Compliance is a cost centre. Software should treat it like one.
How we think about the problem, the product, and the responsibilities that no tool should ever take on.
The problem we care about
Every year, MAS publishes more notices, revises more guidelines, and raises the bar on director accountability. That's the right direction for the industry — but the operating cost of it lands on individual fund managers, whose revenue doesn't scale on the same curve.
For a small or mid-size LFMC, compliance turns from a supporting function into a line item that competes with alpha generation. Firms end up paying senior-consultant rates for what is, most weeks, repetition — the same reminders, the same drafts, the same forms.
We think that specific cost — the repetition tax — is what software should take off the table.
Six positions we build the product around
Directors own compliance.
Under the SFA, the responsibility sits with the board — not the drafter, not the vendor, not the tool. Any software that hides this is doing directors a disservice.
Software should shrink the cost centre, not the accountability.
Compliance work should get cheaper and faster as tooling improves. The obligations don't go away — the hours spent on repetition should.
Citations beat opinions.
Every answer we give points to the exact MAS paragraph it came from. If it isn't in the rulebook, we say so.
Audit trails beat 'trust me'.
Every draft, edit and sign-off is timestamped and versioned. If MAS asks, you can show the paper trail without a scramble.
Tools shouldn't hoard your data.
We store what's needed to run the workflow — nothing more. No client KYC in our systems, no fund financials sitting on our servers.
Humans stay in the loop for judgement.
The tool drafts, reminds and retrieves. The director reads, edits and signs. That line is not moving.
How we build
Singapore-first. We build for MAS obligations specifically. Not a US or EU tool with a Singapore skin.
MAS text as source of truth. The rulebook is public. Our job is to make it fast to search, fast to cite, and fast to turn into a defensible draft — not to reinterpret it.
No fabricated benchmarks. We don't publish stats we can't cite. Where we show cost ranges, they reflect publicly listed rate cards and market commentary.
Indicative pricing until launch. Rook is in pre-launch development targeting early–mid 2027. Prices shown are ranges; waitlist members lock in founding-member rates.
- • Sell or share your data.
- • Replace your lawyer, or offer legal advice.
- • Promise a MAS outcome — approval, timing, or enforcement.
- • Hide director accountability behind a chatbot.
- • Ship a "black box" — every AI output is traceable back to its MAS source.
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