Why Lumecon
Every organization has an economic impact. Far fewer can describe it. The software has been expensive, the study has meant a consultant and a calendar, and the result has often arrived as a number with nothing behind it. Lumecon exists so that an organization can understand and explain its own economic contribution, and keep the evidence for it.
The prices are published on the site, not quoted per organization, so a budget can be written before a conversation happens.
$1,000a year
Sprout, for one analyst. Paid plans start here.
The same model on every paid plan
The plans differ in how many people use them and what they share, never in the economics. Nobody buys a better multiplier.
Unlimited analyses
Analyses are not metered, so a second look at a scenario costs nothing and a yearly update is not a new purchase.
Every supported U.S. geography
Counties, states, the nation, reservations and trust lands. Geography is not sold as an add-on.
Client work is licensed at two levels: Sapling for a consultancy working within ten seats, reassigned as engagements change, and Tree for one past ten. An organization-wide license — a university, bank, CDFI or agency — is Tree, where seats are unlimited across the organization. Sapling is $2,500 a year, Tree is $7,500. See every plan and what it includes.
Most of the effort in an impact study is not the economics. It is finding the records, deciding what each figure means, and rebuilding an analysis that already existed once. That is the part Lumecon takes on.
Budgets, audited statements, payroll summaries and program reports go in as they are, rather than being retyped into a template first. Nothing is calculated until a person has reviewed the inputs and the assumptions. How Cedar works.
A completed analysis stays with its inputs, assumptions and sources. Next budget cycle you update what changed rather than reassembling the whole thing, and two years or two scenarios can be put side by side in jobs, labor income, GDP contribution, economic output and tax impacts.
The product cannot make other people faster. Approvals, a council agenda and the wait for a figure only one department holds still take the time they take. We have not measured a time saving and do not claim one.
Every headline figure carries a trace. Here is the one from the analysis at the top of this page, written out: the same total, decomposed two ways, each of which adds up.
Economic output$1,240,500,000
By effect layer
Direct$744,300,000
60% The activity itself.
Indirect$310,125,000
25% The suppliers it buys from.
Induced$186,075,000
15% Household spending its wages support.
By operation
Resort and gaming operations$607,845,000
49% of the total
Retail village and leasing$384,555,000
31% of the total
Government and member services$248,100,000
20% of the total
The inputs carry the same treatment: each one is tagged as reported, apportioned or estimated, so a reviewer can see which figures came from a document and which the model supplied. Exports carry the sources, the assumptions and the full tables. How lineage is constructed.
Illustrative sample analysis, not a customer.
The organizations that most need an economic account of themselves are often the ones a standard model handles worst: several entities, a government that is also an employer, and a geography that is not a county.
More than one entity
A government, its enterprises and its programs are one economy and several sets of books. An analysis can hold them together and still report them apart.
Government and enterprise activity together
Tribal governments are their own category in the classification rather than one line inside Public Administration, because a nation running administration, housing, health and education is understated by that line.
Reservation and trust-land geographies
Homelands are modeled regions with their own characteristics, not a share of a county. Where an analysis covers a state and its homelands, both are reported with the subset relationship stated, so nothing is added twice.
The model, the data and the software are built by people who did this work somewhere else first, mostly inside the institutions that publish the data the model runs on.
Elijah Moreno
Founder and CEO
Eight years producing tribal economic-impact studies and related public-policy research.
Laurel Wheeler
Principal Economist
Economist at the Center for Indian Country Development at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis before joining Lumecon.
Isabella Agnes
Principal Data Scientist
Builds Lumecon's regional input-output models and multiplier system, connecting source data to reviewable economic impact estimates.
Francesca Agnes
Cedar Systems Lead
Builds the intake and assumption-review systems that help Cedar turn organizational records into structured, reviewable analysis.
Kaylyn Lee
Platform Lead
Builds the platform organizations use to scope, run and revisit analyses.
Method
The economics, with the equations
Regionalization, the effect layers, the public sources and their vintages, and a labeled section on what the model assumes and where it stops.
Read the methodologyComparison
How Lumecon differs from established platforms
Input-output analysis is an openly published field, and established platforms and Lumecon draw on the same national statistical system. The differences are the data architecture, the regionalization, the per-figure lineage, reservation and trust-land modeling, the workflow and the price. Lumecon is not affiliated with or endorsed by IMPLAN, REMI or any other platform.
See the model itselfSecurity
How organizational information is handled
Lumecon is formalizing its security program against the AICPA Trust Services Criteria, with a future SOC 2 Type II examination as the target. No SOC 2 examination has been completed and no report is available today. The page states which controls are in place, which are in progress and which are not.
Read the current statusWhat does this organization contribute to the economy around it, and what is the evidence? Seed access is free during the private beta: bring your documents, build an analysis and see the direct effects. If you are not sure what to ask for yet, the starting guide proposes a scope you can actually run.
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