Your personal libraries — overview

As you accumulate practice, you build up reusable content: narratives you phrase well, illustrations you regularly insert, contract templates tailored to your needs, report templates adapted to your approach. Lumos centralizes all this in personal libraries that you configure once and that then accelerate every inspection.

The four libraries

Lumos offers four dedicated spaces for your reusable content.

The Narrative Bank

This is your library of narratives — descriptions, inspection methods, standard observations, well-crafted phrasings that you insert into your reports. Lumos provides a base bank; you complete it with your own phrasings over time.

Top-level sidebar item Narrative Bank. Covered in detail in Chapter 8 — The Narrative Bank.

The Image Bank

This is your library of technical illustrations — stair anatomy diagrams, foundation drainage schematics, wall cross-sections, winter conditions of a poorly insulated attic, etc. You insert these images into your narratives to explain a phenomenon or illustrate a recommendation.

Top-level sidebar item Image Bank. Covered in detail in 13.2 The Image Bank.

Your custom contract templates

This is your library of service agreements tailored to your needs, alongside system templates (BNQ, AIBQ, APCHQ). You draft agreements adapted to specific cases (commercial, pre-sale, bilingual).

Configured in Business Configuration > Service Agreements. Covered in Chapter 10.2 — Available agreement templates.

Your report templates

This is your library of report structures — building sections and sub-sections, severity levels, automatic narratives, PDF layout, client report design. You start from a system template (BNQ 3009-500 or Pre-handover) that you clone and customize.

Configured in Settings > Report Template. Covered in a dedicated section (see the main table of contents — exploration in progress).

How they fit together

The libraries work together during report writing:

You open an inspection built on a template (which defines the section structure).
For each sub-section, you insert a narrative from your Narrative Bank (the AI can suggest relevant ones thanks to the canonical category from the template).
In the narrative, you can attach an illustration from your Image Bank to clarify an explanation.
When you send the quote or invoice, Lumos attaches the service agreement from your template library.

Once these libraries are well-stocked, your writing rhythm goes up significantly.

The recommended setup order

For a new account, the suggested order:

Contract templates — make sure at least one template (system or personal) is ready before your first quote.
Report template — clone the system BNQ template and adapt it to your style (severities, default narrative phrasing). See the dedicated section.
Narrative Bank — at first, use the base bank; add your own narratives as you go through your first inspections.
Image Bank — least critical at startup; populate it when you identify the illustrations that recur often in your reports.

Private or shared

For the Image Bank, each image is either private (visible to you only) or shared with your team (if you work with inspector sub-accounts under a master account). No personal library content is shared with the public or with clients.

The Narrative Bank follows the same team-sharing logic, detailed in Chapter 8.