Augmented board

Test your idea before the market destroys it

13 experts. No mercy. One clear verdict in minutes.

22

Board sessions run

60

Avg. board score

AI viability / 100

~2 min

Avg. analysis time

1

Active founders

Architecture

A 3-Phase Decision Engine

Lumor isn’t a chat gimmick. It analyses your brief in parallel, stress-tests weak reasoning on purpose, then turns the friction into a verdict, a score, and a plan—not a thread to decode.

Parallel Deep Dives

Three specialist pods run in parallel across thirteen voices: leadership, experts & delivery, then critique / compliance / mentorship. Technical, financial, product, design, and risk angles surface together—not in slow sequence.

  • Leadership pod: CEO, CTO, CMO, PM — vision, stack & debt, market narrative, roadmap trade-offs.
  • Experts & delivery pod: investor, CFO, product strategist, designer, full-stack dev — traction, cash, pivot & MVP, identity, feasibility.
  • Critical & guardrails pod: Karen, legal reviewer, intern, Grace — UX friction, compliance, wildcard angles, culture and long term.

The Stress Test

Orchestrated opposition: deliberate clash lanes pit roles against your plan so fragile assumptions show up before customers, investors, or your roadmap do.

  • Karen (critic) attacks perceived value and UX promises.
  • VC investor challenges acquisition logic and business case.
  • CTO confronts timeline, scope, and technical expectations.

Leadership & Execution

The chair filters noise: the CEO arbitrates—keeping what survives scrutiny and retiring what doesn’t. The PM compresses into a sequenced roadmap; synthesis also folds in finance, pivot, and design reads from phase 1.

  • Final verdict and board-level score.
  • Explicit approved vs rejected threads.
  • Time-boxed actions: what to do next, in order.

Session output

Board score, transcript, CEO arbitration, PM roadmap, and specialist fields (cashflow, pivot, design)—one structured report to validate your project and prioritise next steps.

Modes

One engine. Three levels of pressure.

Same pipeline underneath. Calibrate how hard the board pushes—balanced arbitration, maximum scrutiny, or cold investor logic—without switching tools.

Boardroom

Balanced mode. Lumor challenges the idea, surfaces real tensions, then compresses the debate into clear arbitration and a sequenced roadmap.

Constructive, strategic, decision-oriented.

  • Structured debate with sane pushback
  • Ideal before you commit engineering or capital
  • Ends with priorities you can execute

Killer Mode

Maximum pressure. The board attacks weak assumptions, vague positioning, UX gaps, and fragile economics—fast.

Brutal, sharp, unforgiving.

  • Roast-level stress test
  • Surfaces weak value perception early
  • Best for killing bad ideas before they cost you

VC Pitch

Investor register. Lumor stress-tests TAM narrative, monetization logic, CAC/LTV, defensibility, and ROI credibility.

Cold, financial, high scrutiny.

  • Go / no-go style reasoning
  • Market size, unit economics, scalability
  • Pitch readiness and monetization clarity

Same engine. Different intensity.

The thirteen voices

A simulated meeting: each role reacts to the others to challenge your idea, then Lumor consolidates transcript, synthesis, and a professional palette into a structured report.

Executive committee

CEO vision

Stage name : Marcus Aurelius

Signature line:Decide—or you're just decorating slides.

Persona : Stoic, authoritarian, sharp.

Focus : Strategic prioritisation, long-term narrative, and business trade-offs.

Product manager

Stage name : Simon Scoped

Signature line:Scope isn't boring. Scope is oxygen.

Persona : Methodical; wants scope and deadlines.

Focus : Roadmap, MVP scope, dependencies, and success criteria.

CTO architect

Stage name : Binary Bob

Signature line:Bad architecture outlives every brave deadline.

Persona : Technical, skeptical, paranoid.

Focus : Stack, technical debt, scalability, and implementation risk.

CMO

Stage name : Clara Growth

Signature line:No distribution, no company.

Persona : KPI-obsessed, aggressive on acquisition.

Focus : Positioning, market message, channels, and user perception.

Experts & operations

Investor

Stage name : Cedric Cash

Signature line:Traction talks. Decks walk.

Persona : Arrogant; wants ROI, scalability, exit.

Focus : Traction, metrics, funding, and plan credibility.

CFO

Stage name : Cashflow Cal

Signature line:No margin, no company.

Persona : Cold on numbers; sceptical of decks without margins.

Focus : Runway, CAC/LTV, profitability thresholds, and financial assumptions.

Product strategist

Stage name : Pivoting Pete

Signature line:Pivot early—or paint the tombstone.

Persona : Iterative, obsessed with hypothesis tests.

Focus : Pivot, discriminating MVP, market learning sequence.

Designer

Stage name : Pixel Pedro

Signature line:Trust dies in ugly UI.

Persona : Demanding on visual clarity and user trust.

Focus : Identity, readability, flows, and product coherence.

Full-stack developer

Stage name : Kevin the Coder

Signature line:Clever today is debt tomorrow.

Persona : Pragmatic; talks tech debt and latency.

Focus : Concrete feasibility, real complexity, and delivery path.

Iconoclastic intern

Stage name : Tom the Disruptor

Signature line:What if the premise is already dead?

Persona : Cheeky, wild hacks, Gen Z energy.

Focus : Absurd angles that surface hidden assumptions.

Critical review & compliance

Critical voice

Stage name : Karen the Menace

Signature line:Better I kill it than the timeline does.

Persona : Cynical, ruthless, out to kill the idea.

Focus : UX friction, overpromises, and reputation blind spots.

Legal reviewer

Stage name : Counsel Paranoid

Signature line:One bad clause scales like a virus.

Persona : Risk-, GDPR-, and lawsuit-obsessed.

Focus : Contracts, IP, compliance, and risky wording.

Advisor

Stage name : Grace

Signature line:Burnout kills founders before failure does.

Persona : Founder-advisor, calm and direct; survived multiple cycles.

Focus : Culture, resilience, long term — no miracle cures.

Don’t launch blind.

Lumor structures divergence: thirteen voices across three parallel pods work your brief, answer each other, then the engine consolidates an actionable report—so you can iterate before you launch a startup or lock in build.

  • Minimal latency

    A full round table without scheduling three weeks of availability.

  • Adversarial thinking

    Leadership, specialist experts (finance, product strategy, design, delivery), and a critical-compliance pod pull in different directions—like a real board, without the sugar coating.

  • Traceability

    Per-session report: transcript, prioritised synthesis, CEO arbitration, PM roadmap, and specialist angles (cashflow, product pivot, visual identity) exportable to PDF.

Decision pipeline

brief 3 parallel pods · 13 voices Crossfire CEO + PM + synthesis

Still 3 pods — 4 / 5 / 4 role split · structured report

Pricing

Credit packs

3 free credits when you sign up, then top up anytime — each credit is one full board session with a structured report.

Full FAQ·Credits = one full session each; you only pay for what you use.

Starter pack

Great to validate an idea or a pivot.

$9

  • 5 decisions (board sessions)
  • Full decision report (scores, debate, CEO, roadmap)
  • PDF export — one-time payment
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Pro pack

For several product cycles or pitch iterations.

$19

  • 15 decisions
  • Boardroom, Killer & VC Pitch modes
  • Session history on your account
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Business pack

Volume for teams and very active founders.

$49

  • 50 decisions
  • Same engine as the other packs
  • Pay per pack — no subscription
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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Short answers on validating ideas, how the engine works, and what Lumor does—and doesn’t do—when you want to launch a startup with clearer judgment.

How do I validate a startup idea before I launch?

Many ideas fail because they’re never really stress-tested: we stay in friendly circles or hear what we want to hear. To test an idea properly, you need structured pushback. Lumor simulates a board where AI experts argue over your brief—promises, economics, risks, and blind spots surface in a report you can act on, before the market decides for you.

How can I test a business idea without spending a lot of money?

Panels, agencies, and external roadmaps add up fast. Lumor is credit-based: buy packs, spend one credit per full session with a verdict and synthesis. It’s an affordable way to validate a project and iterate several times with no forced subscription, while keeping a written record of each stress test.

Can AI really analyse a project idea?

AI is not a lawyer, investor, or crystal ball. What it can do is analyse a project idea by role-playing conflicting stakeholders—tech, finance, go-to-market, compliance, critic. The point is to expose weak reasoning early. You still own final decisions and real-world validation.

How is this different from a business plan?

A business plan mostly freezes assumptions on slides. Lumor generates a simulated debate: voices answer each other, clash on purpose, then a CEO-style verdict and PM roadmap capture what survives scrutiny. You get a decision-oriented deliverable to iterate from—not only a document to present. It helps when you want to test an idea under tension, not just decorate it.

Does this replace experts (consultants, mentors)?

No. Lumor speeds up the stress-test phase and makes friction repeatable, but it doesn’t replace human coaching, legal review, or investor diligence. Personas like Grace explicitly bring culture, limits, and long term into the frame. Use the report as input for real mentors when you validate a project in the wild.

What kinds of projects can be analysed?

You can submit a SaaS, an app, a marketplace, a B2B service, a physical offer, or a fuzzy pivot. The engine works from the brief you describe—problem, audience, model, constraints. The goal stays the same: validate an idea from multiple angles—tech, market, cash, risk—before you commit heavy build or capital.

How long does it take to get a verdict?

One session runs from brief to structured report in minutes, without chaining weeks of meetings. You get scores, a debate synthesis, explicit decisions, and an execution thread. Tone shifts by mode (Boardroom, Killer, or VC Pitch), but the flow stays fast—built for testing an idea in a slot, not clearing a calendar.

Why do most ideas fail?

Often confirmation bias, no structured tension, and building before the hypothesis meets real skeptics. The market then punishes what we refused to see. A brutal board—simulated or real—forces clarity on promise, economics, and risk. Lumor mimics that dynamic so you can validate a project before failure gets expensive.