Built in BerlinDistributed teamMVP+ shipping

Making trustworthy AI easier to deliver.

lextrace started from a simple belief: AI teams should not have to choose between moving fast and being accountable. Governance should become part of delivery work, not a late-stage scramble.

How we work

Distributed team · shared operating rhythm

MVP+

We know each other beyond slides.

Parts of the team have worked together professionally, co-founded before, and spent enough real time together to know how we handle pressure, ambiguity, and momentum.

Distributed by design.

lextrace is anchored in Berlin, with founders and engineering roots across Türkiye and Europe-facing networks. We are used to working across borders, cultures, and regulated markets.

Built around delivery reality.

Our shared background sits across product, engineering, operations, commercial strategy, and AI delivery, exactly where Governance, Risk, and Compliance work usually gets lost in translation.

Why lextrace exists

Trust breaks where ownership disappears.

AI governance often fails in the handoff between product ambition, engineering reality, legal interpretation, security evidence, and compliance review. lextrace exists to make that chain visible, owned, and reusable.

We saw the gap

AI was moving into products, operations, and customer-facing workflows faster than governance work could keep up.

We chose the use case

The AI use case became our atomic unit because purpose, data, ownership, evidence, and legal exposure all meet there.

We moved beyond checklists

The product direction became a living trust record: who owns it, what rules apply, what proof exists, and when it must be re-checked.

Toward a GRC agent

MVP+ is the starting point. The larger vision is a Governance, Risk, and Compliance agent for trustworthy AI delivery across teams, frameworks, and regulated workflows.

The team

A founding team with shared history, not just shared ambition.

Some of us worked together professionally. Some of us co-founded and experimented together before. Some of us simply spent enough time together to know we enjoy the work and trust each other when things get messy.

Today, lextrace is distributed across Berlin, Istanbul, and the UK, with a cross-border mindset shaped by Europe-facing products, regulated customers, IT business experience, legal/compliance expertise, and global AI governance pressure.

How we got here

Professional trust

We have seen each other operate in real work, not only in founder mode.

Venture muscle

Parts of the team have built or co-founded before, bringing practical scar tissue.

Founder chemistry

We also have fun together, which matters when the road is long.

UK legal advisor

Our legal advisor is based in the UK and brings deep IT business, compliance, and global network experience.

What we stand for

Less compliance theatre. More accountable delivery.

Our principles come from the same place as our product: trust should be practical, evidence-backed, human-reviewed, and reusable across the work teams already do.

Trust over theatre

Responsible AI should be visible in the work: owners, evidence, approvals, and decisions that can be retrieved when needed.

Humans stay accountable

Agents can structure work. Deterministic logic can support decisions. But critical accountability stays with people.

Evidence should be reusable

One use case should not create five separate evidence scrambles for five frameworks, audits, or customer requests.

Innovation needs guardrails

AI teams should move quickly without leaving legal, risk, security, compliance, and engineering to clean up later.

Product doctrine

Agentic where work is complex. Deterministic where decisions must be trusted.

lextrace is not trying to replace professional judgment. We are turning repeated governance work into a clearer operating layer around real AI use cases.

Agent orchestrates

Asks better questions and turns messy input into structured work.

Engine decides

Repeatable logic handles determinate framework outcomes.

Evidence proves

Tasks, artifacts, links, owners, and versions stay connected.

Human approves

Legal, risk, security, compliance, audit, and technical owners stay in the loop.

FAQ

What people usually ask about our story.

Because AI use cases are where regulated teams are feeling the fastest trust gap right now: unclear ownership, scattered evidence, framework pressure, and late review cycles.

Bring one use case

Meet the team through the workflow you actually need to govern.

Bring one real AI use case. We'll help map the owner chain, evidence gaps, approvals, and first reusable trust record.