# Nathan Baschez
Founder and CEO of **Lex** (lex.page), an AI-native writing tool that started as a side project while he was at Every and now has 300K+ users. Lex raised a $2.8M seed in August 2023 led by True Ventures, where Nathan is also an AI scout. Based in Los Angeles. Builds for writers; thinks in product narratives.
His self-description (X): *"Founder of @lexdotpage. AI scout at @trueventures. Previously: co-founder @Every, first employee @SubstackInc. Always: @SoniaBaschez."*
## Track record
- **Product Hunt** (2013) — co-created and built the first version
- **Scratchpad.io** — coding tool acquired by General Assembly, later turned into Dash
- **Hardbound** (TechStars Boulder) — co-founder; visual storytelling app; *Fast Company* top-10 app of 2016
- **Gimlet Media** — Head of Product; shipped an award-winning Alexa Skill
- **Substack** — first employee; built the email-capture flow and the internal "Baschez Score" for spotting promising writers
- **Every** — co-founder; wrote the weekly **Divinations** column on tech and business strategy
- **Lex** (lex.page) — current company; AI writing tool
## What he's building now
[[RoughDraft]] — open-source, local-first markdown reviewer for working with AI agents, released under his company's Lex-Inc GitHub org. CriticMarkup-based suggested-edits workflow over plain `.md` files. The bet: as coding agents write more, humans need a tool for *reviewing* drafts, not just producing them.
He's publicly focused on "building and using AI agents, and trying to understand what the message of this new medium is" (paraphrased from his site).
## Writing
- **Today Nathan Learned** — personal Substack (https://nathan.substack.com/); irregular cadence; recent posts cover F1 broadcasts, AI moats, cultural evolution
- **Divinations** at Every — strategy column (archive on Every)
- Personal site: https://www.nathanbaschez.com/
## Why he's interesting
Three threads worth watching:
1. **The Substack → Lex arc**: built the bottom of the funnel for one writer-platform; now building the editor at the top of the funnel
2. **AI scout at True Ventures**: well-positioned to spot the next wave of AI-product founders
3. **RoughDraft thesis**: that agent-written prose needs a markdown-native review surface, not a Google-Docs clone. Worth interrogating
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## Related
- [[RoughDraft]]
## References
- Personal site: https://www.nathanbaschez.com/
- X: https://x.com/nbaschez
- GitHub: https://github.com/nbashaw
- Substack: https://nathan.substack.com/
- Lex: https://lex.page