Announcing Lex for Teams
Hey! Nathan from Lex here.
Good news: you can now use Lex with your team! It’s easy. Just make a folder at https://lex.page and invite people to join.
“Why would I do that?”
I get it. You probably already use Google Docs at work. You can’t be sending random software invites around. You need business reasons.
Far be it from me to tell you how to run things, but here are some considerations you may find helpful as you decide whether to keep reading this email, and/or propose to your team that you give Lex a try:
Lex is built by writers to give deep feedback on your writing. Other AI writing tools are designed to generate bulk content or give generic “rewrites.” I don’t wanna say they’re soulless, but… Lex is built different. We honor the magic of writing. Think about it: writing is pulling together a string of words from thin air that can change the world. AI is just a means to an end. Lex gives high-quality, useful suggestions, no matter whether you’re an awful writer or George Saunders. It works for everything from brainstorming overall structure to polishing individual sentences.
Lex gives you the most control over the AI. A lot of people think AI writing tools suck, but it’s usually because either 1) they used a cheap AI model to save a buck, or 2) the prompts were generic and bad, and you have no way to change them. With Lex, you can choose from the best models, and see the prompts we wrote to guide the AI to giving you good feedback. You also can duplicate them, edit them, and create your own. Importantly, you can also share your prompts with your team!
Lex has a fluid interface for collaborating with AI. Sure, you can go back and forth between ChatGPT and Google Docs, but that is a pain. And what do you do if you want the AI to give copy edits over an entire document? How can you see what it changed? Can it explain why? Chat is not a good interface for this. In Lex, with our Checks feature, you can have the AI edit for brevity, clarity, grammar, and more, and it shows up as highlights in your document—like Grammarly, but with much deeper suggestions, and not in your face all the time when you don’t want it to be.
Also, for what it’s worth, a lot of people tell me they just think Lex is nicely designed and enjoyable to write in.
“How does it work?”
There are a few main features of Lex. They are simple, yet flexible, and powerful when combined.
Ask Lex - chat with the AI about your draft. Great for high-level feedback, rewrites, brainstorming, research, and more. You can also highlight any text and click “Ask Lex” to chat about a specific part of your doc.
Checks - line edits from AI for brevity, grammar, readability, and more. Just select which checks you want to run and see pink highlights appear in your document. Click them to see the AI’s suggested edit, and explanation for the reason why.
Prompt Builder - create your own re-usable prompts for Ask Lex and Checks, and share them with your team.
Here’s a video showing how they all come together (feel free to share this with your team if they want a quick idea of what Lex is like):
“Who is it for?”
Anyone who wants to write something really good. If you’re just gonna publish your first draft, you don’t need Lex. But for any piece of text that needs to be polished and revised and made good, Lex is perfect.
For example, Lex is great for: authors, marketers, researchers, managers, Substackers, journalists, screenwriters, speechwriters, and more. Our goal is to make Lex the tool of choice for anyone who wants to write something good.
Here’s what some early teams using Lex are saying:
Rob Haisfield of Websim says, “The Websim team has no real reason to use Google Docs now that we’ve got Lex with team folders. It's an excellent writing tool, lets us riff on our writing w/ Claude, and leaves comments/suggests changes like an infinitely patient editor who I don’t have to bother for feedback. Feels like Cursor for docs.”
Ethan Steinquest of Austin Peay State University says, “Lex has done an amazing job helping our communications team organize and distribute press releases and marketing material. The ability to collaborate within documents and folders, create shared templates and gain custom AI-generated feedback on our writing makes an impact every day in our efforts to tell Austin Peay’s story.”
“How can I get started?”
Two ways:
If you’d like to chat with sales (me), click here to book a time. I’d love to answer any questions, show you around, etc.
If you’re ready to try it now, just go to https://lex.page, create a folder, and invite colleagues to join.
Here’s a gif showing the (simple) process:
“How much does it cost?”
Pricing info here!
“I have a question!”
Sure! Just reply to this email, or book a meeting with me.
—Nathan Baschez, CEO of Lex
PS—If you read this far, maybe you want to apply for a job at Lex? We are hiring a Writer in Residence to help us with a few key things:
Meet with writers, teach them how to use Lex, and get their feedback
Lead outreach to writers and teams for feedback
Build out our prompt library (to make Lex give even better advice and edits)
Write about Lex and the people who use it
Make screencasts showing how to use Lex
(As you may have noticed, we picked the title “Writer in Residence” even though it might be considered more of a “Writer Relations” role. The reason for this is we think the best candidates for this role will have significant writing and editing experience, even though their main job at Lex will not be to write.)
This would be a 3 month contract to start, followed by a full time offer with equity if everything is working well. Since this role will involve a lot of meetings and calls, we’re looking for someone in a timezone between California and Central European time.
The detailed job description is here, and you can click here to apply.