Yohan Tsung
Vice President of Product
Q: For readers hearing about Lumos for the first time, what is the platform and why was it created?
A:Lumos is an AI powered enterprise platform designed to help organisations deliver software faster and with better quality, stronger control and less operational friction.
It supports the full software delivery life cycle from business analysis and solution design to development, quality assurance, DevOps, governance and management visibility. Instead of functioning as a stand-alone AI tool, Lumos can be connected with existing corporate systems in place including code repositories, project management platforms, documentation sources, design tools and testing environments.
The platform was created to address a growing challenge in modern enterprises. Software delivery is becoming increasingly complex while teams face pressure to deliver faster, reduce costs, maintain quality and adopt artificial intelligence responsibly.
Lumos brings together specialised AI agents, enterprise knowledge and workflow automation into one governed platform, enabling organisations to accelerate delivery without losing control, traceability or consistency.
Q: Lumos is described as a corporate brain for software delivery… what does that mean in practical terms?
A:The idea of a corporate brain is about helping organisations retain, understand and reuse software delivery intelligence.
Every software initiative generates valuable knowledge including why requirements changed, how architecture decisions were made, which integration approaches worked, what testing gaps emerged, which defects occurred and how issues were resolved.
In many organisations however, this knowledge either disappears after a project ends or remains locked inside documents, tools or individual experience.
Lumos captures this delivery context and converts it into reusable institutional intelligence. When a new project begins, teams can build on proven patterns, past decisions, existing components, known risks and previous lessons instead of depending solely on personal memory or manual discovery.
The leadership value is considerable. Software delivery becomes more predictable, auditable and scalable. New teams can ramp up faster, repeated mistakes can be reduced and the organisation becomes less exposed to key person or vendor dependency.
Over time, Lumos helps convert software knowledge into a durable strategic asset that compounds with every project, release and delivery cycle.
Q: What problem is Lumos solving for corporates?
A:Most companies do not suffer from a shortage of software tools. They suffer from fragmented knowledge.
Requirements live in one place, code in another, decisions in meetings, defects in test tools and operational knowledge inside people’s heads. This creates rework, slow onboarding, weak traceability, duplicated investments and dependency on a few key individuals.
Lumos addresses this by connecting the organisation’s tools, people and delivery history into a governed intelligence layer. It helps leaders reduce delivery drag, protect knowledge, improve governance and transform software delivery from a series of isolated projects into a continuously learning operating capability.
Q: How is Lumos different from AI coding assistants and generic artificial intelligence tools?
A:While coding assistants help individuals write code faster, Lumos goes further. It includes code generation, code review, refactoring, documentation and integrated development environment (IDE) level assistance but its broader purpose is to automate and govern the full software delivery life cycle.
Lumos connects requirements, architecture, engineering, quality assurance, DevOps, project management office (PMO) functions and management visibility through a shared corporate brain. It also retains the reasoning behind decisions, not only the output.
“The idea of a corporate brain is about helping organisations retain, understand and reuse software delivery intelligence”
In essence, while AI coding tools make individuals fast, Lumos makes the organisation faster, smarter, more consistent and more resilient over time.
Q: What does agentic software delivery mean in Lumos?
A:Agentic software delivery means specialised AI agents can plan and execute work across the software delivery lifecycle with human oversight.
A business analysis agent can convert requirements into user stories, acceptance criteria, process maps and impact analysis. Architecture agents can propose solution options and identify dependencies. An engineering agent can generate, review and refactor code in line with enterprise patterns.
Furthermore, QA agents can generate test cases, automation scripts and defect analysis.
Director Product : Dineshka Seneviratne, Vice President of Product : Yohan Tsung and Director Engineering : Janitha Gunawardana
DevOps agents can support release, deployment, monitoring and incident triage. Governance agents can maintain traceability, audit evidence, access controls and policy alignment across the delivery life cycle.
Lumos therefore is not one assistant but an orchestrated AI workforce working across streams.
Q: What does the Lumos product ecosystem include?
A:Lumos is delivered as a platform ecosystem rather than a single application.
The web app provides teams a collaborative workspace for planning, analysis, delivery and knowledge access while the desktop app supports deeper individual work including development, QA and automation-oriented workflows.
IDE plug-ins for tools such as VS Code, IntelliJ and WebStorm bring Lumos into the developer’s daily environment. The CLI enables interaction with Lumos and automation in technical and DevOps workflows.
Agent Management Studio serves as the enterprise control plane for configuring agentic workflows, managing knowledge bases, monitoring sessions, enforcing policies and securing keys.
Meanwhile, the Analytics Hub gives leadership holistic visibility into adoption, usage patterns, productivity gains, outcome quality, credit consumption and large language model (LLM) usage.
Q: Where can organisations apply Lumos first?
A:High impact starting points include accelerated software product delivery, legacy modernisation, code generation, test case generation, test automation, onboarding, incident resolution and audit readiness.
Lumos is particularly relevant to banks, insurers, fintech firms, telecom providers, healthcare organisations, logistics companies, travel businesses, business process outsourcing (BPO) firms, government institutions, product companies and large in-house technology teams.
Any organisation with complex systems, distributed teams, vendor dependency, compliance pressure or recurring delivery delays can benefit. A practical approach to adoption is to begin with a focused pilot selecting one product team, connecting its codebase and delivery tools, automating selected software development life-cycle workflows, measuring improvements and then scaling progressively.
Q: How does Lumos support software development life cycle automation?
A:Lumos does not treat software delivery life-cycle automation as coding alone.
It begins with business intent and carries context across requirements, solution design, design, development, testing, deployment and continuous improvement.
A requirement can be analysed, converted into stories, mapped to architecture, implemented through governed code generation, validated using automated test assets and traced through to release.
The important difference is continuity. Lumos preserves the thread from “what needs to be done” to “how it was delivered” and “why it was done that way.” This enables more predictable delivery and gives teams a practical way to reduce manual handoffs and repeated effort.
Q: Many leaders are cautious about artificial intelligence governance. How does Lumos address that?
A:Enterprise AI must be controlled, traceable and aligned to policy. Lumos is designed with this in mind. It supports deployment within the customer’s own environment and follows a bring-your-own-LLM approach, allowing organisations to choose suitable models while keeping sensitive data and knowledge within their security perimeter.
Governance is embedded throughout the platform through role-based access, audit logs, knowledge controls, session monitoring and policy enforcement.
This is especially critical for regulated sectors where the question is not only whether artificial intelligence can produce an answer but whether the organisation can trust, trace and govern AI’s answer.
Q: What is the commercial philosophy behind Lumos?
A:Lumos is designed around outcomes rather than seat expansion. Traditional per-user licensing models can discourage enterprise-wide adoption because every additional team increases cost friction.
Lumos takes a different view. Organisations pay in line with completed agent work and measurable value rather than merely for access. This allows broad adoption across developers, QA Professionals, Business analysts, Architects, PMO teams and leadership without needing to ration usage by seat count.
Combined with predictable platform subscriptions, credit-based usage and client-controlled infrastructure and LLM choices, the model gives CFOs clearer cost visibility and a stronger link between spend and delivered outcomes.
Q: What business outcomes should leaders expect from Lumos?
A:The value of Lumos can be measured across speed, cost, quality, governance and enterprise continuity. Based on target benchmarks, organisations can achieve up to a 60 percent reduction in overall software development life cycle effort, alongside 30 to 50 percent faster delivery cycles.
Business analysis and solutioning can be accelerated by up to 40 percent, automated quality assurance by up to 65 percent and project management office tracking and reporting by up to 70 percent.
For engineering teams, Lumos targets a two to threefold increase in baseline developer productivity by reducing time spent searching for information, rewriting similar logic and manually producing documentation.
It also improves workforce scalability, reducing onboarding time by between 50 and 70 percent and enabling new developers, QA engineers or vendors to become productive much faster.
Over the longer term, the value extends beyond efficiency to quality and resilience. As Lumos captures delivery patterns, design decisions, reusable assets and lessons learned, organisations can reduce recurring defects.
More importantly, each project strengthens the next one as institutional knowledge is retained and reused.
Lumos therefore evolves beyond a productivity platform into a strategic software intelligence asset that accelerates delivery speed, reduces dependency on individual memory and strengthens governance and enterprise value over time.
Q: How does CodeGen’s background strengthen Lumos?
A:Lumos is a product innovation of CodeGen International, a technology company with more than 25 years of global enterprise software delivery experience.This pedigree matters because Lumos was not conceived as a generic AI experiment but shaped by real delivery challenges across complex, mission-critical environments where quality, governance, integration and continuity are non-negotiable.
CodeGen’s experience gives Lumos a practical enterprise foundation grounded in an understanding of the realities of legacy systems, large teams, custom workflows, client-specific governance and long-term product evolution.In that sense, Lumos brings proven delivery discipline into the agentic AI era.
