Franziska Drauz
CEO · Lexstream
Franziska leads Lexstream. She has spent her career at the intersection of European regulation, technology policy, and legal product — building tools that help practitioners read the law without drowning in it.
About Lexstream
Compliance, beautifully made.
Who would have ever known it was even possible? We tailor the noise to your areas of expertise — cutting through the noise to deliver only information that actually matters to your practice.
Our manifesto
We believe that compliance deserves better — to be visually appealing, tailor-made, classy. Out with the boring ways; in with information that actually matters.
Lexstream, founding principles · 2024
Origin · 2024
How we started
Lexstream was built because one of us couldn't keep up.
Francisco de Abreu Duarte, one of our founders, had a very practical problem. As a scholar working at the intersection of law and technology, he was struggling to keep track of the legislation, judgments, and regulatory developments that were reshaping his field on a weekly basis.
"What was missing was a way to read only the legal developments that mattered."
There were enough sources. There was enough writing. There was, in fact, far too much of all of it. What was missing was a way to read only the law that mattered to him — and to read it on his own terms, on his own schedule, in his own jurisdictions.
So Francisco built something. First for himself, then for his colleagues, then — through Lexstream — for every legal professional facing the same flood of information.
That tool became Lexstream. It is still developed, every week, by a team of legal scholars and compliance experts who use it themselves — because we still believe that the best legal product is the one its makers refuse to live without.
Three principles for a compliance practice that doesn't feel like one.
Everything we ship — every classifier, every digest, every Custom Stream — is measured against these three rules.
01
Tailored, not exhaustive
No one needs all of the law. Everyone needs the law that affects their next decision. We classify, score, and filter so that your feed reflects your practice — not the entire legal stack.
02
Read, don't receive
A digest you can't skim is a digest you didn't read. We design every briefing — Morning Brief, weekly summary, alert — for the five-minute window before your first meeting.
03
Style is a feature
Compliance tools have looked the same since the early 2000s. We think a beautiful interface makes legal work easier to sustain — and we treat typography, rhythm, and pace as first-class engineering concerns.
The people
Legal scholars and compliance experts who use what they build.
Lexstream is led by Franziska Drauz alongside a small team of researchers, engineers, and practitioners working across Lisbon, Berlin, and Brussels.
Francisco de Abreu Duarte, PhD
Co-founder · Research
Legal scholar in law & technology, and the original author of Lexstream. Francisco still curates the Morning Brief for Law & Tech and shapes how the platform classifies new regulatory areas.
Norberto Andrade, PhD
CSO · Strategy
ex-Meta
Chief Strategy Officer at Lexstream. Previously Global Privacy Policy Lead at Meta, where he spent nearly a decade shaping policy on AI, identity, and emerging technologies — bringing that operator's perspective to how Lexstream understands tech regulation.
And an amazing and lovely team of designers, developers and friends
Legal infrastructure · since 2024
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One company
Intelligence and training in one place.
Lexstream is a legal-technology company. We build infrastructure for legal information at European scale — the ingestion pipelines, classifiers, and reading interfaces that turn 500+ disparate sources into a single, coherent, jurisdiction-aware feed.
That intelligence is one half of what we do. The other is Lexstream Academy, where the same expertise becomes training your team can actually finish — so knowing what changed and knowing what to do about it stop living in different places.
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