Lutra AI

Introducing Lutra, an AI Agent that generates and runs workflows for you. Lutra first converses with you to understand your goals, and then generates and runs code that integrates with the apps you use. Lutra has crafted an environment for AI generated code to run in a production-ready setting. By taking a code-first approach, we leverage the best practices from software engineering for: 1. Security 2. Maintenance 3. Governance We're excited to announce $3.8M in funding from Coatue, Hustle Fund, Maven and WVV Capital, together with Angel Investors that include Andrej Karpathy, Jeff Dean, Scott Belsky, Quoc V. Le, Tom Willerer, Brian Shultz, Vijay Karunamurthy, John Ciancutti, Irwan Bello, Keith Peiris, Kah Seng Tay, & more! Sign up today at https://lutra.ai Follow us for on X/Twitter at https://lnkd.in/gBx4Tpzn for updates Join our discord at https://lnkd.in/gZZfJqSy

Just made an AI agent that helps with social media! Give it a trending Youtube video, and it figures out the highlights, writes a post, and fact checks it for you. Here's how it works: 1. It retrieves the transcript for the Youtube video, then sends it to an AI model to figure out the key highlights from the video. 2. It uses the key highlights to draft LinkedIn and X/Twitter posts for you using another prompt tuned for writing posts. 3. It looks up facts on the web and fact checks the content, so that you can be confident in posting this. 4. It puts all the above into a Google doc for you to easily review at a glance. Comment interested below and I'll send you the playbook! You can remix it easily and adapt it to how you work. Made this with Tony Crisp ?? today in just a few mins! Exciting to see how far we've come with AI being able to help us quickly automate work.

We made an AI agent that helps us figure out who's at a conference and what they are talking about. Great way to get leads and start conversations. Here's how: 1. Find an AI platform that is able to get social media posts; often posts can be publicly accessed, sometimes platforms have deeper integrations into the social media apps. 2. You can ask the AI to find posts based on a keyword search, just as how you would be searching for posts, say on LinkedIn about a certain topic. 3. Ask the AI to save those posts to a Google sheet - the most advanced AIs should be able to do this effectively today. The best ones will be able to also get the reactions, comments, and likes into new worksheets. 4. Ask the AI to make new columns for short intros based on their post content and your background. Here's a prompt you can use with a platform like Lutra AI -- "Find 20 recent posts on LinkedIn about "HumanX". Put that in to a google sheet." and viola, you should see a Google Sheet come up. Comment interested and I'll send you the playbook!

Most organizations aren't actually using agents yet - but some are ahead of the game, here's one example in a recent Section article -- Supermoon, an independent agency, uses AI Agents for business outreach. They have been using agents to significantly increase their reach and manpower by creating target lists, monitoring social media, and identifying companies in need of agency support. David Freas estimates these agents on Lutra AI save him at least 4 hours of work a week – and that the third will save him an additional 4, once it’s working!

?????? AI Assistant Playbook using Lutra AI for Freelancers and Agencies: Purpose: More brand visibility, credibility, and inbound leads - all without manually scrolling through Reddit, Inc. for hours. Problem: - People don't have an idea of Reddit as a source of Branding and Lead Generation - Freelancers and agencies don't have time for self-branding - Lack of imagination for consolidation marketing - No human resource for marketing. Here is how it works: - The assistant will identify specific criteria fulfilling Bubble.io related Reddit posts every week - The assistant will update the Google sheet with Reddit post details - Update you on the slack about new posts in the sheet with sheet link - In the sheet, there is a column for reply. Once you write a reply, it will automatically post it on Reddit and mark the Reply Posted? Yes The Best Part? ?? It runs without me spending hours scrolling ?? Helps build authority & trust in my niche ?? Brings organic leads with zero ad spend I have made this for bubble.io, you can make this for your niche as well. #bubble #AIAssitant #reddit #branding #marketing #automation #lutra

What use cases are people using AI for these days? We analyzed playbooks created on the Lutra platform in the last 2 months. Playbooks in Lutra are automations: think “agentic AI machines” that can be scheduled or triggered any time to handle tasks reliably. Here’s a quick look at how teams are using them: ? Web Scraping & Data Extraction: Compiling competitor price lists to organizing leads. ? Logistics & Order Management: Streamline shipment tracking, purchase order matching, and invoice processing. ? Communication & Scheduling: Automate follow-up emails, meeting setups, and calendar integrations. ? Prospecting & Outreach: Automate lead generation and targeted email outreach to accelerate sales pipelines and business development efforts. We're seeing playbooks to handle high-volume data extraction and web scraping, and also those for investing in automation for logistics, finance, and communication. It's exciting to see these creative use cases in action, and we’d love to hear how you’re automating daily tasks too. If you want the deeper breakdown, comment the the post or send me a DM. Let’s make work a little more hands-free!

What is the impact of DeepSeek's results to startups? Here's my take: there are broadly 3 layers in the stack: (1) infrastructure providers, (2) model providers, (3) applications. DeepSeek is a boon for applications, serious competition for model providers, and a boon for infrastructure. ??? Infrastructure: GPUs, Data Centers - think Nvidia, AWS, GCloud, Azure. ?? Model Providers: Open AI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, DeepSeek ?? Applications: AI Startups, Agent builders, Consumer Apps. Applications/startups now have more options. DeepSeek shows a new direction of training and serving models that is potentially much cheaper - models are a cost center for startups, and this is going to be great for innovation and margins. Model providers: the secret sauce is out. OpenAI was trying to keep the reasoning traces hidden (so much so that even developers cannot see them!), and now DeepSeek is openly revealing the methods, reasoning traces, and we're understanding so much more about how these models work. They are the "Open" AI. Infrastructure: Jevon's paradox is going to kick in. Cheaper/faster AI -> more AI deployments -> more infrastructure. We've seen this in many industries: energy (electricity), LED lighting, HVAC systems, compute and storage. If a technology dramatically makes our lives better, we want more of it, and the cheaper it gets, the faster the market grows.

I'm on the freeCodeCamp podcast! Had a great time talking to Quincy Larson about AI - how we got here, what's working, what's not. Tune in for my perspective on AI, agents, and what's working. Thanks Quincy Larson for having me on the show! Link in comments ??

Dynamic UX with AI agents! We are introducing new UX to make it intuitive when the AI agent works on a large spreadsheet. ?? We heard feedback from users that when the AI agent starts to do lots of work, it was hard to understand the time/cost estimates and see what it was doing! We just rolled out a new feature that dynamically renders a live table view that shows you exactly what the agent is working on. The live table is embedded in another chat message - it's a dynamic interface element that is determined on the fly depending on the conversation. This is one step towards what we think the future with AI looks like: Software where the user interface comes to you, instead of having to click around to find the right button that's hidden in the platform.

We kicked off the new year with some incredible feedback from a Lutra user, and it’s moments like these that remind me why we’re building this. Building a product that helps businesses of all sizes leverage AI fully, by having access to tools that feel intuitive, powerful, and actually useful, has been the dream from day one. It’s not always easy (startup life!), but feedback like this reminds me that the effort is worth it. Lutra exists to empower people: to save time, automate the mundane, and focus on what really matters. To everyone who’s tried Lutra, shared it with a friend, or given us feedback: thank you. You’re helping shape something meaningful, and we’re so grateful for your support. If you haven’t yet, come see what we’re building Lutra AI