Features guide
Everything Lumen does for a doctorate.
Lumen organises your doctorate the way you actually work: the research itself, the four-year plan, an assistant that proposes and never decides – and, when you want it, a live window your supervisors can look through. Here is the whole thing, grouped the same way the app is.
It captures, you approve
AI intake turns an email, a note or a whiteboard photo into proposals. You approve each one – nothing writes itself.
Built for the supervisor relationship
Briefings, decision requests and a read-only mentor window are first-class. Mentors join with an access code – no account to create.
Judge it in one click
The demo is a real, fully loaded workspace. No signup, no »book a call«, no empty dashboard to imagine your way around.
Mobile, offline, yours
An installable PWA that works offline, hosted in the EU (Frankfurt), available in nine languages.
Your doctorate
The research itself – every pillar of the dissertation in one quiet surface.
- Overview
- Your whole PhD at a glance – progress, what needs attention and what comes next.
- Studies
- The core dissertation studies, each with its mentor-approval status.
- Literature
- Sources with AI summaries anchored to your dissertation, DOI-fetched citations, and EndNote export and matching.
- Deliverables
- Manuscripts and chapters, with their full revision history.
- Fieldwork
- Participants and field data – the empirical side, organised next to the writing.
Planning & time
The four-year arc and the next quiet hour, on the same desk.
- Timeline
- A Gantt view of milestones across your academic years.
- Courses
- Doctoral coursework – and how each piece fed the research.
- Calendar
- Calendar events sync in as reviewable proposals you approve, never silent edits.
- To-dos
- Tasks with due dates, reminders and links to the study they belong to.
- Hours
- Time tracking with streaks and a focus / Pomodoro timer for the work itself.
AI assistance
It captures, you approve. The AI proposes – it never decides.
- AI Intake
- Notes, photos and emails become reviewable structured proposals that you approve one by one.
- Mentor
- An assistant that proposes and never decides – nothing is written without your explicit yes.
- Knowledge
- A searchable knowledge base for your notes and correspondence.
- Transcripts
- Record or upload interviews, get AI transcription, and clean verbatim into a polished read.
- Insights
- AI-extracted, actionable insights pulled straight from your transcripts.
- Codes
- Qualitative coding with an LLM auto-coder, a code matrix and export.
Your supervisor relationship
Built around the relationship that most predicts who finishes – cheap to maintain, zero onboarding for mentors.
- Decisions
- Formal approval requests sent to your supervisors, with a clear verdict trail.
- Mentor briefings
- Weekly updates auto-drafted in your own writing voice, deep-linking mentors to the exact spot.
- Meetings
- Your mentor proposes a time, you confirm it – no scheduling tug-of-war.
Across everything
The quiet guarantees that hold under every feature above.
Installable PWA
A real app that launches instantly from your phone's home screen.
Offline reading + task ticking
Read everything and tick tasks with no signal – changes sync when you're back.
EU (Frankfurt) hosting
Your research lives in the EU, close to home.
Workspace isolation
Each workspace is isolated – your data never mingles with anyone else's.
No model training on your data
Your research is never used to train anyone's models.
Nine languages
Landing and app chrome localised across nine languages.
Start with the free demo
The demo is a real, fully loaded workspace – no account, nothing to install. Click around the actual product, then see how little it costs.