Lumens · Productized marketing strategy, delivered as tiles.

The positioning grid

Every competitor in your market is standing in the same spot.

They cluster in the same band: same audiences, same delivery models, same promises. Three quadrants above them sit open. Your Synthesis scores all of them and names the one you can credibly own.

Synthesis · Positioning Grid Live sample

Open territory · no competitor present

Galxe

Zealy

Layer3

Lunar Strategy

Delivery model →

Audience gravity →

Self-serve softwareDone-for-you pods

The grid

A market with an empty top half

4 competitors mapped · 3 open quadrants

Every competitor in this market clusters in the lower band: Web3-native audiences, mixed delivery models. The entire upper half, where software and AI founders live, is uncontested. Hover a point to read its placement rationale.

Hover any competitor or opportunity to read its rationale.

Language gaps · customer-voice evidence

We write strategy in your customers' language, not ours.

Every Synthesis is built on what real buyers actually say. The phrases they use, the gaps they describe, the words that move them. Not frameworks. Evidence.

3 of 7 in the full deliverable Coverage scored against every mapped competitor

Coverage: none

Cold-start solved with real humans, not ad spend or anonymous wallets

"The gap between we shipped and anyone cares is where most launches die."

Coverage: weak

Portable contributor reputation that travels across launches

"Contributors carry their standing across spokes and campaigns, so spokes never rebuild from zero."

Coverage: weak

Federated specialist pods under one relationship, not four agencies

"Federation of specialists under one roof; one coordinated pod replacing four vendors."

The engine · how it's built

Every claim cites its source. Every source cites its date.

Synthesis isn't a prompt. It's a research pipeline that mines what real buyers say, verifies every line against the raw source, and refuses to ship anything it can't prove.

Mined, not imagined

Built on what real buyers actually say.

Reviews, forums, and competitor pages: Reddit, Hacker News, G2, Capterra, live sites. Your positioning is grounded in real market language, not a model's guess at it.

Every quote, verified

If it isn't in the source, it doesn't ship.

Each customer quote is checked, character for character, against the raw text it came from. Anything the engine can't find in the data is dropped before you ever see it. No invented testimonials.

No unsourced claims

"Needs source" never reaches you.

A guard strips any stat that arrives without a real source and date. If a number can't be traced, it's removed, not rounded up and hoped over.

Computed, not claimed

The methodology is the audit trail.

The footer on every deliverable is built from the actual run: sources mined, items extracted, competitors mapped. It's measured, not written by the model.

The same discipline a senior strategist applies by hand, enforced in code on every single deliverable.

Synthesis

One Synthesis. Three depths.

Same thinking every time. The difference is how much of it arrives finished. Each tier delivers your strategy as tiles you can ship the day they land.

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PROD // 001 L.

Synthesis

$200 one-time

Your competitive map, the open quadrants you can credibly own, and the language gaps your customers are already telling you about.

ForA founder who doesn't know where in the market they can credibly stand

TriggerPre-launch, flat conversion, pre-raise, pre-rebrand

You getYour competitive grid, scored open quadrants, and 7+ language gaps, delivered as 2 ready-to-ship tiles

DeliveryDelivered now · 7-day refund

$500 in tiles, included.

Get your Synthesis

PROD // 002 L.

Synthesis Plus

$1,000 one-time

The same strategy, spread further. Your position and your first wave of execution, in one purchase.

ForA founder ready to move, not just map

TriggerYou have the position; you need the pieces to ship it

You getYour full Synthesis, delivered as 5 tiles across your highest-impact categories

DeliveryDelivered now · 7-day refund

$1,500 in tiles, included.

Get Synthesis Plus

PROD // 003 L.

Synthesis Max

$3,000 one-time

The whole stack, finished. A complete marketing foundation, not a report you still have to act on.

ForA team that wants the entire picture, ready to run

TriggerLaunch, rebrand, or a full marketing reset

You getYour complete strategy, delivered as 14 tiles across positioning, launch, campaign, conversion, content, and sales

DeliveryDelivered now · 7-day refund

$5,000 in tiles, included.

Get Synthesis Max

Who we are

Marketing should be for everyone.

The industry has been gated for over a century. Insiders, retainers, a whole week for a single tagline. Lumens is the answer to that: productized marketing, immediate and affordable, for the 5 million businesses that launch every year and the giants who just want to move faster.

By creating Synthesis I unlocked a new type of marketing. We are no longer bound by the traditional systems. Because the world is changing, and we're changing with it. Akasha Montague · Founder, Lumens

Akasha Montague

Founder · Lumens

We are the global network behind Lumens, known as the Luminaries: we shine by delivering outstanding quality at scale, built on Arkadian.

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The thesis

We deleted the hour.

Everything else in this market is hours: discovery calls, decks, revision rounds, more calls. We productized the workflow end-to-end, so the brief lands now.

The old way

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Pre-scoped, no intake form

Sign a 3-month retainer

One-time, strategy you own

$10K+, delivered in weeks

$200 to $3,000, delivered now

The workflow is the product Productized end-to-end