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

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Published: 2026-05-19T21:21:40+00:00
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## Resource

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 🎙️ 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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