Alisa Rae

CEO @ Lucent (YC W26) | Forbes 30u30

Australia

About

I've watched more session replays than anyone I know. I started my career as a Founding Engineer at MagicBrief (acq by Canva). At 21, I left to bootstrap and sell my first startup in EdTech. That's where I learned the team watching users most closely usually wins. After that, I joined Atlassian to build Jira. Across all three, watching replays was how I found the bugs users never reported and the friction they couldn't articulate. It's the highest-signal work in product, and also the most tedious. Lucent is automating my old job at scale. It watches every session replay and tells engineering + product teams what's breaking, what's confusing users, and how people actually use what they built. We've now watched millions of sessions for AI-native teams like Reducto, Browser Use, Mastra, and Julius. If you’d like to learn more, send me a message ☺️

Experience

  • CEO at Lucent (YC W26)
    2025 - Present · 1 yr 7 mos

    An AI that watches your session replays to find where users are struggling. Backed by Horizon, Browder Capital, Long Journey, Weekend Fund, Firestreak, Y Combinator and more.

  • Software Engineer at Atlassian
    2024 - 2025 · 1 yr

    Worked on the rich text editor used across Jira, Bitbucket, and Confluence.

  • Co-Founder at Stella AI (Acquired)
    2024 - 2024 · Less than a year

    - AI tutor for the HSC

  • Founding Engineer at MagicBrief
    2023 - 2024 · 1 yr

    - Employee #2 - Acquired by Canva

  • Software Engineer at Canopy Study
    2022 - 2023 · 1 yr