About Lumos
Property inspection deserves to be reimagined. Worthy of those who practice it. Clearer for those who depend on it. That's the mission Lumos has set for itself.
Our mission is to empower every person with the clarity and confidence to make one of life's biggest decisions: buying a home. We envision a world where this process is no longer clouded by uncertainty but guided by trust, defensibility, and transparency.
We equip home inspectors with technological tools and artificial intelligence to mitigate compliance risks and enhance their performance, while giving homeowners unparalleled insight into the true state of a property. In doing so, Lumos transforms stress into understanding, and decisions into peace of mind.
We are in a unique moment where multiple trends converge:
Conversational AI is becoming accessible, stable, and widely adopted by professionals.
The real estate market is constantly shifting, with faster sales cycles and increased pressure on inspection timelines.
Litigation risk is rising, with inspectors increasingly targeted for omissions or vague reports. Legal protection is no longer optional.
Consumers expect more transparent, interactive, and simple tools to understand the risks related to their property.
Yet, most inspection software remains stuck in legacy paradigms: rigid forms, manual data entry, static reports. This is the right time to propose a new approach, conversational, intelligent, legally defensible, and more human, for both professionals and consumers.
Our Story
Upon discovering significant damage in his own home, Sébastien came to a bitter realization: the information was there, in an inspection report received years earlier. But between the technical jargon, unclear priorities, and 80 pages of findings — the essentials had slipped by. As they do for most homeowners.
This realization shed light on a fundamental problem. Inspectors do essential work — but their expertise drowns in reports that no one reads. Meanwhile, 80% of them still juggle disparate tools or manual methods. The leading software? Frozen for a decade.
We saw an opportunity to fix both sides of this equation, not by replacing inspectors, but by giving them superpowers.
Founder
Sébastien Malherbe is a designer and entrepreneur with 25+ years of experience building products people love. He previously served as VP of Product at PasswordBox (acquired by Intel Security) and Co-founder of Breathe Life (acquired by Zinnia).
For Lumos, he's doing something unusual: getting certified as a home inspector himself, completing the full 600-hour certification in Quebec, to truly understand the craft from the inside.
"The best tools aren't built for users but with users."
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Our Values
We build tools that empower professionals, not replace them. Your expertise matters.
If it's not intuitive, it's not done. We obsess over removing friction.
Our knowledge of the trade guarantees a service tailored to your reality.
Small team, big ambition, AI-augmented. We ship fast and iterate with users.
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