How Pencel fits together

Pencel has a handful of parts. You'll spend most of your time in two of them: Home, where things that need you show up, and your rooms, where the work happens. This page shows how the parts connect.

The parts

Part	What it's for	Where it is
Home	Everything that needs you, from every room, most important first. Ask Pencel for anything from its message box.	Home in the sidebar
Team and rooms	Your AI teammates. Each one has a room for one area of work, where you message it and act on what it brings you.	Team in the sidebar
Library	Your Knowledge, the guidelines and background every room reads, and your Documents, every document, spreadsheet and slide deck you or a room wrote.	Library in the sidebar
To-dos	Your personal reminders. Teammates can see them, and you can hand one to a teammate.	The To-dos button on Home, or ⌘K
Studio	The teammates, workflows and job history that rooms run on. For when you want more control.	Studio in the sidebar
Settings	Your account, plan, connected accounts, spending limits and privacy.	Settings in the sidebar

How they work together

Here's what a normal day looks like with two Rooms running, RFP Operations and Email Chief of Staff.

1. Rooms work on their own while Pencel is open. The bid room runs its morning search and scores what it finds. The inbox room checks for new mail every 30 minutes. Neither posts anything if there's nothing new.
2. You open Home. It shows two decisions: a bid worth pursuing and a reply ready to send. It also shows one question: "Pencel needs: your payment terms".
3. You decide. You click Pursue on the bid, approve the reply, and answer the question. Your answer is saved as a fact in Settings ▸ Memory, so every room knows your payment terms from now on.
4. You go to the bid room and ask it to draft a proposal. The draft appears in the room's Artifacts tab and in Documents, where you edit it with AI help.
5. You give the inbox room a standing rule: "Anything from the county procurement office is always urgent." It applies to every review from now on.
6. At the end of the day you glance at Home. Nothing is waiting, so you're done.

You never had to open Studio. It's there when you want to adjust how a teammate writes or build a routine of your own.

What connects to what

• Rooms use Knowledge. Confirmed facts about your business and documents marked for every room reach every room. A room can also keep documents just for itself.
• Rooms produce Documents. Anything a room writes is saved under Documents ▸ Rooms ▸ ‹room name›.
• Rooms report to Home. Decisions, approvals and questions from every room come together on Home.
• Rooms use your connected accounts. A room can only reach the accounts you've connected and allowed, like Gmail or QuickBooks. See Integrations.
• Rooms run on Studio. A room's crew are agents, its routines are workflows, and everything it runs is recorded in Jobs.

Where to start

• New to Pencel? Follow the Quickstart.
• Want a ready-made setup? See Ready-made Rooms.
• Have a process of your own? See Set up your own Room.