Lursa AI: a bot crew for product work and shipping
An AI crew that handles product, engineering, marketing, and publishing for founders.
Problem it solvesFounders need product, engineering, and marketing help without hiring a full team.
Joseph P. Zanini III says he runs Lursa AI with bots as the crew. He reports no paying users yet, and says the bots are already arguing, approving, and shipping.
Joseph P. Zanini III
@joezanini
I just hired a PM. She’s a Grok bot named Connie. I’ve been having too much fun running Lursa AI with bots as the crew. Debbie is the engineer. @lursa_ai MCP + Cursor SDK. CI/CD through an AWS IAM role. The Librarian keeps the graph library fresh and writes diffs straight into Neo4j Aura over MCP. I found open-source product-management repos, then had Devy build Connie a “brain” — a local directory she treats as long-term memory. Those repos stay off the Lursa library. No clear Apache/MIT license, no graph. Strict rule. Then I had Grok write the founding-PM prompt, pasted it into a new Grok bot, and named her Connie after a PM I actually liked working with. Honest bit: still no paying users. Backend isn’t free. If this doesn’t get profitable, I can’t keep the lights on. I dropped Connie into a group chat with Devy, Voice, Publisher, Scout, and the Librarian. They introduced themselves. They’re already arguing, approving, and shipping. Marketing, engineering, product — all bots for now. The goal is still humans on payroll. #buildinpublic #startup #AIstartup #LursaAI #Grok #AIagents #MCP #indiehackers #solopreneur #foundersjourney #productmanagement #developertools #Neo4j #sideproject


