AI engineering,
based in Malaysia.
Astralab designs and builds production AI software: LLM applications, AI agents, retrieval systems, and the data infrastructure behind them. We are based in Malaysia. Our clients span Southeast Asia, Hong Kong and Australia.
What we have built
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Digital News Platform 路 Miri, Sarawak, Malaysia
United Daily News
A Sarawak daily that publishes each story in Chinese, English and Malay through AI translation that editors review.
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AI Agent Platform 路 Southeast Asia
StaffOS
A multi-tenant platform where small businesses put AI agents on their customer conversations. We built the early platform.
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Browser Agent 路 Penang, Malaysia
Auto Browser
An AI agent in the browser side panel that reads and operates web pages, runs on the model you choose, and asks before it acts.
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AI Content Platform 路 Malaysia
XHS Writer
An AI interviews a merchant's customers and writes Xiaohongshu posts grounded only in what they said.
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Global Art Platform 路 Southeast Asia
Arteesan
Artists sell work backed by on-chain certificates of authenticity. Official digital partner of CIMB Artober 2025.
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B2B Sales App 路 Malaysia
Baba Express
A dealer ordering app for iOS and Android that sends every order straight into the brand's ERP.
Who leads the work
Vin Lim
Vin has built software for more than a decade, and most of his own engineering is on AI agents and the orchestration that keeps them reliable. He is a Google Developer Expert, speaks on AI agents at developer conferences across Asia-Pacific, including Tokyo, Shanghai and Bangkok, and founded Arteesan and co-founded StaffOS, both listed above.
What we publish
We write up what we learn in Insights, and several posts include original data. Recent studies measured Codex reviewing 278 pull requests written with Claude Code and tested whether a product graph built by an LLM improves ecommerce search.