# 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 ## Quotes <!-- QueryToSerialize: LIST FROM #type/quote AND [[Nathan Baschez]] WHERE public_note = true SORT file.name ASC --> ## Books <!-- QueryToSerialize: LIST FROM #type/book AND [[Nathan Baschez]] WHERE public_note = true SORT file.name ASC --> ## 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