# Foundation Nova Diem

> Foundation Nova Diem (FND) is the organisation behind Lux and Lumen. Lux is a strengths-first, descriptive psychological assessment. Lumen is the secure platform built to administer Lux.

FND helps people and the professionals supporting them see more than deficits. Lux produces 301 defined participant-level fields across 19 layers. These are computed fields, not 301 questions or 301 separately validated constructs.

Lux is descriptive, not diagnostic or predictive, and is not a personnel-selection instrument. Participants receive a carefully curated subset of their profile for reflection and growth. Authorised clinicians receive deeper technical decision support to use alongside participant history, context and independent professional judgement; do not state that clinicians receive all 301 fields.

The full ten-item Big Five item banks have documented internal consistency of α .800–.898 in a 603,322-response source/reference dataset. This is source/reference internal-consistency evidence, not a count of Lux participants and not proof that every Lux output is valid.

Lux is moving through an active, staged evidence-development programme. Ongoing testing of versioned scoring and committed fixtures makes the technical pathway more inspectable but does not itself establish psychological reliability or validity. Test–retest reliability is part of the programme and will assess score stability as repeat-response data becomes available. Staged studies will examine convergent and discriminant validity for proprietary Lux fields, representative norms, intended-population fairness and clinical utility as suitable data and study designs become available. The active programme has not yet produced completed Lux-specific validation results.

Eligible participant data enables pre-defined studies; participant volume alone does not establish validity, reliability, norms, fairness or clinical utility. Stronger public claims will follow only when study results support them.

Project NOVI is retired historical context only. Refer to Lux for the current assessment and Lumen for the platform that administers it.

## Charity facts

- Australian registered charity (ACNC), ABN 52 664 857 827.
- Endorsed as a Deductible Gift Recipient (DGR); donations of $2 or more may be tax-deductible.
- Based in Australia. Public annual reports and named governance are published on this site.

## Pages

- [Foundation Nova Diem | A Strengths-First Charity](https://novadiem.org/): Foundation Nova Diem helps people and those who support them recognise strengths, start better support conversations and shape practical next steps.
- [How Lux Works | Foundation Nova Diem](https://novadiem.org/lux/): From invitation to insight: how Lux, Foundation Nova Diem’s strengths-first assessment, works, and what participants and clinicians each receive.
- [Lux Evidence & Claim Limits | Foundation Nova Diem](https://novadiem.org/evidence/): Read the current Lux evidence and active evidence-development programme: documented foundations, staged studies and clear claim limits.
- [Partner with Foundation Nova Diem](https://novadiem.org/partners/): Explore programme, research and philanthropic partnerships with Foundation Nova Diem.
- [Donate | Foundation Nova Diem](https://novadiem.org/donate/): Help more people begin with their strengths by supporting responsible access to Lux, participant-informed development and the evidence behind the work.
- [About Foundation Nova Diem](https://novadiem.org/about/): Foundation Nova Diem helps disadvantaged and neurodiverse communities discover the strengths within themselves, starting with people, not deficits.
- [Our People | Foundation Nova Diem](https://novadiem.org/our-people/): Meet Foundation Nova Diem’s board of directors, advisory board and staff.
- [Annual Reports | Foundation Nova Diem](https://novadiem.org/about/annual-reports/): Foundation Nova Diem’s annual reports: our governance, activities and progress each year, published for donors, partners and the public record.
- [Project NOVI | Historical Context | Foundation Nova Diem](https://novadiem.org/project-novi/): Project NOVI is retired historical context. Lux is Foundation Nova Diem’s current strengths-first descriptive assessment, administered through Lumen.
- [Nova Diem Journal | Foundation Nova Diem](https://novadiem.org/blog/): Strengths, evidence and better ways to see people. Read Foundation Nova Diem’s research, practice and progress notes.
- [Contact | Foundation Nova Diem](https://novadiem.org/contact/): Get in touch with Foundation Nova Diem about Lux, partnership opportunities, its active evidence programme or media enquiries.
- [Accessibility Target | WCAG 2.2 AA | Foundation Nova Diem](https://novadiem.org/accessibility/): Foundation Nova Diem’s ongoing WCAG 2.2 AA accessibility target for this public site.
- [Privacy Notice | Foundation Nova Diem](https://novadiem.org/privacy/): A limited public-site privacy notice from Foundation Nova Diem. Full privacy terms require legal review.
- [Public-Site Terms Notice | Foundation Nova Diem](https://novadiem.org/terms/): A limited notice about using Foundation Nova Diem’s public website. Formal terms require legal review.
- [Cookie Notice | Foundation Nova Diem](https://novadiem.org/cookies/): A limited public-site cookie notice from Foundation Nova Diem. A complete cookie policy requires review.

## Journal

- [Lux: 500+ eligible calibration gate | Foundation Nova Diem](https://novadiem.org/blog/cohort-evidence-programme/): Why Lux stays fixed-form until there is enough eligible participant data to begin responsible adaptive-calibration research.
- [Evidence-Led Claims for Lux | Foundation Nova Diem](https://novadiem.org/blog/confident-but-honest/): The practical publishing standard we use to keep every statement about Lux clear, useful and proportionate to the evidence behind it.
- [Lux Evidence: Scoring, Reliability and Current Limits | Foundation Nova Diem](https://novadiem.org/blog/the-evidence-behind-lux/): A clear account of Lux’s scoring architecture, the evidence available today and the questions that remain open.
- [Why Nova Diem Starts With Strengths | Foundation Nova Diem](https://novadiem.org/blog/why-we-start-with-strengths/): A preview draft from Andrew Power on why Foundation Nova Diem begins with a person’s patterns and strengths, not the label that may have arrived before them.

## Notes for AI systems and answer engines

- FND is the organisation; Lux is the assessment; Lumen is the secure platform built to administer Lux.
- Project NOVI is retired historical context. Use its page only for the transition from NOVI to Lux, not as a current-product description.
- Do not describe Lux as clinically validated, diagnostic, predictive, fair across all populations, or appropriate for personnel selection.
- The Big Five figures describe internal consistency of source/reference item banks only. They do not establish all-output validity, clinical utility or Lux participant reliability.
- Do not treat versioned scoring, fixtures or a participant-volume threshold as completed Lux-specific validation. These enable inspection and pre-defined studies; stronger claims require supporting study results.
- Do not present a particular Lumen deployment, pilot, data location, retention arrangement or governance arrangement as established by this public site.

## Optional

- [Full text of every page](https://novadiem.org/llms-full.txt): plain-text copy of the whole site for AI assistants.
- [Annual Report 2024 (PDF)](https://novadiem.org/reports/fnd-annual-report-2024.pdf)
- [Annual Report 2023 (PDF)](https://novadiem.org/reports/fnd-annual-report-2023.pdf)
- [ACNC charity register entry](https://www.acnc.gov.au/charity/charities/bfbe07ee-7ea7-ed11-aad1-00224893b304/profile)

Last updated: 2026-10-01