Nathan Baschez is a founder, designer and engineer building AI tools. His work includes Lex, an AI writing application, and Roughdraft, an interface for reviewing and revising Markdown with coding agents.[1][2]
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Baschez designed and built Product Hunt’s first version in 2013. He later created the coding-education tool that became General Assembly’s Dash, co-founded the storytelling app Hardbound and led product at Gimlet. As Substack’s first employee, he built core publishing features. He then co-founded Every and wrote Divinations, a column about technology and business strategy.[1]
Contributions
From Lex to collaborative agent tools
Lex began as a side project inside Every in September 2022, using GPT-3 to support writing. It became a separate company led by Baschez. His newer work includes Thoughtful, a shared environment where teams can work with agents using files, skills, memory and mini-apps. These projects connect his experience building publishing products with tools for writing and coordinating work with AI.[1][2]
Reviewing an agent’s draft
Roughdraft gives a person and a coding agent a shared interface for reviewing Markdown. Comments and suggested edits attach to specific passages, so document feedback stays with the draft. Baschez describes the project as open source and local first.[2]
Tools, writing & talks
Tools
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Roughdraftroughdraft.mdA local document interface for reviewing Markdown with coding agents through comments and suggested changes.
Start with Roughdraft when using a coding agent to revise Markdown. Try commenting on a passage and reviewing a suggested edit before adopting a wider agent workspace.
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