Lumina · Innovation-as-a-Service

The world’s best innovation engine, working for you.

Innovation isn’t luck. It’s a method. Now it’s yours.

Built on two foundations: proven, peer-reviewed innovation frameworks and the reverse-engineered human ideation process — fused into 14 specialized agents, so anyone can innovate like the experts, in minutes.

No credit card · 3 free sessions · Cancel anytime

How it works · three simple steps

Step 1

Describe your challenge

In plain language.

Step 2

Lumina Innovation Engine

It can Brainstorm & more

Step 3

Get scored, ranked ideas

Ready to act on.

One engine · many ways to think

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Grounded in peer-reviewed research

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Everyone hits the wall

A better idea would change everything. You just don’t have one yet.

Innovation isn’t only for researchers and R&D labs. We all face moments where the next idea is the thing standing between us and progress.

The founder

“What should we actually build next?”

The student

“I need a thesis topic that’s genuinely new.”

The marketer

“Every campaign idea feels recycled.”

The engineer

“This trade-off seems impossible to solve.”

This is the time you need ideas

Stuck in a problemA new startScarce resourcesFacing a challengeSurviving a competitive marketGrowing your businessDe-complexing a system

The world is not optimal. Let’s change it.

Lumina brings innovation into everyday life — faster, simpler and always within reach. Add an innovation layer to your day and ideate anywhere, in one click.

One platform, many roles

What Lumina becomes for you

Idea Pharmacist

Diagnoses your challenge through multiple proven methods, then dispenses a ranked set of tailored prescriptions you can act on.

Innovation Incubator

Grows a raw thought into a validated, ready-to-build concept — nurtured through debate, critique and refinement.

Idea Farm

A renewable harvest of fresh ideas. Come back whenever you need more — the field never runs dry.

The Lumina standard

Method, not chance. Rigor in every idea.

What separates a fleeting thought from a real breakthrough is the process behind it. Every Lumina session runs a complete, proven framework — the way the world’s best innovators actually work.

Proven frameworks

Each agent runs a complete, peer-reviewed method end-to-end — never a single guess.

Experts that debate

Multiple specialist personas propose, challenge and refine — diversity by design.

Scored & ranked

Every idea is evaluated and ordered, so the strongest rises to the top.

Stress-tested

Ideas are pressure-tested before they reach you — outcomes you can act on with confidence.

Every Lumina agent is the working embodiment of a peer-reviewed innovation method. That curation is the value you can’t get anywhere else.

How it works

From blank page to breakthrough in three steps

From A to Z — full ideation process automation. You bring the challenge; Lumina runs the entire method.

01

Describe your challenge

In plain language — a churn problem, a thesis hunt, a product gap, a story premise.

02

Apply a proven method

Pick a method-driven agent. It runs the full framework — exploring, debating, critiquing.

03

Get scored, ranked ideas

Receive a shortlist of stress-tested ideas with scores and reasoning — ready to act on.

The method library

A curated arsenal of proven innovation methods

Not one generic bot — 14 specialists, each operationalising a different peer-reviewed framework, from TRIZ engineering to CHI-published brainwriting.

01

Create

Based onClassic brainstorming

Innovation Brainstormer

6-phase creative pipeline

Explore, abstract, reframe, ideate, stress-test and rank — breakthrough ideas from a blank page.

Inspired byShaer et al. · CHI 2024

Brainwriting Engine

AI-Augmented Brainwriting

Silent parallel ideation that eliminates groupthink, then scores and tiers every idea.

Inspired byLu et al. · COLM 2024

Creative Roundtable

Role-Play Discussion

Distinct AI personas debate your challenge and synthesise diverse, original directions.

ImplementsScideator · CHI 2025

Facet Recombination

Scientific Facet Swap

Borrow mechanisms from 10+ distant fields to engineer genuinely cross-domain ideas.

Inspired byFilmAgent · 2025

LOOM Story Engine

Multi-Agent Writers’ Room

Architect, writer, editor and character voices collaborate into a polished story.

02

Build

Based onAltshuller TRIZ

TRIZ Innovation

TRIZ · 40 Inventive Principles

Resolve engineering contradictions with the contradiction matrix used by elite R&D.

Based onDesign Thinking

Designer Ideation

Design Thinking + analogy

8-step concept generation drawing analogies from biomimicry, architecture and culture.

Inspired byCreative multi-agent discussion

Business Idea Generator

Multi-Expert Discussion

Validated business ideas, market sizing and a Business Model Canvas — debated by 5 experts.

Inspired byAgent Ideate · ACL 2025

Patent-to-Product

Agentic Idea Generation

Turn patents and technology into ranked, market-fit product concepts with mini pitch decks.

03

Research

ImplementsChain-of-Ideas · Li et al., 2024

Lineage

Paper-Lineage Ideation

Map a field’s lineage and generate novel, experiment-ready research directions.

ImplementsPersonaFlow · Liu et al., DIS 2025

Conflux

Expert-Persona Mind Map

Simulated expert personas branch and cross-critique into hybrid research directions.

Inspired byThe AI Scientist · Sakana AI, 2024

Helix

End-to-End Discovery

A multi-stage scientific workflow from idea to a peer-reviewed, publication-ready draft.

ImplementsVirSci · Su et al., ACL 2025

Conclave

Virtual Scientist Team

A simulated five-scientist lab generates, ranks and reviews novel scientific ideas.

04

Refine

Based onHegelian dialectics

CRUCIBLE Dialectic

Hegelian Dialectics

Thesis → antithesis → synthesis cycles that pressure-test and strengthen any idea.

Every method is grounded in published research — CHI, ACL, COLM, DIS, NeurIPS and the TRIZ canon — not invented for a demo.

Lumina independently re-implements these published methods in its own software. Cited works credit their original authors and imply no affiliation or endorsement.

Who it’s for

One platform, every kind of breakthrough

Founders & intrapreneurs

Validated business ideas, market sizing and a model canvas — before you write a line of code.

Business · Patent-to-Product · Brainstormer

Researchers & students

Novel, experiment-ready thesis directions grounded in real paper lineage.

Lineage · Conflux · Helix

Designers & creatives

Cross-domain concepts and polished stories from structured, repeatable ideation.

Designer · Facet · LOOM

Engineers & product

Resolve impossible trade-offs with the contradiction matrix elite R&D teams rely on.

TRIZ · CRUCIBLE · Facet

Marketers & strategists

Escape recycled campaigns with parallel, bias-free idea generation that ranks the winners.

Brainwriting · Roundtable · Brainstormer

Teams & workshops

Run a full innovation session in minutes — no facilitator to book, no groupthink, no scheduling.

Brainwriting · Conclave · CRUCIBLE

What you actually receive

Scored, ranked, ready to act on

Not a wall of text — a shortlist of stress-tested ideas with reasoning and scores.

“How can my small neighbourhood bakery grow without a bigger marketing budget?”
#1

Subscription “bread bonds”

92/100

Pre-sell a month of daily loaves at a small discount — locking in revenue and habit.

#2

Surplus-hour flash drops

88/100

Pheromone-style demand signalling: end-of-day SMS deals that compound regular visits.

#3

Local-business bundle swap

81/100

Cross-promote with the café next door — shared customers, zero ad spend.

Illustrative output. Your real session includes full reasoning, novelty checks and an action plan.

The opportunity

The methodology layer on top of AI

Models are commoditising. The durable value moves to whoever turns them into trusted outcomes. Lumina owns the innovation-methods layer.

An AI-powered innovation orchestration platform — institutional-grade, methodology-driven ideation for every team.

Everyone

Total market — every knowledge worker needs better ideas

Curation

The moat — 14 peer-reviewed methods, not a thin GPT wrapper

Software margins

Expert-grade outcomes delivered at the economics of software

IaaS

A new category — Innovation-as-a-Service, recurring by design

Pricing

Start free. Upgrade when the ideas keep coming.

Every plan unlocks complete, method-driven sessions — not single prompts. One innovation session would cost thousands with a consultant.

Free

Try the engine
$0to start

Run real, method-driven sessions and feel the difference firsthand.

  • 3 full innovation sessions
  • Access to foundational methods
  • Scored & ranked results
  • No credit card required

Premium

Most popular
$11.99per month

For people who innovate regularly and want every method on tap.

  • All 14 proven innovation methods
  • Monthly session pool that refreshes
  • Extra capacity when inspiration strikes
  • Full reasoning, scoring & exports
  • Priority support
  • Early access to new methods

Flex

Pay once
$19.99one-time

Pay once and innovate whenever — credits that never expire.

  • All 14 proven innovation methods
  • A generous pool of sessions
  • Credits never expire
  • No subscription, no lock-in
  • Top up anytime

Building a product or running team workshops? Explore Platform & API access to embed the methods into your own tools.

Your next breakthrough is one method away

Start with 3 free sessions. No credit card required. Put the world’s best innovation methods to work today.

14 proven methods · scored & ranked output · cancel anytime