Saving lighting from misguided value engineering
Earthlight embeds Human ROI modeling into lighting design workflows. It protects scope, reducing value engineering losses, and aligning capital decisions with long-term operational performance.
Quantify impact in financial language before it gets stripped from the project.
Why Lighting Matters in Business
Light regulates the human circadian system, affecting sleep, cognition, reaction time, mood, and metabolic stability.
Business impact includes:
Higher healthcare exposure
Fatigue-related errors
Increased absenteeism
Slower cognitive throughput
Retention instability
Lighting is not aesthetic infrastructure. It is performance optimization technology and risk reduction.
The CapEx / OpEx Disconnect
Lighting is purchased as capital expenditure, but its biological and performance consequences show up in operating budgets for years.
Procurement processes rarely connect these layers, causing circadian lighting to be cut during value engineering - When construction creeps over budget, this is where user needs are ignored.
Spec teams lose income.
Designers lose intent.
Organizations absorb preventable operational drag.
Earthlight Bridges the Gap
Earthlight is decision-support software embedded into specification and proposal workflows.
Using peer reviewed research, it models:
- Productivity capacity
- Error probability
- Absenteeism risk
- Retention stability
- Health-related cost exposure
CapEx decisions become aligned with long-term operational outcomes.
Protecting Lighting Professionals
Extensive research based on a firm with 20-25 employees in Toronto GTA shows how value engineering impacts lighting professionals.
810
hours of VE rework annually
86%
of employees experience unpaid rework
$30K
loss of commission and unpaid work per salesperson
These are translation failures, not technical failures.
Earthlight:
- Quantifies circadian impact in CFO language
- Reduces unpaid VE rework
- Protects lighting design
- Saves lost man-hours
- Improves proposal differentiation
What Changes With Earthlight
Before Tender
- ROI documentation embedded in design phase
- Circadian benefits modeled early
- Financial implications clarified
During Procurement
- Lighting positioned as performance investment
- VE erosion reduced
- Stakeholder objections pre-answered
After Implementation
- Less rework
- Protected design
- Stronger client alignment
- Measurable performance outcomes
Enterprise Impact at Scale
Lighting affects every employee daily and small biological misalignments compound over time.
Impact includes:
Performance improves
Risk exposure declines
Retention stabilizes
Operational costs align with capital intent
Scientific & Engineering Community
Earthlight convenes researchers, engineers, and designers at the intersection of circadian biology and performance economics.
Detailed technical resources, modeling documentation, and implementation guidance are available through a professional learning environment.
Leadership
Sarah Morgan
CEO
Sarah founded Earthlight to bridge human biology and enterprise economics. Her work integrates circadian science, performance modeling, and strategic capital alignment, positioning environmental decisions as measurable drivers of workforce output and financial resilience.
Chris Sembroski
CTO
Chris leads Earthlight's technical architecture and modeling systems. With expertise spanning aerospace engineering, systems design, and applied analytics, he translates circadian science into scalable, enterprise-ready decision-support software.
Troy Martin
CFO / COO
Troy oversees financial strategy, operational scale, and capital planning. His background in enterprise finance and growth operations ensures Earthlight's models align with executive investment frameworks and measurable ROI standards.
Align Biology, Capital, and Performance
Schedule a conversation to explore how Earthlight can embed Human ROI into your design and decision processes.