About Lume

Procurement, finally, in plain English.

We built Lume because we kept watching skilled people spend their days chasing vendor emails instead of doing the strategic work they were hired for.

Our story

Most small and mid-sized organisations don't run on million-pound ERPs. They run on email. Quotes are gathered in the inbox, vendors are negotiated with on long threads, and approvals come back as a one-line reply.

That's not a problem to solve by forcing teams into yet another portal. It's a problem to solve by giving them a colleague — one that happens to be digital, never sleeps, and is genuinely happy to send the fourth follow-up email.

Lume reads the request, talks to the suppliers, weaves the messy threads into a single clean summary, and hands the final decision back to a human. We do the legwork. You stay in your inbox. Your auditors get a clean trail. Everyone gets their afternoon back.

We're a small team based in the UK, building for the procurement and operations people we used to be.

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Portals to log into. Lume lives where you already work — in your inbox.
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Email address to CC. That's the entire onboarding.
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Quotes gathered automatically per request, ready for sign-off.
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Designed and operated in the United Kingdom. GDPR-aware by default.
How we work

Three things we won't compromise on.

The principles that shape every decision — from the way we write copy to the way we handle a vendor follow-up.

Frictionless by default

If using Lume feels harder than your current process, we've already failed. Every interaction should subtract effort, never add it.

Auditable, always

Whether the pressure is donor reporting, board oversight, or just internal policy, every action Lume takes is traceable, transparent, and defensible.

Trust as the foundation

We treat your email, your vendor relationships, and your data the way you would: carefully, securely, and never as a product to be resold.

Want to see Lume in action?

Whether you're evaluating tools for your team or just curious how an inbox-native assistant handles real procurement workflows, we'd love to show you.

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