Foundation Nova Diem's flagship work
Lux
Lux helps people see their own strengths and patterns clearly, in language built for reflection and conversation rather than judgement. Behind that plain-language report sits one of the most disciplined scoring engines in the assessment space: versioned, tested and traceable from source evidence to the words on the page.
What Lux is
A strengths-first assessment, built to be trusted
Lux is Foundation Nova Diem's flagship assessment. It gives people a clear, human account of how they think, relate, respond and grow, and it gives the professionals who support them a shared, evidence-backed reference point for that conversation. Lux begins with strengths and patterns, not categories, and it is written to be read and understood by the person it is about.
What sets Lux apart is not one clever question or one flashy score. It is the standard applied to the whole system. Every scoring pathway is versioned, so a result can always be traced back to exactly how it was produced. Every computational output is checked against fixed reference values before it ever reaches a report. That standard of care is why we are proud to put Lux forward as our flagship work.
See how organisations partner with usThe evidence behind it
Rigour you can actually inspect
Lux's core measurement runs on a 19-layer scoring engine spanning 301 fields, built so that every step from raw response to finished report can be checked, reproduced and versioned. That is not a hidden implementation detail. It is the proof point behind everything Lux tells you.
The full ten-item Big Five item banks that anchor Lux's core measurement carry documented internal consistency of α .800 to .898, established across a source sample of 603,322 responses.
That figure is bank-level reliability evidence, and we treat it exactly as what it is: a strong, well-established foundation for the measurement Lux is built on, not a finished claim about every possible use of the assessment. As Lux reaches more people through community cohorts, that foundation grows. We designed the engine to make new evidence a way of strengthening Lux's claims over time, never a way of quietly rewriting the story of how earlier results were produced.
Response to report, one layer at a time
19
Layer scoring engine
Every step from raw response to finished report is versioned and checked.
301
Fields in the engine
Granular enough that any single step can be tested and traced on its own.
α .800–.898
Reliability, core item banks
Documented internal consistency across the full ten-item Big Five banks.
603,322
Source sample size
The response set the reliability figures above are established from.
Why it matters
We don't just identify potential, we unlock it
A score on its own is just a number. Lux is built to turn that number into something a person can actually use: language for a strength they hadn't named, a pattern that explains why a certain kind of work energises them, a starting point for a better conversation with a clinician, a mentor or a manager. That is the difference between identifying potential and unlocking it, and it is why Foundation Nova Diem built Lux the way we did.
Lux is a strengths-first descriptive assessment. It is not used for diagnosis or personnel selection, and we designed it that way deliberately: it exists to help people understand themselves, not to sort them.
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