About Lucuma

Built by a recruiter's frustration with generic tools

Lucuma exists because specialist recruiters deserved a screening tool that actually understands their sector, not a general-purpose HR platform adapted to fit.

Why Lucuma exists

Energy sector recruiters face a specific problem. The roles are complex, the candidates are international, and the CVs are often written by people who have spent decades offshore or in the field, not people optimised for ATS keyword matching.

Generic screening tools were built for high-volume generalist hiring. They rely on keywords and job title matching. They have no idea what a drilling engineer at Halliburton actually means, or whether someone with "subsea experience" at Technip is a good match for an upstream completions role.

Lucuma was built to fix that. It uses AI that genuinely understands the energy sector, the companies, the disciplines, the certifications and the career patterns, and applies that understanding to screen CVs at speed, with accuracy, without hallucination.

We built it for specialist recruiters who place candidates into oil and gas, offshore, engineering, renewables, and adjacent sectors. Every feature decision starts from that use case.

What makes Lucuma different
Semantic boolean search
Understands what you mean, not just what you type. No keyword stuffing required.
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Company intelligence
Automatically identifies every employer's sector, SLB, Petrofac, Wood Group and thousands more.
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Relevant years, not total years
Calculates how much of a candidate's experience is actually relevant to the specific role.
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No guesswork
CVs with insufficient data are flagged for manual review, never scored on incomplete information.

What we believe

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Accuracy over speed

We would rather flag a CV for manual review than score it on guesswork. A wrong score is worse than no score.

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AI assists, humans decide

Lucuma is a tool for experienced recruiters, not a replacement for them. Every hiring decision stays with the person.

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Privacy by design

We do not store candidate CVs. We do not use candidate data to train AI. We do not sell data. Full stop.

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Honest about limitations

We do not claim 100% accuracy. We tell you where data is insufficient. We do not hide uncertainty behind confident scores.

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Fair pricing

Specialist tools should not cost enterprise budgets. Lucuma starts at £99/month, not £35,000/year.

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Built to grow

We ship improvements continuously. Features come from real recruiter feedback, not product roadmap theatre.

Developed by Marvanova

Lucuma is a product of Marvanova, a UK product studio that builds focused, commercial software tools for specialist industries.

We build products that do one thing exceptionally well rather than trying to do everything adequately. Lucuma is our tool for the recruitment industry.

For partnership enquiries, white label licensing, or to discuss building something bespoke: hello@marvanova.com

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Developed and operated in the United Kingdom. ICO registered. GDPR compliant.
No CV storage
Candidate CVs are processed in memory and never written to our servers