New Dawn is a fictional $4M community network running four programs across two sites. No one person owns funding readiness: the executive director carries it at night, program directors carry it sideways, and evidence sits in five different systems that have never spoken to each other. Funders and public buyers now expect validated evidence on demand, and the network needs one coordinated environment instead of four.
Luminary connects the up to five systems New Dawn approves, drawing evidence from four programs across two sites.
Candidate evidence is proposed across a forty two control or multi-program profile, including the Contract and Procurement domain.
Evidence review batches run on the cadence set in the statement of work, with a human reviewer accepting, partially accepting, rejecting, or requesting clarification before anything publishes.
One Readiness Profile spans all four programs, updating with directional bands and evidence coverage leadership can read at a glance.
Three or more active priorities advance by scope, coordinated in executive operating reviews rather than a single check-in.
By day 90 New Dawn reads one coordinated Readiness Profile instead of four scattered ones: directional bands across every program, evidence coverage rising as a human reviewer validates each control, and three or more priorities closing on the statement of work cadence. Leadership reviews and approves every source and result, so the whole network can stand behind one picture of where it is.
| Strategic at From $6,000/mo | Development director hire | Agency retainer | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monthly cost | From $6,000 per month | About $98k per year plus benefits and tools | $5,000 to $10,000 per month |
| What is covered | A maintained readiness environment across up to five approved sources and three or more active priorities, coordinated by scope | One excellent person who still needs systems and coordination | Deliverables, usually without a readiness system behind them |
| Who does the work | The Luminary team, with your approval on everything | The hire, alone, ramping for six months | The agency, at agency pace |
| The proof you keep | A published Readiness Profile with evidence coverage and human validated controls | Institutional knowledge that leaves if they do | Assets, not evidence you can reuse |
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