Lua AI- the unified agent platform for mid-market enterprises

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Problem
We disagree with nearly every aspect of how AI solutions are being sold to enterprise clients today. Large consultancy budgets, big forward deployed teams, inventive outcomes based pricing models that feed off labour budgets. Specialised platform after specialised platform.

It feels like a transitory arbitrage opportunity; as an enterprise you get the bumper sticker but no durable advantage.

Lua makes it easy for teams to build out their own intelligent agent layer, leveraging insights and driving outcomes across their business without the $1m+ consulting contracts, tool fatigue or outcomes tax.

We want companies to own their own outcomes - not rent them.

Our Platform
Lua makes it simple to roll out agents that are deeply integrated, measurable, and under your control across your entire business. Our platform abstracts all of the complexity required to launch enterprise grade agents and combines it with the tools needed for these agents to succeed in the real world.

Developer docs available here: https://docs.heylua.ai/overview

Journey
We kicked off in March this year with a focus on building sales and support agents for SMBs that were integrated into their revenue engine and could be deployed in a couple of clicks across all their channels (web, app, instagram, messenger, whatsapp, etc). We built 300+ of these agents and quickly realised most partners wanted custom skills and deeper integrations to differentiate their agentic experience from their competitors and to truly succeed in the real world.

To solve this we built an abstraction layer that lets teams create their own skills and integrations on top of Lua that has quickly become our primary product.

How We Grow
Distribution is where we win. We are a small team scaling simultaneously across the US, EMEA and South East Asia. We grow through developer agencies and channel partners, enabling distribution without a large enterprise sales motion or scaled forward deployed teams.

Some of the things people are building on Lua:

• Digital banks are re-designing their core around Lua’s intelligence layer
• On-demand delivery businesses use Lua to transition from app-based to chat first commerce
• Growth agencies are building inventive new ways to pre-qualify leads and optimise funnel performance
• Hotel booking engines are rolling out booking and concierge agents to their clients
• Large family businesses are weaving Lua into all of their existing systems and tools to automate processes and aggregate insights across their business verticals.

The Team
Lua was founded by @Lorcan O Cathain (CEO) and @Stefan Kruger (CTO)- we’ve spent our careers scaling technology companies across emerging markets.

Asks:

• We’d love you to build on Lua and get your feedback!