01 · Invited
Someone invites you to take part
An organisation or professional supporting you sends an invitation to complete Lux, Foundation Nova Diem's strengths-first assessment.
How Lux works
From invitation to insight.
Lux is Foundation Nova Diem's strengths-first assessment. It's built to help people understand strengths, patterns and potential in language suited to reflection, not judgement. Here's what actually happens, from the invitation to the report you receive.
Who Lux is for
A supported strengths-first experience.
Lux is currently introduced through an organisation or professional supporting the participant. It is designed for reflection and better conversations, not for diagnosis, prediction or deciding whether someone should be selected for a role.
How access works
Invitation comes before assessment.
The inviting organisation agrees the purpose, support and reporting model with Foundation Nova Diem. Participants then receive information about Lux and choose whether to take part through an informed-consent process.
Your Lux journey.
02 · Consent
You decide, on your own terms
Before anything happens, you're asked to give informed consent: what Lux involves, who sees your results, and that taking part is your choice.
03 · Complete Lux
You work through Lux at your own pace
Lux asks about how you think, relate, respond and grow. Lumen, the secure platform behind it, guides you through it and keeps your responses safe.
04 · Receive your report
You get insight written for you
You receive a plain-language report about your own strengths and patterns, written for reflection and conversation, not judgement.
What you receive
Insight written for the person reading it
Participants receive a carefully curated subset of their profile, written to support reflection and growth.
Authorised clinicians receive deeper technical decision support to use alongside participant history, context and independent professional judgement.
Those two reports are deliberately different documents. Access to professional reporting is governed by the agreed consent and reporting model, and it is never a diagnosis or a substitute for that clinician's own professional judgement.
Illustrative report example
Participant view
Your strengths and patterns
Participants receive a carefully curated subset of their profile, written to support reflection and growth.
Structure only — no participant data or scores.
Illustrative report example
Authorised professional view
Professional context
Authorised clinicians receive deeper technical decision support to use alongside participant history, context and independent professional judgement.
Structure only — no clinical interpretation or scores.
Honest about where the evidence stands
We publish what the evidence currently supports
Lux is descriptive, not diagnostic, predictive or a personnel-selection instrument. It's moving through an active, staged evidence-development programme, and we're careful to only claim what current evidence actually supports.
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What to know before taking part.
Can I sign up directly?
Not through this public website. Lux is currently accessed through a participating organisation or professional. Organisations can contact us to discuss a suitable pilot.
Is taking part voluntary?
Yes. The process begins with information about the proposed use and informed consent. Participation should be a genuine choice.
Who can see my results?
The agreed consent and reporting model sets out who receives each report. Participants receive a report written for them; deeper professional reporting is limited to authorised clinicians and is used alongside their own judgement. Before taking part, you can ask the inviting organisation what reporting applies and who will receive it. You can also ask Foundation Nova Diem a reporting question.
How long does Lux take and what support is available?
Timing and support can depend on the programme and participant context. The inviting organisation should explain the expected commitment, access arrangements and available support before consent.
Is Lux a diagnosis or clinical decision?
No. Lux is descriptive, not diagnostic or predictive, and it is not a substitute for independent professional judgement.
For clinicians, educators and partners: the technical detail
Lux produces 301 defined participant-level fields across 19 layers. These are computed fields, not 301 questions or 301 separately validated constructs.
Lumen is the secure platform that administers Lux: it connects a participant's invitation with consent, assessment, governed scoring, and the right report for the right audience. This is a description of Lumen's intended role, not a claim about any particular deployment, pilot, data location, retention period or live operating environment.
The active programme combines ongoing testing of versioned scoring and committed fixtures with staged Lux-specific empirical evaluation. Technical checks make the scoring pathway more inspectable; they do not by themselves establish psychological reliability or validity.
Put strengths-first work into practice
Choose the next conversation.
Explore a responsible Lux pilot with your organisation, or support the evidence-led work behind it.