Based in St. LouisFDEs for business
lumic’s Forward Deployed Engineers have finance backgrounds. They put AI to work inside the systems and routines you already run, from vendor bills to month-end, keep it working, and a person on your team approves what matters. lumic is St. Louis AI help for the back office: Forward Deployed Engineers on site, one job at a time. St. Louis first; the team travels for the right fit.
See it running
Here an agent reads a vendor bill, matches it to the purchase order, and flags a price difference before anyone pays. A person approves it, and it lands in the ERP ready to post. Then the dashboards show what the agents did, on the same live data.
Each film opens on its own, with narration.
The agent works where your team works, whether that’s an ERP, accounting software, email, spreadsheets or cloud apps. It reads and enters the same records a person would. No new system to learn, and no new software seats.
Where the agent works
What you get
If your team does it on a screen, an agent can usually learn it. It reads what it needs, and every entry it makes waits for a person’s approval.
Portfolio
Agents and dashboards lumic built run every day inside operating companies, on entirely different systems, live and measured. lumic’s leaders run finance themselves, so they use what they build.
Every vendor bill was typed in twice, into two systems, about 30 a day. The agent went live about six weeks after the on-site day. It reads each bill from email, matches it to the purchase order, and enters it in both systems once the clerk approves.
At a multi-company manufacturer and distributor, about 13 agent roles do daily work: AP and cash receipts entered into the ERP, payroll and month-end entries, purchase orders, and collections. A person approves each entry.
From live aging, the agent drafts the collections email and the statement for each past-due customer. A person reviews each one and sends it. A morning of work in the ERP and the inbox, now ready when the day starts.
Systems lumic works with
If your team runs it, lumic can work with it.
Client names stay private.
Services
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.
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.
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.
How lumic works
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.
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.
lumic watches it, tests it, fixes it, and upgrades it, for a monthly fee. You run the business.
On-site work $1,500/day, credited toward phase one.
Managed agents from $1,000/month.
Monthly pricing covers running and supporting your agents. The build is a separate, one-time cost, scoped after the free consultation.
Final pricing depends on your workflow and systems. These figures are starting points, not quotes.
Why lumic
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.
The agent enters the work in your systems, the same records a clerk would key. A person approves it, and nobody retypes it.
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.
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.
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.
lumic gives each agent access to the screens and records its job needs, and nothing more. Every action it takes is logged.
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.
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 |
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.
A person on your team. The agent makes the entry, and a person checks it and approves it before anything posts. The final post stays in your hands.
Weeks, not quarters. A recent managed AP agent went live about six weeks after the on-site day; in its first week, 64 of 67 bills went through the agent.
Leadership
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.
Free checklist
Ten month-end mistakes in AP, billing, payroll and the close, on one page. Enter an email and the checklist downloads right away.
One email field. No spam, no trackers.
Every engagement is led by a senior FDE, on site.