Why we built Lumi

A connected team is a more powerful team.

Television is made by freelance teams who come together fast and have to run as one, in places that change by the hour. We've run those teams. We know what they can do when everyone works from the same information, and what it costs when they don't.

Where it started

A wall that kept growing.

As an executive producer on a major reality show, Karen Dewey watched a freelance team, brought together just weeks before, try to keep up with a production that changed by the hour. Every change meant another Post-it note on the wall, another spreadsheet, another message. The same update was written again and again, and nobody could be sure which version was the latest.

She and her brother Neil, an information and systems architect, set out to give that team one place they could all trust. Update it once, and everyone who needs it sees it, straight away.

"Which version of the callsheet are we on?"

Before Lumi

Another note on the wall for every change
The same update written and sent five times
Spreadsheets emailed and re-emailed
Decisions lost in WhatsApp threads

With Lumi

No more "Which version of the callsheet are we on?"
One real-time picture for the whole team
Update once, and everyone sees the change
New crew up to speed from their first day
Production Intelligence that builds with every shoot day

The founders

Decades in television. Decades in systems architecture. One platform.

Lumi exists because two people with very different expertise looked at the same problem. One had run the production office. The other knew how to design the intelligence underneath it.

Neil and Karen Dewey laughing together — Neil and Karen Dewey, co-founders. Brother and sister, systems architect and executive producer.

CEO & Co-founder

Karen Dewey

One of Australia's leading executive producers, with decades of experience running large teams on tight deadlines.

Karen has produced, created and supervised programs for Nine, Seven, Ten, the ABC and SBS. Her career spans news and current affairs, morning television, documentary, factual, entertainment and fast-turnaround reality. She spent long stints as Head of Reality and Factual at Nine Network Australia and at ITV Studios.

As executive producer of Keeping Australia Alive, made for the ABC and shown on ITV, she ran 100 cameras across Australia in a single 24-hour period. That's the scale of information Lumi was built to handle.

Head of Reality & FactualNine Network Australia · ITV Studios
Executive ProducerKeeping Australia Alive (ABC, ITV)
NetworksNine · Seven · Ten · ABC · SBS
SpecialismsShowrunning, casting, development, large-team leadership

COO, Head of Design & Co-founder

Neil Dewey

An information and systems architect with more than 35 years' experience designing how complex organisations capture, connect and use what they know.

Neil co-founded his first software company as its lead architect in 1997. Since then he has designed the structures that let information flow reliably between people, teams and systems, so it can be found, trusted and acted on.

At Lumi he designed the intelligence architecture: the connected model that links every person, day, scene and decision across a production. It's why information captured once can be used everywhere, and why AI in Lumi has real context to work with. Karen puts it simply: "He has the maths head, and I'm a nut for words."

35+ yearsInformation and systems architecture
Since 1997Software co-founder and lead architect
At LumiThe connected data model behind Production Intelligence
SpecialismsIntelligence architecture, data design, secure platforms

Our mission

Connect every team. Power every production.

Staff and freelance, on location and in the office: casting, story, crew, logistics, welfare and post each hold part of the picture. Lumi joins them up, so the whole team can see more, move faster and make better television together. That connected strength is Production Intelligence.

Cannes 2023Winner, Sustainability & Innovation, Content Innovation Awards

5 yearsWorking with ITV Studios Global Unscripted

150+Productions across Australia, the UK, the US, Canada and New Zealand

InnovationAus 2023Award for Excellence, Creative Tech and Software

Ready when you are

Put Production Intelligence to work on your next production.

Start with one team. Connect the rest as you grow. We'll help you plan the rollout.

Plan your first production, or request our security pack and case studies

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