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How It Works

One Managed System. You Stay in Control.

You approve the sources Luminary may read. The readiness environment proposes evidence candidates. A person reviews every one, and your Readiness Profile shows where you stand across seven domains. Built for funded human-services nonprofits, typically $250K to $5M in budget.

The Operating Cycle

Connect. Discover. Review.
Publish. Prioritize. Maintain.

The managed readiness work moves through the same six stages every time, so you always know where things stand and who holds the decision.

Step 1

Connect

Connect the records you already keep. Luminary reads only the sources you approve, and you can pause, revoke, or transfer access at any time.

Step 2

Discover

The readiness environment inventories your records and proposes evidence candidates for each control. It proposes candidates. It never records a verdict.

Step 3

Review

A Luminary reviewer accepts, partially accepts, rejects, or asks for clarification on every candidate. Nothing changes your profile until a person decides.

Step 4

Publish

QA checks the decision, then your Readiness Profile publishes across seven domains, with evidence coverage, gaps, and confidence shown beside the result.

Step 5

Prioritize

Validated gaps become managed priorities, each with a clear owner, a next action, and bounded work inside the capacity your plan allows.

Step 6

Maintain

New evidence re-enters the review cycle without overwriting your published history. Every result is preserved.

The Readiness Profile

The Product Is a Profile, Not a Number.

Your Readiness Profile reads seven domains funders judge, with evidence coverage, confidence, gaps, and next roadmap actions shown beside any overall result. A composite score is only ever a secondary summary.

Governance and Organizational Readiness

Are your board, policies, and organizational records in order and current?

Financial and Award Readiness

Can you show sound financial controls and clean award management?

Evidence and Outcomes Readiness

Is participant and outcome data captured systematically, not in scattered notes?

Reporting and Award Management Readiness

Could you meet a reporting obligation on time, from records you already hold?

Funding and Proposal Readiness

Can you assemble a strong, evidence-backed proposal when an opportunity opens?

Contract and Procurement Readiness

Are your registrations, insurance, and past performance ready for a bid?

Capacity Systems and Data Readiness

Do your systems and data governance hold up to what funders expect?

The honesty rule: the free check on this site is self-reported with zero evidence coverage, and it takes about six to eight minutes. A published Readiness Profile is built only from client-approved sources and human-validated evidence. This review is preparation, not certification.

A Month With Luminary

What a Month Actually Looks Like.

A sample first month on the managed readiness model, so you can picture the rhythm before you commit to it.

Week one

You approve the sources Luminary may read, the environment inventories your records, and it proposes the first evidence candidates for each control.

Week two

A Luminary reviewer accepts, partially accepts, rejects, or asks for clarification on each candidate. Nothing becomes a verdict until a person decides.

Week three

QA checks the decisions, and your Readiness Profile publishes across seven domains with evidence coverage, gaps, and confidence shown beside the result.

Week four

Validated gaps become managed priorities with owners and next actions, and new evidence re-enters the cycle without overwriting what was published.

Luminary may prepare, organize, analyze, draft, and recommend within scope. The client reviews and approves external facts. The client submits, signs, and certifies through an authorized representative.

Your name stays on your work. Read the full boundary on our plans page.

Free readiness check

See Where Your Nonprofit
Stands in About Eight Minutes

Take the free Readiness Check. 28 questions across the seven domains, about six to eight minutes, and you see where you would start, self-reported, with the pressure areas named.

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