About
We spent years rebuilding trails that should have been kept
Lumenpath started after a dispute over a 2014 shipment took four people three weeks to answer, and the answer was still a best guess.
Three rules we do not bend
Sit beside the systems, not on top of them
Your TMS, your bank portal and your document management system stay where they are. Lumenpath records what moves between them.
A record nobody can read is not evidence
Plain summaries next to the cryptography. If a reviewer needs us to explain a packet, the packet failed.
Say what is missing
Where the trail has a gap, we show the gap. A tidy report that hides a hole costs more than an honest one.
Four people, three offices, one boring obsession
Between us we have sat on both sides of the table: the operations desk that files the document and the review that questions it later.
Ilse Vermeer
Co-founder
Twelve years in trade finance operations at a Dutch bank
Chiara Bellandi
Co-founder
Eleven years running documentation for a customs broker in Genoa
Grace Lim
Records counsel
Advised on retention and disclosure in shipping disputes
Petter Aas
Engineering
Storage and long-term archives
Early, and saying so
We are a small company running first deployments with a handful of exporters and one freight forwarder. We are not a bank, a registry or a certification body, and we do not hold any accreditation yet.
What we can show is a working trail, a seal you can verify yourself, and a readiness score that tells you where your records are thin. If that is useful now, talk to us. If you need a certified archive today, we will point you elsewhere.
Bring one file that failed a review. We will walk it back to its origin.
Send a document that an auditor, a bank or a counterparty questioned. We will show what Lumenpath would have kept, and what nobody can reconstruct any more.