A Keel Lab venture

Your company's brain shouldn't live in your team's heads.

Business Brain is the missing layer between your scattered company knowledge and reliable AI automation. We build it for you — fully integrated to your stack, owned by you, kept current by agents.

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YC S26Built on Y Combinator's Summer 2026 thesis
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Strategic layer everything else runs on
The Blocker

AI models are ready. Your knowledge isn't.

Every company has critical know-how scattered everywhere. Some lives in people's heads. Some is buried in old email threads, Slack channels, support tickets, and databases. Your company works because humans vaguely remember where that knowledge is and how to apply it.

AI agents can't operate like that. They need a structured, queryable, always-current map of how your business actually works. Most companies don't have one. That's the real blocker.

We need Garry's G-Brain, but for every business in the world.
— Tom Blomfield · YC Summer 2026 RFS
Slack
Email
Notion
Drive
CRM
Tickets
Heads
Business Brain
State: fragmented
The Primitive

A living map of how your company actually works.

Business Brain isn't a search bar. It isn't a chatbot. It's a structured, continuously-updated skills file your AI agents can use to actually do the work — handle refunds the way your best human would, onboard engineers in days, respond to incidents with full context, price deals by your real rules.

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Skills File
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How It Works

Three steps from scattered to structured.

01

Extract

We connect to every source where your company's knowledge already lives — Slack, email, Notion, Google Drive, CRMs, support tickets, custom databases. Plus interview-driven capture of what only lives in people's heads.

02

Structure

We organize it into a vector database and executable skills file. Not raw search results — structured knowledge AI agents can reliably act on.

03

Keep alive

Agent-driven sync keeps it current. As your company evolves, your Business Brain evolves with it. No stale knowledge. No manual upkeep.

Use Cases

What it does once it's live.

For Support

AI agents that handle refunds, exceptions, and escalations the way your best human would.

For Engineering

Onboard new engineers in days, not months. Incident response that knows your stack.

For Sales & RevOps

Pricing logic, deal exceptions, ICP knowledge — instantly accessible to every rep and every agent.

For Operations

SOPs that update themselves. Tribal knowledge that survives turnover.

Build vs. Buy

SaaS gives you a tool. We give you a brain that's actually yours.

The SaaS approach — Glean · Hyper · Sana

Great products. But they're products — generic by design. You configure them; you don't shape them. The product roadmap isn't yours.

The service approach — Keel Lab

Your Business Brain needs to know your stack, your processes, your edge cases. That's an implementation problem, not a SaaS problem. We build it custom, you own the data and the system, and we handle the ongoing curation so it doesn't decay.

Custom to your stack

Built around your actual tools and workflows

You own everything

Data, models, infrastructure — yours, not ours

Ongoing curation

We don't disappear after launch

Process

Eight weeks to live. Then ongoing.

01

Discovery

Week 1

Audit knowledge sources, identify highest-value workflows.

02

Build

Weeks 2–6

Integrations, structuring, skills file generation.

03

Activate

Weeks 7–8

Connect to your AI tools and agents, train your team.

04

Maintain

Ongoing

Agent-driven sync + monthly curation.

FAQ

Common questions.

The things people ask before they sign. Yours not here? Write us.

Those are great products — but they're SaaS, generic by design. We build a Business Brain custom-fit to your actual stack, processes, and edge cases. You own the data, models, and infrastructure. We handle ongoing curation so it doesn't go stale.
Project-based, scoped on a discovery call. Pricing depends on the number of sources we're integrating, the depth of interview-driven capture you want, and ongoing-curation cadence. Most builds land in the $25k–$75k range for the initial layer, with a monthly retainer for curation.
Typical engagement is 6–8 weeks from kickoff to live. Discovery week 1, build weeks 2–6, activation and team training weeks 7–8. Larger orgs with deep custom databases may extend.
Your data stays in your infrastructure — we deploy into your cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure) or on-prem. We sign your DPA. We support SOC 2 controls, role-based access, and audit logs end-to-end.
You own everything. The vector database, the skills file, the integration code — yours, fully documented. Off-boarding is a 2-hour handoff call, not a contractual exit ramp.
20 to 500-person companies where the COO or founder feels the pain of knowledge living in heads and wants AI agents that actually work. Strongest fit: ops-heavy businesses, B2B services, and product companies with mature support/RevOps motions.
Yes. Fully. That's the whole point of the service-vs-SaaS positioning. We build it, you operate it. We curate it.
Begin

Every company is going to need one.
Let's build yours.

30-minute discovery call. No deck, no pitch — just a real conversation about whether this fits your business.

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Or reply directly: faizan@keellab.com