery in banking, insurance, exchange, healthcare and government. He built IBM's first online retail platform and document software used by more than a million writers worldwide. The same discipline that ran a hundred-million-dollar post-acquisition banking integrationa now examines AI positions and signs verdicts on them.
Lloyds International · Commonwealth Bank of Australia · Deutsche Bank · ASX · IBM · Zurich Insurance · GlaxoSmithKline · ASIC · Australian Government Defence · NSW Health · Westpac
These are organisations and sectors from Lee Powell's prior career unless separately named in a Lumen & Lever case record. Confirmed Lumen & Lever outcomes are published separately only when permission exists.
Based in Melbourne. In person or remote, anywhere in Australia, with travel at cost outside Melbourne.
a. Post-acquisition integration programme, Commonwealth Bank of Australia.
"They had an exceptional way of communicating extremely technical topics in a simplified and relatable way."
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The values are not on a plaque.
Too often the values are in the lobby and nowhere else. A company publishes no email address, only a chat window with a bot behind it. Press one, press two, press five, and forty minutes of hold music later the problem is being explained to an AI assistant that cannot fix it. The gap between what is said and what is done has become ordinary.
We are not that. Write to hello@lumenandlever.com. Lee replies, within one business day, and it is actually Lee.
We were once asked a question we have kept: what if five years of work produced two hundred clients instead of twenty thousand, but the right two hundred? We took it seriously. We are not collecting clients. We are building a small number of long relationships with people we would choose to work with anyway, where either both sides win or neither does.