Valorian x Lumitech
Growing From Industrial Consulting Firm to Product-Led Company
Modernizing industrial services with a modular SaaS ecosystem that turns consulting insight into real‑time scheduling, safety, and compliance tools.
industry
Industrial Sector
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Web & Mobile SaaS Ecosystem
timeline
Jun '23 — Now
client
Valorian
TrueView Mobile
This module brings key turnaround and survey workflows to the field and works offline.
Safety App
It makes safety information usable in real conditions by giving workers clear instructions.
Scheduling Board
This is the software operational core, allowing to plan work orders and manage workflows.
In the heart of Houston’s industrial ecosystem, Valorian was already a trusted consulting partner for plants and energy companies – but they knew that the future of industrial services would not be built on spreadsheets and email chains.
Lumitech joined the story when Valorian decided to turn years of operational know‑how into a product suite that could scale beyond one team, one plant, or even one sector.
Industrial Services That Needed More Than Spreadsheets
Industrial services companies live in a world where every delay, every missed safety report, and every mispriced ticket has a very real cost. Plants and refineries still rely on whiteboards, paper notes, and Excel files to plan shifts, track work, and calculate rates – even when the dollar value of a single turnaround can reach millions.
Valorian saw this gap from the inside. As a consulting company working with energy and petrochemical clients, they were constantly asked the same question in different forms: “How do we get control over our work, our data, and our margins without slowing the field down?”.
Instead of just advising, Valorian decided to build. The idea was simple but ambitious – turn their consulting insight into a modular SaaS platform that helps industrial companies plan work, keep people safe, stay compliant, and get paid correctly. Lumitech came in as a long‑term technology partner to make this vision real.
About the Client
Valorian is a Houston‑based company that serves industrial services providers in the energy and petrochemical sectors – from refineries and chemical plants to other heavy‑industry facilities.
The company started as a consulting firm, helping contractors and plant operators optimize operations, track financial performance, and improve compliance. Over time, it became clear that spreadsheets and ad‑hoc tools could not keep up with the complexity of modern industrial work. That is where the shift toward internal software products began.
Today, Valorian combines industry consulting with a suite of digital products, focusing on problems like contract compliance, turnaround tracking, safety, and environmental data capture. Their clients include industrial service providers across mechanical services, industrial cleaning, fabrication, construction, soft crafts, and refractory work.
Behind Valorian, there is a strong founding team:
Mike – CTO and President, with deep technical background and sharp business sense, and Lumitech’s main point of contact.
Darin and Randy – focused on sales and business development, making sure the product suite is not only built but also sold and deployed across real industrial sites.
This combination of commercial focus and technical leadership made Valorian a rare case: a startup that thought about sales and market fit from day one, not after the code was written.
Interesting Facts
From consulting to product company
Valorian did not abandon its advisory roots but used them to define the real problems software should solve, starting with scheduling, safety, and compliance on industrial sites.
Houston as a strategic location
Being based in Houston, a global hub for oil & gas and heavy industry, gave Valorian direct access to the plants and service providers that now use their solutions.
SOC 2 Type II certified
Valorian is SOC 2 Type II certified, which is considered a gold standard in data security for platforms handling operational and financial data.
Four core products and counting
Together, Valorian and Lumitech have already built four major applications (Scheduling Board, Safety App, TrueView Admin Panel and Talos (for contract and compliance management), with more modules in development.
Shared growth story
When the partnership started in mid‑2023, both companies were still relatively small; over the next two years, Valorian and Lumitech grew in parallel as the platform gained traction and new contracts.
From consulting to product company
Valorian did not abandon its advisory roots but used them to define the real problems software should solve, starting with scheduling, safety, and compliance on industrial sites.
Houston as a strategic location
Being based in Houston, a global hub for oil & gas and heavy industry, gave Valorian direct access to the plants and service providers that now use their solutions.
SOC 2 Type II certified
Valorian is SOC 2 Type II certified, which is considered a gold standard in data security for platforms handling operational and financial data.
Four core products and counting
Together, Valorian and Lumitech have already built four major applications (Scheduling Board, Safety App, TrueView Admin Panel and Talos (for contract and compliance management), with more modules in development.
Shared growth story
When the partnership started in mid‑2023, both companies were still relatively small; over the next two years, Valorian and Lumitech grew in parallel as the platform gained traction and new contracts.
The Challenge
Before the platform existed, industrial services companies operated with a patchwork of tools: wall boards, phone calls, paper JSAs, and complex Excel sheets used to calculate labor rates, equipment usage, and safety indicators.
This created several recurring problems:
- Scheduling was manual and fragile - shifts, crews, and equipment had to be coordinated by hand, making it hard to scale operations or react quickly to change.
- Safety data lived in PDFs and dense tables – workers struggled to access clear safety guidance in the field, and key insights were buried in documents that almost no one had time to review.
- Turnaround delays were hard to see in real time – by the time management realized how much a delay would cost, it was often too late to act.
- Contracts and billing did not always match the reality in the field – revenue leakage could happen when work was done but not captured correctly or billed according to contract terms.
Valorian did not want “just an app”. They wanted:
- A modular ecosystem that could cover scheduling, safety, turnaround tracking, and compliance.
- A multi‑tenant architecture flexible enough to onboard new clients and sites without rewriting the core.
- Tools that field workers would actually use – on web and mobile, online and offline.
The challenge for Lumitech was to move fast enough to validate the product with real clients, while also laying down an architecture that could support multiple sites, roles, and future modules without collapsing under its own complexity.
Our Solutions
Instead of building “one big system” from the start, Valorian and Lumitech agreed on a modular product suite – several focused applications that work together through a shared architecture, UI‑kit, and APIs.
Together, these products form an ecosystem rather than a single tool – each module solves a clear problem, but all of them share the same language of users, sites, and workflows.
Our Approach
From the very beginning, Lumitech did not come in as a traditional outsourcing vendor. The engagement was set up as a dedicated team that behaves like an internal engineering department for Valorian.
Dedicated Team, Deeply Embedded
The team structure on Lumitech’s side includes:
- 4 middle+ and senior developers.
- 1 UI / UX designer.
- A team lead coordinating engineering decisions.
On Valorian’s side, the core counterparts are Mike (CTO), Luke (Engineering Manager), and the co‑founders responsible for sales and operations. Communication flows directly between engineers and decision‑makers – no extra layers, no long chains of approvals.
The collaboration principles are simple:
- Full integration into Valorian’s processes – from planning and architecture to design reviews and release decisions.
- Proactive input – developers are expected to propose solutions, challenge assumptions, and think about product outcomes, not just tickets.
- Minimum bureaucracy – asynchronous updates, Loom videos, and focused discussions replace heavy documentation and long status calls.
From MVP to Scale, Step by Step
The development journey followed a clear sequence:
- PoC / MVP (July–September 2023) – build the first Scheduling Board prototype on Firebase to validate the idea quickly and cost‑effectively.
- Re‑architecture (October 2023) – once traction and client interest were confirmed, the team migrated to a Nest.js + PostgreSQL backend to support production workloads.
- Scaling (2024) – add Safety and Turnaround modules, evolve the UI/UX, and strengthen multi‑tenant support.
- Mobile Expansion (2025) – launch mobile experiences for field workers (Safety App Mobile, TrueView Mobile) with offline‑first capabilities.
This approach allowed Valorian to start selling and piloting the product early, without locking themselves into a fragile prototype. At the same time, the architecture evolved in parallel with the business, not in isolation.
How We Grew Together – Lumitech and Valorian
The Valorian partnership is not just a story about building software; it is a story about two companies moving up together.
When the collaboration started, Lumitech was still a relatively small but fast‑growing engineering company. Valorian, in turn, was at the stage where consulting success had to be translated into a scalable product strategy. Over the next two years, as new modules went live and more industrial sites adopted the platform, both businesses expanded their teams and ambitions.
Several things made this growth mutual:
Balanced leadership
Valorian brought strong C‑level leadership in both technology and sales, while Lumitech brought a focused, product‑driven engineering culture.
Trust and autonomy
Valorian trusted Lumitech’s engineers to think like owners of the product, not temporary contractors. Lumitech, in turn, treated Valorian’s roadmap as its own.
Startup pace with enterprise expectations
Especially at the beginning, the team had to move quickly, answer questions from clients and “clients of the client”, and sometimes work across time zones and late hours to keep pilots on track.
Because of this, the relationship never felt like a one‑off project. It became a long‑term partnership where new ideas, such as ESG monitoring or advanced contract compliance, naturally turned into new product initiatives instead of separate RFPs.
Our Results
Over the course of the partnership, Valorian and Lumitech have achieved results that can be seen both in the product ecosystem and in the business trajectory.
Product and Platform Outcomes
- A multi‑product ecosystem with 4+ interconnected solutions (Scheduling Board, Safety App, TrueView, Contract & Compliance in development).
- A robust, modular architecture that supports multi‑tenant deployments, multiple sites, role‑based access, and expansion into new modules without rewriting the core.
- A consistent UX across web and mobile, powered by a shared UI‑kit and design language tailored to industrial use cases.
Business and Adoption Outcomes
- Active use of Valorian’s solutions across multiple industrial sites in the U.S., replacing manual planning and paper‑based workflows with digital tools.
- A transition from consulting‑only revenue to a product‑driven business model, supported by a growing suite of SaaS offerings.
- Ongoing hiring and growth on Valorian’s side, as the platform gains traction and new industrial clients come on board.
Partnership Outcomes
- A stable, long‑lived engineering team – the same core Lumitech engineers have been working with Valorian for more than two years, preserving context and product memory.
- A cooperation model built on direct access to CTO‑level leadership, shared decision‑making, and a clear understanding that success is measured not by “features shipped” but by better operations on real plants and job sites.
This is not a story about a one‑time delivery. It is a story about building an industrial product company together – step by step, module by module, contract by contract – with a partnership where technology and business grow in the same direction.
Our Future Plans
The partnership between Valorian and Lumitech continues with the development of the Contract & Compliance Module, which extends the TrueView Ops ecosystem into the area of contract enforcement and revenue protection. This module is being designed to close the gap between what contracts specify, what actually happens in the field, and what ultimately appears in billing.
In many industrial and service organizations, a portion of completed work never reaches the invoice or is billed incorrectly because of process gaps, complex contract terms, and human error. The Contract & Compliance Module addresses this by automatically validating field tickets and resource usage against contract rules, with a clear audit trail for operational and finance teams.
Within the TrueView Ops ecosystem, the module will sit on top of core operational data:
It will use automated ticket creation as a clean source of record for work performed.
It will draw on resource management for labor and equipment usage.
It will reference scheduling and dispatch (Scheduling Board) to compare planned versus actual work.
Some of these integrations already have a defined architecture, while others – especially advanced field ticketing scenarios and more complex contract rules – are in the design and scoping phase. The shared goal is to give Valorian’s clients a single place where they can see, for each contract, what was promised, what was done, and what was billed, and to surface discrepancies early rather than after revenue has leaked.
From a collaboration perspective, this module shows how the partnership is evolving: earlier work on Scheduling Board, Safety App, and TrueView Mobile laid the foundation in planning, safety, and data collection; Contract & Compliance builds on that foundation to help clients turn operational accuracy into financial integrity and long‑term growth.
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