EPISODE · May 19, 2026 · 15 MIN
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 SlackSomeone tags a coding agent in the thread It ships a PRFixed before anyone knew it was brokenThis is the workflow Lucent users are actually running todayLucent watches your session replays like a human analyst: friction points, bugs, failed upgrades...Patterns no human has time to sit throughConnects to PostHog. Quick set up. Julius, Mastra, BrowserUse and more already on itEvery session replay you're collecting and not watching is data you're wastingLucent can help🎙️ Alisa Rae, Founder, Lucent on Fondo START pod 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?Check out www.lucenthq.com to learn more
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A bug shows up in your product Lucent spots it Drops an alert in SlackSomeone tags a coding agent in the thread It ships a PRFixed before anyone knew it was brokenThis is the workflow Lucent users are actually running todayLucent watches your session replays like a human analyst: friction points, bugs, failed upgrades...Patterns no human has time to sit throughConnects to PostHog. Quick set up. Julius, Mastra, BrowserUse and more already on itEvery session replay you're collecting and not watching is data you're wastingLucent can help🎙️ Alisa Rae, Founder, Lucent on Fondo START pod 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?Check out www.lucenthq.com to learn more
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START pod: Alisa Rae, Founder & CEO, Lucent: “AI that watches every session replay to catch bugs and surface insights automatically.”
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