How Arclight Scaled Revenue 3x in 12 Months

Arclight's engineering team of five was spending roughly 60% of their time maintaining internal tooling instead of shipping product. Their data pipeline relied on three separate vendors, none of which talked to each other cleanly. Every new customer integration required weeks of manual work.

Sales couldn't get accurate pipeline data without pulling reports from four different dashboards. Finance closed books manually each month, a process that took two full weeks. Leadership had no single source of truth for company performance.

The core problem wasn't ambition — Arclight had plenty of that. It was infrastructure. They needed a platform that could grow with them, not one they had to constantly outgrow.

We worked with Arclight's CTO to map out every internal workflow — from data ingestion to customer-facing reporting — and identified the ten highest-impact areas where Lucent could replace custom tooling immediately.

The migration happened in phases over eight weeks. First, we unified their data layer, connecting all upstream sources through Lucent's integration layer. This alone cut their engineering maintenance burden in half. Next, we rebuilt their reporting stack on Lucent's dashboard primitives, giving every team — sales, finance, product — a shared, real-time view of the business.

In the final phase, we helped Arclight build two new customer-facing features directly on the Lucent API. Features that previously would have taken three months were shipped in three weeks.

The results exceeded what even Arclight's leadership had projected. Revenue tripled. The finance team now closes books in two days instead of two weeks. Engineering spends more than 80% of their time on product rather than maintenance.

Critically, Arclight was able to go upmarket. With cleaner data and faster reporting, they landed their first enterprise contracts — deals that previously would have required custom implementations they couldn't afford to build.