START pod: Alisa Rae, Founder & CEO, Lucent: “AI that watches every session replay to catch bugs and surface insights automatically.”

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A bug shows up in your product
Lucent spots it
Drops an alert in Slack

Someone tags a coding agent in the thread

It ships a PR

Fixed before anyone knew it was broken

This is the workflow Lucent users are actually running today

Lucent watches your session replays like a human analyst: friction points, bugs, failed upgrades...

Patterns no human has time to sit through

Connects to PostHog. Quick set up.

Julius, Mastra, BrowserUse and more already on it

Every session replay you're collecting and not watching is data you're wasting

Lucent can help

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🎙️ Alisa Rae, Founder, Lucent on Fondo START pod

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00:44 Building an AI that watches your session replays

1:10 Leaving Australia's Tall Poppy Syndrome for SF

2:41 Getting rejected by YC as a solo founder

3:32 Why she decided to keep building alone

4:36 Raising a $1.3M pre-seed round

6:43 Pivoting Lucent into AI training data

7:29 Returning to the original vision

9:27 Why this was impossible before modern AI

11:21 AI agents generating PRs from Lucent alerts

13:28 get a co-founder for YC?

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