The Lexos suite is centered around using Lexomic methods to analyze texts, approaching the humanities-based goals of identifying authorship and uncovering textual lineage with the power of modern computing and advanced statistical techniques. The Lexomic approach 'normalizes' texts, by reducing them to their most basic components: words. These words can then be evaluated for frequency and variation, allowing the user to discover anomalies within their texts that may point to changes in authorship, or perhaps to a different set of reference material used by the writer.

It is important to note that Lexomic methods and use of the Lexos suite do not replace traditional humanities scholarship, but rather work alongside and in conjunction with it. All the data gained from dendrograms and Rolling Window Analysis is utterly worthless without the academic background required to actually explain the variations found within the text. The role of the Lexos suite is to find these variations, thereby opening up new avenues of research and questioning.