Overview Lex is the AI first word processor built for writers who take a draft seriously — essayists, journalists, novelists, founders writing their own long form pieces, academics writing outside their journal template — in a category where every other AI writing tool is either a Google Docs plugin bolted on as an afterthought or a Jasper style marketing dashboard that treats prose as a template filling exercise. Founded in 2022 by Nathan Baschez (co founder of Every) and quietly shipped as a side project that outgrew its founders' expectations, Lex sits in the specific gap between the frictionless minimalism of iA Writer and the AI horsepower of ChatGPT — a clean, distraction free editor that happens to have a first class AI collaborator built into the page. What Lex actually does, cleanly stated, is give you a serious writing environment where AI assistance is a first class citizen but never the point. You type a draft in a familiar Google Docs style page. You highlight a paragraph and ask for feedback. You leave a +++ marker and ask Lex to continue the section in your voice. You paste in a brief and let the tool sketch the structure while you write the prose. The AI is there when you need it, invisible when you do not, and — critically — never running in your face with autocomplete suggestions the way Notion AI and Google Docs' Help me write button do. Lex treats the writer as the writer and the…