Silicate Labs is headquartered in Islamabad. Our roots are Pakistani. Our infrastructure is local. And our ambition is to prove that transformative enterprise software can come from anywhere — including here.
Pakistani organizations should not have to accept their sensitive data living on foreign infrastructure. We built our architecture to honor that.
Data generated by Pakistani users is stored within Pakistan — in our dedicated Islamabad and Karachi infrastructure. Not replicated abroad by default, not subject to foreign jurisdiction.
Critical systems remain operational even if international connectivity is disrupted. Your operations do not depend on a data center you cannot reach.
In genuine emergencies, our global infrastructure on AWS and GCP provides continuity. Failover is automatic, your data residency policy is preserved, and you remain in control.
Enterprise customers receive full visibility into where their data is stored, how it moves, and who can access it. No opacity. No ambiguity.
These products are not adapted from foreign markets. They are conceived and built around Pakistani market constraints, regulatory environments, and economic realities.
A payment gateway built for Pakistani merchants — checkout, invoicing, and subscriptions. Sandbox-complete while we pursue an SBP license, not a foreign gateway retrofitted for local use.
Real-time PSX data, sector intelligence, and publication-grade dossiers for 700+ listed companies — structured data for Pakistan's capital markets, sourced from PSX's own live feed.
Leads, delivery, and profit tracking for Pakistani digital agencies — PKR-default pricing, built around how local agencies actually run, not adapted from a dollar-priced SaaS tool.
A verified venture and deal intelligence network connecting Pakistani founders, investors, and experts — deal flow and an accelerator built for the local startup ecosystem.
A free, selective Accelerator Internship and a paid Skill Mastery Academy, training people into fundable founders — built to widen who gets access to serious technical training.
1Chat, FRIS, UpworkOS, and OfficeCal round out the ecosystem — spanning support, data fusion, freelance operations, and scheduling.
We are pragmatic about what we can deliver today. But we are clear about what we are working toward.
Every product we build for Pakistani users defaults to in-country data residency. This is not a premium feature — it is a baseline commitment. Foreign data centers are failover infrastructure, not primary architecture.
Pakistani businesses have operated with second-tier tools for too long — adapted from markets that do not understand their constraints. We build for Pakistani reality: the payment friction, the logistics complexity, the market opacity.
Our team is based in Islamabad. We hire in Pakistan. We contribute to the open-source community from Pakistan. We want to be evidence that serious technical work is not constrained by where you are born.
MCP servers, tooling, and utility applications built by our team are released publicly. We believe the Pakistani developer community benefits when the work we do is accessible — not locked behind enterprise contracts.
PPay exists because Pakistani merchants deserve a local payment gateway, not a foreign one retrofitted for local use. We built it sandbox-complete first — proof before promises — while we pursue the license to go live.
We are not a foreign product with a Pakistan GTM strategy. We are a Pakistani company — with global ambitions. The difference matters in how we make decisions, where we invest, and what we prioritize.
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Full customer support platform — inbox, live chat, help center, AI copilot.
Real-time PSX data engine for 700+ listed companies.
Sandbox-complete payment gateway, pursuing an SBP license.
Leads, delivery, and profit tracking for PKR-priced agencies.
Verified venture and deal network for Pakistani founders.
Proposal-to-payout tracking for Upwork agencies.
Free and paid cohort-based technical training.
Data-fusion engine, pre-seed build, onboarding design partners.
Whether you are a Pakistani enterprise looking for data-sovereign infrastructure, a developer who wants to contribute, or an organization that wants to partner — we want to hear from you.