Your Research Dashboard
Your doctorate, in one calm place.
Milestones, studies, literature, fieldwork and mentor communication – organised by an assistant that proposes and never decides. Built by a PhD candidate who needed it to exist.
The demo is a fictional researcher's workspace – look around freely, nothing you do is saved.
Capture anything with AI Intake
Paste meeting notes, a syllabus, a whiteboard photo – Lumen proposes tasks, dates, contacts and milestones, and you approve each one. Nothing writes itself without your say.
Briefings that write themselves
A progress update drafted from your actual data, polished in your own writing voice, with links that land your mentors on the exact spot in the dashboard.
A literature library with a brain
Searchable sources with AI summaries anchored to YOUR dissertation, DOI-fetched citations, rigorous LLM coding with a validity harness, and a naming convention that keeps files findable for years.
A window your mentors will use
Read-only mentor access with comments and decision requests. The supervisor relationship is among the strongest predictors of finishing – Lumen makes it cheap to maintain.
Works on the train
A real installable app: instant launch, offline reading, tick tasks and add notes with no signal – everything syncs when you're back.
Fieldwork, observed
Contacts pipeline, interview dyads and event observations with photos – the empirical side of the doctorate, organised next to the writing.
Why not a Notion template, a Trello board or a generic tracker?
It reads your inbox so you don't re-type it
Supervisor emails and calendar events flow in automatically and become reviewable proposals. Trackers wait for you to fill them in – Lumen meets the work where it already happens.
Judge it in one click
The demo is a real, fully loaded workspace. No signup, no »book a call«, no empty dashboard you have to imagine your way around.
Built around the supervisor relationship
Mentor briefings, decision requests and a read-only mentor view are first-class features – not a sharing permission bolted onto a to-do app.
Calm by design
No engagement bait, no clutter. One quiet surface for a four-year project – installable on your phone, working offline, in nine languages.
Detailed comparisons: vs a Notion template · vs Trello · vs PhD trackers
Everything it does, in one page
Twenty-odd features, grouped the same way the app is – so you can see the whole shape of it before you decide whether to open the demo.
Read the full guideYour doctorate
Overview · Studies · Literature · Deliverables · Fieldwork
Planning & time
Timeline · Courses · Calendar · To-dos · Hours
AI assistance
Intake · Mentor · Knowledge · Transcripts · Insights · Codes
Supervisors
Decisions · Briefings · Meetings
Free to judge. €19 a month if it earns a place in your week.
No card to see it, no contract to start, and a ceiling you control. Heavy AI passes run on optional tokens that cost cents.
Free
€0 forever
Demo and a real trial workspace
- The full demo, no account
- A trial workspace, no card
- AI intake: 2 captures a day
Premium
€19 / month
Self-serve, cancel any time
- Unlimited AI intake
- Transcripts and premium models
- 10 GB storage
Running a doctoral programme?
Doctorates rarely fail loudly – they go quiet, and the quiet is only obvious a year late. When the work lives somewhere structured, a stall becomes visible while it is still cheap to fix, and supervision gets cheaper to give. Candidates keep their workspaces; the programme sees progress, never anyone's unfinished drafts.
Lumen for doctoral programmesBringing a whole cohort?
Lumen is working with its first doctoral programmes ahead of general launch. Cohort arrangements are put together per programme rather than sold off a price list – tell us the cohort and we will come back with something concrete.
Lumen for doctoral programmesWhy the mentor window matters: a meta-synthesis of 118 studies places the supervisor relationship at the centre of who finishes a doctorate (Bair & Haworth 2004), and students who interact with supervisors more frequently report better progress (Ives & Rowley 2005). Lumen turns that relationship into a live surface instead of a status-update chore.
Questions, answered
Can I try it before committing?
Yes – the live demo is open to everyone, no account needed. It's a fictional researcher's fully loaded workspace, so you see the real product, not screenshots.
How does my supervisor join?
Mentors get a personal access code – no signup form, no password to invent. They see a read-only view with comments and decision requests.
Does the AI change my data on its own?
Never. Every AI suggestion – from an email, a note or a photo – is a proposal you approve, edit or dismiss. Nothing is written without your explicit yes.
Where does my data live?
In the EU (Frankfurt), isolated per workspace. Your research is never used to train anyone's models.
Does it work offline?
Yes. Lumen installs as a real app, opens instantly and lets you read everything and tick tasks with no signal – changes sync when you're back online.
Request access
Lumen is in a guided rollout with PhD candidates and their supervisors. Leave your email and we'll set you up personally.