Getting Started with LumaVista
Create your account, launch your first project, and understand what LumaVista does.
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Product Tour
A guided walkthrough of LumaVista. Start at the beginning or jump to a specific topic.
Already using LumaVista? The help guides cover finding your way around, managing your knowledge base, scheduling work, and setting up encryption.
Getting Started
Research
The Guided Prompt Builder
Choose a research template, answer clarifying questions, and get a structured prompt — no prompt engineering required.
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Understanding the Research Graph
The nine node types a research run is built from, how the graph grows, and what the budget system is doing.
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Guiding Your Research: Human-in-the-Loop
When to approve, reject, or batch-manage agent requests — and how to use Wrap It Up mode.
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Chatting With Your Research
Ask follow-up questions, request changes, and refine results through the project chat panel.
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Reports & Output
Getting Work Out
Choose what the research becomes — report, executive summary, comparison matrix, LinkedIn posts — then export it as Markdown, HTML, PDF or JSON with the evidence trail intact.
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Refining Reports With Chat
Ask the chat to regenerate reports with different criteria — then compare versions side by side.
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AI-Generated Diagrams in Reports
LumaVista automatically creates publication-quality diagrams from your research — view, export, and embed them.
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Recall & Memory
Your Knowledge Palace
Everything LumaVista has established for you, arranged as a place you can walk through — and used to sharpen the next question you ask.
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Uploading Documents for Research
Upload PDFs, Word docs, and more — LumaVista indexes them and retrieves relevant sections during research.
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Capture
Notes and Wikilinks
A markdown notebook that links to itself — and to your research, documents and knowledge.
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Recording and Transcribing
Record a meeting or a thought, get a speaker-separated transcript you can search and read along with, and keep it encrypted throughout.
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Voice to Action
Say what needs doing and have it done — an opted-in recording starts a workflow that reads the transcript and acts on it.
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Automation & Workflows
Building Workflows
Create multi-step research workflows with conditional logic, approval gates, and API integrations.
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Standard Operating Procedures
Turn repeatable research processes into templated SOPs that your team can run with one click.
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Skills
The unit of work LumaVista can be asked to do — invoked from chat, run from a workflow, or applied to a finished report.
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Trust & Sovereignty
How Your Data Is Protected
Device-controlled encryption, per-user data isolation, sensitivity classification, and what happens when you delete your account.
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Where Your Data Is Processed
Every model running your research is EU-sovereign. What that means, the two deliberate exceptions, and what gets stripped from a request before it leaves.
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Unattended Actions and Approvals
How LumaVista decides whether an automation may contact the outside world on your behalf — and what each of the three approval choices actually grants.
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