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AI that automatically watches your session replays to detect bugs.
Company research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Jul 29, 2026
Overview
Lucent is a YC-backed AI session replay and product-intelligence company that watches user sessions, detects bugs and UX issues automatically, and turns replay evidence into actionable reports and alerts for product and engineering teams.
Primary product
AI session replay tool that automatically watches sessions to detect bugs, UX friction, and product issues.
Founded
2025
Headquarters
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Team size
1-10 employees
Industry
Data Infrastructure and Analytics
Sub-industry
AI session replay / product intelligence
Business model
B2B SaaS
Funding
Stage
Pre-seed
Total raised
$1.3M
Latest round
Pre-seed · Oct 2025
Latest amount
$1.3M
Oct 2025 · Long Journey Ventures
People & investors
Leadership
Founder & CEO
Work & culture
Solo-founder, YC-backed, shipping-focused startup with a strong AI-assisted building ethos. Public hiring signals emphasize direct founder involvement and fast execution, but no formal benefits page was found.
Visa sponsorship
Limited
Compensation
No public compensation policy is posted on the careers page. A founder hiring post mentioned a founding full-stack engineer role and appeared to reference unlimited Claude Code credits plus a $120k-$160k range, but this is not formally published on the site.
Product & market
Pricing
Not publicly disclosed
Differentiators
- —Automatically turns session replays into replay-backed bugs and UX insights instead of raw playback only.
- —Can ingest existing data from PostHog, Amplitude, Datadog, and Sentry or record directly with the Lucent SDK.
- —Supports bug-report routing into Slack, Gmail, Linear, and MCP-enabled AI coding workflows.
- —Uses rrweb-based, privacy-first recording and masks text by default.
- —Supports both web apps and React Native mobile apps.
- —Positions itself as product-intelligence and engineering-handoff infrastructure rather than generic analytics.
Technology
rrweb
Lucent SDK
React Native
PostHog
Amplitude
Datadog
Sentry
Slack
Linear
Gmail
MCP
Claude Code
Cursor
ChatGPT
Windsurf
Customers
Finta
Happenstance
Julius
Productlane
Reducto
Trainwell
Vitau
Cardinal
CatchBack Cards
The Hog
InventoryQuant
Den
Cardboard
Competitors
LogRocket
FullStory
Hotjar
Microsoft Clarity
Mouseflow
Inspectlet
OpenReplay
FullSession
Datadog
Zipy
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
US$500K-$2M ARR (third-party estimate)
Estimated monthly visits
13.3K
Traffic estimate as of Jun 2026
Latest news
Capital Brief · Oct 2025
Profiles Lucent’s solo-founder fundraising story, the 36-hour pre-seed close, and the company’s training-data-for-browser-agents pivot.
Startup Daily · Oct 2025
Reports Lucent’s oversubscribed pre-seed, investor list, Melbourne origin, and planned move to San Francisco.
Overnight Success · Oct 2025
Describes Lucent’s browser-agent training-data thesis, investor backing, and Alisa Wu’s founder background.
Y Combinator
YC launch page for the product, describing automated replay analysis, free-session trial, and early customer usage.
Jobs and careers at Lucent
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