ReferenceLabs — early access
Give your company a single source of truth.
ReferenceLabs captures the documents, conversations, and decisions scattered across your business and turns them into one reliable reference — answers in seconds, and nothing walks out the door when someone leaves.
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The problem
Slack threads.
Old emails.
That one spreadsheet.
Your best person's head.
That's where your company's knowledge lives. When someone leaves, it leaves with them.
How it works
Everything your business touches, in one reference.
Connect what you already use.
Documents, WhatsApp threads, email, spreadsheets, meeting notes — ReferenceLabs gathers them as work happens. No one has to remember to write things down.
It becomes one reference — three kinds of answer.
Facts
Prices, terms, who signed what, which version is current. The details your team re-checks ten times a week.
History
The decisions, the reasons behind them, and what changed since. So nobody re-litigates last quarter from scratch.
Know-how
The way your business actually runs — the steps, the exceptions, the things only your longest-serving people know.
Ask anything. Get it done.
Ask in plain language and get the answer in seconds — with where it came from. Then let assistants handle the follow-through: the chase-up email, the filled-in form, the report that used to eat a Friday.
Fair question
“Why not just use ChatGPT?”
ChatGPT doesn't know your business.
It answers from the internet. ReferenceLabs answers from your invoices, your WhatsApp threads, your decisions — and they're still there tomorrow, next quarter, and after your ops manager moves on.
And a wiki waits to be written.
Notion and shared drives only hold what someone found time to type up — and stop being true the week after. ReferenceLabs captures as work happens, so the answer is there even when nobody wrote it down.
Before and after
The same question, two ways.
- Ask around and wait.
- Dig through folders and threads.
- Depend on the one person who knows.
- Rebuild the answer from scratch — again.
- Ask once, in plain language.
- Get the answer in seconds, with where it came from.
- New hires read the reference, not the backlog.
- When someone leaves, what they knew stays.
A Pencil Labs product
Built by the team that reads businesses' paperwork for a living.
Pencil Labs has spent years turning documents into working software for companies across Southeast Asia. ReferenceLabs is that experience, productized.
fewer manual errors after handing document work to software.
productivity gained back by teams that stopped re-finding answers.
revenue uplift when follow-ups stop slipping through the cracks.
Measured across Pencil Labs document-AI deployments.
Security, in plain words
Trust you don't need a lawyer to read.
Your data stays yours.
It never trains anyone else's AI, and it never feeds another company's product.
Encrypted, in transit and at rest.
The same standard your bank uses, applied to every document and conversation.
Your reference is isolated.
Each company's reference lives alone. No shared pools, no cross-customer anything.
Built PDPA-aware, in Singapore.
Designed from day one for Southeast Asian data-protection expectations.
Join the waitlist and we'll reach out when it's your turn — one email, no drip campaign.
ReferenceLabs is in early access. We onboard a few teams at a time, hands-on, starting in Singapore — the waitlist is the queue.
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