How Clever Landscaping cut weeks of manual paperwork with Lumin

Alberto Lebaron is the financial controller at Clever Landscaping, a Denver-based commercial landscaping company that handles maintenance, new installs, and snow removal across Colorado. He runs accounts receivable, accounts payable, and payroll, making sure the money moves where it's supposed to: on time, every time.

He'd never worked in an office before this role. Word documents he knew, but paperwork, processing, and digital signatures were a whole new world.

A huge part of Alberto's day revolves around documents that confirm transactions and release liability with material suppliers. They need to be filled out, signed, and sent back quickly, often dozens at a time with the same fields repeating across a whole spreadsheet of vendors.

When he first started at Clever Landscaping, Alberto's workflow involved printing each document, handwriting the data into every box, signing by hand, scanning it back in, emailing it out, and repeating all over again.

The solution

A co-worker recommended Lumin. Alberto signed up and was up and running almost immediately.

The signature feature sold him. The ability to drop in a clean, professional digital signature meant the documents he was sending to suppliers actually looked official.

For Alberto, the even bigger win was discovering he could save documents and reuse them. Most of his waivers are templates with only a few fields that change: dates, amounts, vendor names. With Lumin, he opens the saved version, updates the variables, and sends it out. A spreadsheet of waivers that used to mean filling in every single box from scratch now means adjusting only what needs adjusting.

"What I like about Lumin is I can go in and do the exact same document and just adjust the dates and a few other details versus having to fill out every single piece every single time. I don’t know much about computers but this has been very easy."

For Alberto, Lumin is the daily driver. He shares his workspace with his assistant, keeping AR moving even when he's not at his desk.

Why Alberto recommends Lumin

For someone who'd never touched office paperwork before, the biggest thing Lumin gave Alberto was speed without complexity. He estimates Lumin saves him a week to a week and a half of work that used to disappear into manual processing. For a financial controller running AR, AP, and payroll for a busy landscaping operation, fast is exactly the point.

"I would recommend it for sure. It's so nice that I can get it done so fast."