About Lumen Studios

Lumen Studios is a creative agency working with brands across advertising, film, and digital product. As client work grew, so did the complexity of tracking spend, invoices, and monthly numbers across multiple accounts and platforms, each project running its own timeline, its own billing cycle, and its own set of numbers to keep straight.

A close that took a week to finish

Every month, Lumen's finance lead pulled numbers from four different tools by hand, cross-checking invoices against bank statements line by line. What should have taken a day stretched into most of a week, and errors still slipped through, a missed invoice here, a duplicate charge there, usually caught too late to fix cleanly. By the time the books closed, the numbers were already out of date, and the next month's work had already started on top of them.

One dashboard instead of four tools

Lumen connected their bank accounts, Stripe, and their accounting software to Netto in a single afternoon, no manual imports or drawn-out onboarding required. Smart reconciliation started matching transactions automatically from day one, flagging the handful that needed a second look instead of making the team check every single row by hand. What used to be a full week of cross-referencing became a quick daily glance at what actually needed attention.

From 5 days to 1

Within the first full month, Lumen's close time dropped from five days to one. Discrepancies that used to take hours to trace were flagged automatically before they became a problem, and the finance lead could finally see live cash flow instead of waiting until the books closed to know where things stood. The team stopped reacting to last month's numbers and started making decisions with this month's.