Product and engineering leaders face a constant battle: making crucial real-time decisions amidst a sea of fragmented, reactive, and disconnected progress data. The old ways—chasing updates, endlessly pinging teams on Slack, digging through Jira, and enduring endless status meetings—simply aren’t cutting it. This struggle leaves product and engineering leads wasting precious hours on manual updates, while critical risks silently slip through the cracks. This crucial challenge is precisely what Luna AI, powered by its robust partnership with MongoDB, is designed to overcome.
Introducing Luna AI: Your intelligent program manager
Luna AI was founded to tackle this exact problem, empowering product and engineering leaders with the visibility and context they need, without burying their PMs in busy work. Imagine having an AI program manager dedicated to giving you clear insights into goals, roadmap ROI, initiative progress, and potential risks throughout the entire product lifecycle.
Luna AI makes this a reality by intelligently summarizing data from your existing tools like Jira and Slack. It can even automatically generate launch and objective and key result (OKR) status updates, create your roadmap, and analyze your Jira sprints, drastically reducing the need for manual busywork.
From concept to command center: The evolution of Luna AI
Luna AI’s Co-founder, Paul Debahy, a seasoned product leader with experience at Google, personally felt the pain of fragmented data during his time as a CPO. Inspired by Google’s internal LaunchCal, which provided visibility into upcoming launches, Luna AI initially began as a launch management tool. However, a key realization quickly emerged: Customers primarily needed help “managing up.” This insight led to a pivotal shift, focusing Luna AI on vertical management—communicating status, linking execution to strategy, and empowering leaders, especially product leaders, to drive decisions.
Today, Luna AI has evolved into a sophisticated AI-driven insights platform. Deep Jira integration and advanced LLM modules have transformed it from a simple tracker into a strategic visibility layer. Luna AI now provides essential capabilities like OKR tracking, risk detection, resource and cost analysis, and smart status summaries. Luna AI believes product leadership is increasingly strategic, aiming to be the system of record for outcomes, not just tasks. Its mission: to be everyone’s AI program manager, delivering critical strategy and execution insights for smarter decision-making.
The power under the hood: Building with MongoDB Atlas
Luna AI’s robust technology stack includes Node.js, Angular, and the latest AI/LLM models. Its infrastructure leverages Google Cloud and, crucially, MongoDB Atlas as its primary database.
When selecting a data platform, Luna AI prioritized flexibility, rapid iteration, scalability, and security. Given the dynamic, semi-structured data ingested from diverse sources like Jira, Slack, and even meeting notes, a platform that could handle this complexity was essential. Key requirements included seamless tenant separation, robust encryption, and minimal operational overhead.
MongoDB proved to be the perfect fit for several reasons. The developer-friendly experience was a major factor, as was the flexible schema of its document database, which naturally accommodated Luna AI’s complex and evolving data model. This flexibility was vital for tracking diverse information such as Jira issues, OKRs, AI summaries, and Slack insights, enabling quick adaptation and iteration. MongoDB also offered effortless support for the startup’s multi-tenant architecture.
Scaling with MongoDB Atlas has been smooth and fast, according to Luna AI. Atlas effortlessly scaled as the company added features and onboarded workspaces ranging from startups to enterprises. The monitoring dashboard has been invaluable, offering insights that helped identify performance bottlenecks early. In fact, index suggestions from the dashboard directly led to significant improvements to speed. Debahy even remarked, “Atlas’s built-in insights make it feel like we have a DB ops engineer on the team.”
Luna AI relies heavily on Atlas’s global clusters and automated scaling. The monitoring and alerting features provide crucial peace of mind, especially during launches or data-intensive tasks like Jira AI epic and sprint summarization. The monitoring dashboard was instrumental in resolving high-latency collections by recommending the right indexes. Furthermore, in-house backups are simple, fast, and reliable, with painless restores offering peace of mind. Migrating from serverless to dedicated instances was seamless and downtime-free. Dedicated multi-tenant support allows for unlimited, isolated databases per customer. Auto-scaling is plug-and-play, with Atlas handling scaling across all environments. Security features like data-at-rest encryption and easy access restriction management per environment are also vital benefits. The support team has consistently been quick, responsive, and proactive.
A game-changer for startups: The MongoDB for Startups program
Operating on a tight budget as a bootstrapped and angel-funded startup, Luna AI found the MongoDB for Startups program to be a true game changer. It stands out as one of the most founder-friendly programs the company has encountered. The Atlas credits completely covered the database costs, empowering the team to test, experiment, and even make mistakes without financial pressure. This freedom allowed them to scale without worrying about database expenses or meticulously tracking every compute and resource expenditure.
Access to technical advisors and support was equally crucial, helping Luna AI swiftly resolve issues ranging from load management to architectural decisions and aiding in designing a robust data model from the outset. The program also opened doors to a valuable startup community, fostering connections and feedback.
Luna AI’s vision: The future of product leadership
Looking ahead, Luna AI is focused on two key areas:
Building a smarter, more contextual insights layer for strategy and execution.
Creating a stakeholder visibility layer that requires no busy work from product managers.
Upcoming improvements include predictive risk alerts spanning Jira, Slack, and meeting notes. They are also developing ROI-based roadmap planning and prioritization, smart AI executive status updates, deeper OKR traceability, and ROI-driven tradeoff analysis.
Luna AI firmly believes that the role of product leadership is becoming increasingly strategic. With the support of programs like MongoDB for Startups, they are excited to build a future where Luna AI is the definitive system of record for outcomes.
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