About
Not just a software company.
A bet that the organizations doing real-world work — the schools, clinics, nonprofits, and community groups that hold society together — deserve the same quality of software as Fortune 500 companies.
Why we exist
The gap is real — and it's been ignored long enough.
Enterprise software is excellent. Consumer software is excellent. But the organizations in between — the ones that run after-school programs, provide healthcare in underserved neighborhoods, or coordinate disaster relief — have been left with tools that don't fit.
They adapt. They build workarounds. They train their staff on systems that make simple tasks complicated. And they accept it, because there's nothing better built for them.
Lexama Labs exists to change that. We build software that fits the way these organizations actually work — without asking them to become technology experts first.
A note from the founder
I come from math and physics — dual degree from UPR Río Piedras, seven-time top placer in Puerto Rico's Calculus Olympics, Blaise Pascal Medal. That background taught me to think from first principles: break down any problem to its core and build back up from there. Years later, I'm still doing exactly that — first as a teacher, then as a quantitative analyst, and now as a founder.
What I saw over and over was that the organizations doing the most important work — schools, clinics, churches, community groups — were running on tools never built for them. They'd patch together spreadsheets and group chats and just accept that this was as good as it gets. I never accepted that.
Lexama Labs is my answer. The name comes from my own last name — this is personal. I still work as a Senior Quantitative Analyst at Popular, building behavioral models across millions of transactions, and every evening and weekend I pour that same analytical rigor into shipping software that actually fits the way these organizations work. Great UX isn't a luxury for them — it's the difference between software that gets used and software that gets abandoned. That conviction is in everything we ship.
Carlos Lezama
Founder & CEO, Lexama Labs
How we work
What we believe
These aren't aspirational values. They're the principles behind every product decision we make.
Software should feel obvious
If a user needs a manual, something is wrong with the software. We design for the first-time user, every time.
Serve the operator, not just the admin
The person using our software is often a teacher, a coordinator, or an office manager — not an IT professional. We build for them.
Build things that last
We don't ship fast and fix later. We take time to understand a problem deeply before we write code.
Go deep before going wide
One vertical done extremely well is more valuable than five verticals done poorly. We earn the right to expand.
Team
The people building Lexama Labs
A solo founder with an AI team that punches far above its headcount — human judgment, paired with agents that handle the heavy lifting.
Carlos Lezama
Founder & CEO
Senior Quantitative Analyst at Popular and founder of Lexama Labs. MSc in Financial Engineering (4.0 GPA), degree in Math & Physics from UPR. Seven-time Calculus Olympiad winner. He builds software that actually works for schools, clinics, and community organizations — because he's been on their side of the table his whole career.
Hermes
AI Orchestrator
The one who keeps everything moving — client communication, research, automations, and daily operations. Built to handle the conversations, the schedules, and the small fires before they become big ones. Reliable, adaptable, and always on.
Claude
AI Engineering Partner
The deep thinker — architecture, complex features, refactoring, and code review at scale. When a problem needs real engineering depth, Claude is the one who takes it apart and builds it back right. Patient, thorough, and relentless about quality.
Want to work with us?
We're building software that matters. If that sounds like work you want to do, let's talk.