TheSector

Luna Labs · Desktop application

Every provider, accounted for.

The Sector is a desktop application for Australia's early childhood education and care sector. It collects providers, matches them against the ACECQA registers, researches each one on the open web, and assembles a single verified snapshot — with the evidence attached to every figure it reports.

  • Platform Windows · macOS
  • Release 0.1.0 · development
  • Installers Not yet published
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Natively compiled.
No Electron, no browser.

One codebase, compiled to a native binary for each platform. The installers below are not published yet — packaging and code signing are the last items before the first tagged release.

Windows

Setup.exe · x64

Build pending
Requires
Windows 10 (1809) or later, 64-bit
Runtime
Bundled — no .NET install needed
Delivery
Velopack installer, Start Menu entry
Signature
Not yet signed
Size
—

The Windows installer is produced by the release pipeline, which is not yet wired up.

macOS

.dmg · Apple silicon & Intel

Build pending
Requires
macOS 12 Monterey or later
Runtime
Bundled — no .NET install needed
Delivery
Velopack .dmg, app bundle
Signature
Developer certificate held; notarised at publish
Size
—

The Windows build ships first. The macOS bundle follows on the same release pipeline.

Current status The application runs today and is in active use on Windows: the five data phases are built, and a full 64-provider research run has been completed end to end. What is missing is packaging — installers, code signing and over-the-air updates. Until those land there is nothing here to download, and this page says so rather than linking you to a file that does not exist.

The pipeline

Eight phases. One button.

Phases 01–05 produce the snapshot table and are built. Phases 06–08 turn that table into the finished report and are designed but not yet implemented — the application's own rail shows them dimmed, for the same reason this page does.

01 · Data

Collect

Collects the provider list, then asks you to confirm which entries are for-profit.

Built

02 · Data

Match

Fetches the ACECQA registers, matches providers to them and counts quality ratings.

Built

03 · Data

Enrich

Builds Table 1 (centre network) and Table 2 (quality ratings) from the matched register data.

Built

04 · Data

Research

Researches each provider on the open web across three passes, then puts every disagreement to you.

Built

05 · Data

Snapshot

Verifies and fills the snapshot table, then exports it as a workbook.

Built

06 · Document

Draft

Turns the snapshot into report copy.

Planned

07 · Document

Design

Applies the report layout and places the client's marks.

Planned

08 · Document

Render

Produces the finished report.

Planned

Measured

Figures from real runs.

Every number below came off an actual run and carries the date it was measured. None of them are projections.

64

Providers in a full run

Covering 418 subsidiary legal entities across the states. Measured 5 September 2026.

US$58.68

Cost of that run

Billed by OpenAI to the operator's own key. Roughly US$0.92 per provider at three passes. Measured 5 September 2026.

254

Answers accepted automatically

386 further questions were held back for a person to decide rather than guessed at. Measured 5 September 2026.

How acceptance works An answer is accepted without asking you only when all three research passes agree on it and at least two independent domains support it. Anything short of that becomes a question on the approval screen, with its candidate answers and their sources. Uncertainty is shown, not resolved quietly. The documentation sets out the full rule.

Documentation

What it is for, how to run it, what it costs.

Requirements, first run, each of the eight phases, how research and approvals work, what the export contains, measured costs, and where your data lives.

Read the documentation