Lutra AI
AI agent platform that automated SaaS workflows across Gmail, Slack, Sheets, etc. using natural-language instructions compiled into durable playbooks. Founded by ex-Google/Facebook engineers; raised seed funding 2024. Discontinued: lutra.ai now states support for Lutra has been discontinued (seen 2026-10-27).
Archived · Verified 2026-10-29 · fresh as of 2026-10-29 · 37 cited facts, 1 with a third-party source · 1 recorded change · Suggest a correction
At a glance
- Tier
- T2
- Section
- Computer-use & desktop agents
- Created
- 2023 (founded) vendor fix
- Latest release
- not applicable — not OSS fix
- License
- not applicable — not OSS fix
- GitHub
- not applicable — no GitHub repo fix
- Pricing
- Free tier + Plus ($20/mo) + Team / Enterprise vendor fix
- Funding
- Seed round 2024 (a16z + others reported) third-party fix
- Freshness
- 2026-10-29 fix
- Layer
- agent-infra repo fix
- Licensing
- commercial vendor fix
When to use
Optimised for: SaaS-stitching playbooks (Gmail / Slack / Sheets)
Anti-fit: Knowledge-worker SMB focus; not for autonomous web browsing or desktop control
Pros & cons
Pros
Strong founder credentials; SOC 2 Type I; clean playbook abstraction; prosumer pricing.
Cons
Closed-source; SMB / prosumer scope; no programmatic API at launch tier.
Claims & capabilities
Founded by ex-Google/Meta engineers; OAuth integrations with 50+ SaaS apps; SOC 2 Type I as of 2024
Technical surface
- API surface
- Web app; programmatic API on roadmap
- Backend storage
- Playbook + run state in Lutra cloud DB
- Deployment
- Cloud only
- Embedding model
- not applicable — not a memory product
- Multi-tenancy
- Multi-tenant cloud
- MCP
- searched not found
- A2A
- searched not found
- OpenTelemetry
- searched not found
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Sources (36 cited facts, 1 third-party)
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- What it is AI agent platform for SaaS automations (Gmail/Slack/Sheets) vendor
- What it does & what's distinct AI agent platform that automated SaaS workflows across Gmail, Slack, Sheets, etc. using … vendor
- Claims / benefits Founded by ex-Google/Meta engineers; OAuth integrations with 50+ SaaS apps; SOC 2 Type I… vendor
- Modalities text vendor
- Created 2023 (founded) vendor
- Mindshare AI Engineer Summit demos; growing prosumer / SMB user base vendor
- Funding Seed round 2024 (a16z + others reported) third-party
- Customers / scale SMB knowledge workers; vertical templates (ops, sales) vendor
- Pricing Free tier + Plus ($20/mo) + Team / Enterprise vendor
- Compliance SOC 2 Type I vendor
- Data handling OAuth tokens stored; opt-out from training vendor
- Deployment Cloud only vendor
- HQ US vendor
- Founders / pedigree Jiquan Ngiam (ex-Google Brain), Wenfeng Xia (CEO) vendor
- API surface Web app; programmatic API on roadmap vendor
- Backend storage Playbook + run state in Lutra cloud DB vendor
- Multi-tenancy Multi-tenant cloud vendor
- Encryption TLS + AES-256 at rest vendor
- SSO / RBAC SSO on Team / Enterprise tiers vendor
- Versioning Playbooks versioned in app vendor
- Tombstoning User-initiated delete vendor
- Namespace primitives per-workspace / per-user vendor
- Contradiction handling Human-arbitrate via playbook edits vendor
- Forgetting policy Retention configurable; delete on request vendor
- Webhooks / events Webhooks for run completion vendor
- Import / export Playbooks export to text vendor
- Validated verticals ops, sales, RevOps, recruiting (SMB) vendor
- Time to running <10min (sign-up + OAuth) vendor
- Anti-fit Knowledge-worker SMB focus; not for autonomous web browsing or desktop control vendor
- Optimised for SaaS-stitching playbooks (Gmail / Slack / Sheets) vendor
- Adjacent infrastructure OAuth providers; Anthropic / OpenAI; Google Workspace vendor
- Pros Strong founder credentials; SOC 2 Type I; clean playbook abstraction; prosumer pricing. vendor
- Cons Closed-source; SMB / prosumer scope; no programmatic API at launch tier. vendor
- Project & sources lutra.ai; lutra.ai/about; crunchbase.com/organization/lutra-ai vendor
- licensing-bucket commercial vendor
- taxonomy-three-layer-rollup agent-infra repo
What changed
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- 2026-10-27
- Lifecycle first recorded as “archived”
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- OpenAI GPT family (GPT-5 / GPT-4o / o3 / o4) depends on at runtime — adjacent-infrastructure cell: OAuth providers; Anthropic / OpenAI; Google Workspace