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Est. Colombo, Sri Lanka · Software & Applied AI Research

Native tothe canopy.Built forthe wild.

A Sri Lankan software agency turning founders' ideas into research-grade products — moving between legacy systems and greenfield AI like a langur through the branches.

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Digital Transformation✦AI-Native Products✦Applied Research✦Founder Support✦Digital Transformation✦AI-Native Products✦Applied Research✦Founder Support✦

01 — Who we are

Research-grounded, not a build shop

We're a research-grounded studio. Our work is submitted to ISPASS, MDPI, and IEEE — venues that force our engineering to hold up to peer review, not just client sign-off. That discipline shows up in everything we ship.

Two ways in.

Founders · Companies

New-growth forest
For Founders

From napkin sketch
to shipped product

Scoping, architecture, and a hands-on build partner for early-stage founders. We tell you what your idea actually needs — not what's comfortable to hear.

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Established forest
For Companies

Modernise legacy,
without the rebuild theatre

Process automation, data platforms, and internal tooling for established businesses — plus AI-native products designed around AI from day one.

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02 — What we do

Four ways
we move.

At home in the whole ecosystem — not just one layer of it.

01

Founder Support

From napkin sketch to shipped product — scoping, architecture, and hands-on build partnership for early-stage founders.

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Digital Transformation

Modernising legacy operations for established businesses — process automation, data platforms, and internal tooling.

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03

AI-Native Product Development

Products designed around AI from day one — not AI bolted onto an existing product.

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04

AI Research & Development

Applied research feeding directly back into client and in-house products — published where it holds up: ISPASS, MDPI, IEEE.

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03 — Case studies

Products
in the wild.

03 / SHIPPED & LIVE

01
Salli — app screenshot
Fintech

Salli

A Sri Lanka-focused personal finance and tax preparation app — built to make tax filing and money management legible for individuals, not just spreadsheets pretending to be software.

Focus
Tax & money
Market
Sri Lanka
Status
Live
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02
LetsMigo — app screenshot
Marketplace

LetsMigo

Booking.com for experiences — restaurants, spas, escape rooms and more — with a built-in creator and influencer commission layer that turns recommendations into bookings.

Model
Marketplace
Layer
Creator commissions
Status
Live
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03
Katha — app screenshot
AI-Native

Katha

An AI app for cross-language chatting that removes the miscommunication slipping through literal translation — so two people speaking different languages actually understand each other.

Approach
AI-native
Surface
Messaging
Status
Live
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04 — Research & publications

Engineering that
survives peer review.

We're a studio that publishes, not just ships. Our applied research feeds directly back into client and in-house products — and we submit it where it has to hold up to reviewers, not just client sign-off.

ISPASS

IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software — where systems and performance work is held to the numbers.

MDPI

Open-access, peer-reviewed journals — applied methods documented and scrutinised in the open, not behind a slide deck.

IEEE

The standard for rigorous engineering research — the venue that forces our choices to be defensible to a reviewer.

Submitted to ISPASS · MDPI · IEEE

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Forest canopy
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The purple-faced langur is endemic to Sri Lanka and found nowhere else. It moves through every layer of the canopy — at ease deep in cover or out on an exposed branch. That's the posture we borrow.