IT isn’t just about delivery anymore.
Across industries and sectors, organisations of all sizes are grappling with the same challenge: technology has become critical to how they operate, but the frameworks for governing it well have not kept pace. Boards are asking harder questions. Regulators are raising expectations. Cyber incidents are a business risk, not just an IT one. And yet the tools to help organisations understand and demonstrate their IT governance position have remained expensive, slow, and designed for specialists.
Scarlett McDermott saw this pattern repeatedly through her work at Longitude Advisory, helping leaders navigate technology with confidence. Time and again, the organisations that needed the clearest picture of their IT position were the ones least equipped to get it. A structured independent view existed — but only if you could afford a full audit and had an IT team to interpret the result.
Lumenas was founded to close that gap: to take the same quality of independent governance insight that large enterprises commission, and make it accessible, fast, and useful to the organisations that have been going without it.
“Good technology governance shouldn’t be the exclusive domain of large organisations with dedicated IT teams. The mid-market organisations that rely most heavily on managed IT services deserve the same quality of independent, structured insight.”
Governance expertise and data-science rigour, built into the product.
Scarlett is a digital leadership and technology governance specialist whose career spans software development, cyber security, product management and executive advisory. As a former Chief Technology Officer, she understands what technology delivery looks like from the inside. As Managing Director of Longitude Advisory, she has spent years helping leaders understand and govern technology from the outside.
Susan is an economist and strategy consultant. Her work focuses on translating complex data about technology environments into structured, evidence-based analysis that leaders can actually act on. That capability sits at the heart of what Lumenas produces: not a data dump, but a clear picture of responsibility, risk and priority.
Isaac is an experienced software developer. He has contributed to complex web application development projects across public and private sector organisations. At Lumenas, Isaac leads our technology development.