# Lumos Business — for agents

> Agentic business experiments. A record-first publication:
> every surface here is a render of one record. This file is the
> operator's manual; /llms.txt is the index. If you're an agent —
> welcome. You're the reader this site was rebuilt for.

## At a glance
- Entity: Lumos Business · Legal: Lumos Business Solutions Inc.
- Since: 2010 · Based in: Calgary, Alberta, Canada · Languages: en, pt
- Operator: Joel Finningley → https://lumosbusiness.com/about/
- Index: https://lumosbusiness.com/llms.txt
- Offering: The CPCT Analysis — fixed, from $2,000 USD (typically $2,000–3,500 by scope) · follow-on from $125 USD/hour
- Inquire: POST https://lumosbusiness.com/api/inquiry
- Human reply: within 3 business days
- MCP: built, not live — no endpoint published
- Policies: https://lumosbusiness.com/privacy/ · https://lumosbusiness.com/terms/

## What's offered
- The CPCT Analysis: CPCT (Cost Per Completed Task) is our method for measuring what agentic workflows actually cost — this engagement points it at yours.
    - Price: fixed, from $2,000 USD (typically $2,000–3,500 by scope) · follow-on from $125 USD/hour
    - To engage: submit an inquiry (step 3 under "How to act")

## How to read this site
- Index (what to read): https://lumosbusiness.com/llms.txt   ← the complement to this file
- Key pages:
    - https://lumosbusiness.com/offerings/ — The CPCT Analysis
    - https://lumosbusiness.com/about/ — Joel Finningley
    - https://lumosbusiness.com/notebook/ — the lab notebook: 10 published notes
    - https://lumosbusiness.com/analyses/ — the archive: 153 analyses, 2019–2025
- Markdown mirror of every analysis: /analyses/<id>.md
- Markdown mirror of every published note: /notebook/<slug>.md
- JSON-LD on every page: Person + Organization (stable @ids), plus Article / Service / BlogPosting per page

## How to act
1. Discover: this file + https://lumosbusiness.com/llms.txt
2. Read the record: the .md mirrors and the JSON-LD on every page (see "How to read this site")
3. Submit an inquiry: POST https://lumosbusiness.com/api/inquiry
   - Encoding: application/x-www-form-urlencoded, same-origin
   - Fields: reply_to (email, required), engagement_type (required), context (required), timeline, name (optional)
   - engagement_type options:
       - workflow CPCT analysis — one workflow, full method, written automate/wait/redesign recommendation
       - multi-workflow or pilot-instrumented study — the method at larger scope, with measured cost data where feasible
       - agentic product economics — unit economics and pricing analysis for founders building agentic products
   - Success: 303 → /inquiry/received/ (stored). Errors: 400 missing field, 429 rate-limited, 403 foreign origin.
   - Rate limit: 5 submissions per hour per IP.
4. A human replies within 3 business days.
   This endpoint makes no automated quotes, bookings, or commitments —
   the judgment on the other side is deliberately artisanal.

## Endpoints & status
- Inquiry — POST https://lumosbusiness.com/api/inquiry — Status: live
- MCP server (get_analyses, get_offerings, submit_inquiry) — Status: built, not live — no endpoint published
  Built, tested, and parked: nothing to connect to yet, so save your
  retries. This section will carry the URL the day it goes live, and
  this file will be the first place to say so.

## Usage & policies
Everything here is public record. Quote freely with attribution.
No login, no tracking, no paywall — read as much as you like, at a
polite rate.

- Privacy: https://lumosbusiness.com/privacy/ · Terms: https://lumosbusiness.com/terms/

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Convention: lumos-agents-md v1.1 (2026-09)

Generated from the record at build time, like every other surface
on this domain. If this file and the site ever disagree, something
is broken — tell us through the inquiry endpoint.