Engineering Intelligencefor the World.
Artificial intelligence, software engineering, research and innovation, under one roof in Colombo, Sri Lanka. We build intelligent systems and advanced software for ambitious organizations worldwide.
An AI-native engineering company.
Internationally focused and export-oriented, we design intelligent products, enterprise AI and advanced software for clients across North America, Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Oceania, South America and Africa.
Colombo
Headquarters, Sri Lanka
AI + Software + Data
Three disciplines, one accountable team
11 stages
Each ends in a written deliverable
57 markets
Priority markets across seven regions
Artificial intelligence is powerful.Engineering makes it useful.
Our AI and software engineering capabilities work together to turn emerging technology into reliable, scalable, production-ready systems. Plenty of companies advertise AI. Far fewer can engineer it into software that carries real business load.
Data
Audited, piped and made AI-ready.
Intelligence
Models, agents and retrieval, measured.
Software
Production applications, APIs and integrations.
Product
Deployed, secured and observable.
Impact
Performing against outcomes agreed in writing.
A dedicated AI engineering team is built alongside the software team from day one, with equal standing in every engagement. One accountable team owns the data, the model, the application and the cloud.
AI-native,not AI-added.
Our lifecycle runs through AI evaluation, security review, deployment and monitoring. Milestones are tied to written acceptance criteria and evaluation results, not to hours delivered.
Production,not a demo.
Senior technical architects design your system and stay close to it. You talk to the people who build, not to layers of account management.
Senior-led,focused delivery.
Intellectual Property Counsel is part of our team from the outset. NDA and IP assignment are signed before any technical exchange, and code lives in your repositories from day one. All five design choices
Your code.Your IP.
Explore our capabilities
Systems that reason, retrieve, predict and act.
- Generative AI
- RAG & Custom LLM Applications
- AI Agents & Multi-Agent Systems
- Machine Learning
- Intelligent Automation
Built for production, not prototypes.
Every engagement follows the same eleven-stage lifecycle. Each stage ends in a written deliverable you can inspect, question and approve, so you judge progress on evidence, not on a final reveal.
Ceylon Labs AI
Engagement lifecycle
Define
- 1Client business problemProblem statement
- 2Discovery & solution architectureArchitecture, risk register
Build
- 3Data engineeringAI-ready data foundation
- 4AI engineeringModels, agents, RAG
- 5Software engineeringReviewed, documented code
Prove
- 6Testing & quality assuranceTest suites, QA reports
- 7AI evaluation & validationEvaluation report
- 8Security & governanceSecurity review
Run
- 9Cloud & production deploymentIaC, CI/CD, runbook
- 10Observability & monitoringDashboards, drift alerts
- 11Continuous improvementReviews, retraining
What you hold at the end of a stage.
Not slides. Working documents with thresholds agreed before the build, results measured against them, and a decision you sign. Shown here as illustrative samples.
AI evaluation report
ApprovedSupport assistant (RAG) · release candidate 3
| Metric | Agreed | Result |
|---|---|---|
| Groundedness | ≥ 0.90 | 0.94passed |
| Answer accuracy | ≥ 0.85 | 0.88passed |
| Out-of-scope refusal | ≥ 0.95 | 0.97passed |
| Hallucination rate | ≤ 2.0% | 1.2%passed |
| p95 latency | ≤ 2.5 s | 1.9 spassed |
ADR-007
AcceptedArchitecture decision record
Vector store for retrieval
- Context
- 2.4M documents, strict tenant isolation, data must stay in-region.
- Decision
- PostgreSQL with pgvector in the client’s own cloud account.
- Consequence
- One database to operate; re-index window planned monthly.
Production monitoring
LiveModel drift · last 30 days
- Uptime
- 99.97%
- Cost / 1k req.
- $0.42
- Alerts
- 0 open
Our definition of done
A demo that impresses in a meeting is where most AI work stops. We define done as running in production and performing against thresholds agreed in advance, then monitored and improved.
A demo proves an idea. We deliver systems that are done: in production and measured.
Intelligence for realSaaS & Cloud.
Twenty-four industries we aim to serve, from banking and aviation to gemstones and fine chocolate. Drag to explore, and click any industry to see how we apply technology there.
Don’t see your industry?
Let’s discuss your projectFrom Colombo to 57 markets.
Sri Lanka sits at the centre of our story. Every line starts there and reaches a priority technology hub: Silicon Valley, Station F, Dubai Internet City, one-north and more.
Priority markets we are building toward, not existing client locations.
Where is your team?
Pick your city to see the route from Colombo and the working hours we share.
Local hub: Silicon Roundabout
We work on your time.
The chart shows a standard Colombo day. In practice our teams adjust their hours to your time zone, with early-morning or evening sessions for Europe and the Americas, so you always have live working time with us.
Choose a city to compare working hours.
Why Sri Lanka?
Our engineering base: an island with a long record of exporting technology, and a new generation of AI engineers.
Why Port City ColomboVisit Sri Lanka- Skilled engineering talentHighly skilled software and AI engineers with real delivery experience.
- Strong higher educationA solid engineering and technology education base.
- Clear grasp of requirementsA clear understanding of software and AI client requirements.
- English-language businessProficient, professional English-language business communication.
- Competitive economicsCompetitive engineering economics compared with regional alternatives.
- IT-export experienceAn established track record of serving international clients.
- Growing AI ecosystemA growing AI ecosystem with proximity to global markets.
About Ceylon Labs AI
Ceylon Labs AI is an internationally focused artificial intelligence and software engineering company, established in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Ancient mapmakers called the island Taprobane; the world later knew it as Ceylon. We carry the name because we intend to build from here, for everywhere. Our model is export-oriented: a specialized AI engineering team and a software engineering team in one organization, so international clients engage a single partner for AI development, intelligent products, enterprise applications, data engineering, cloud-native systems and digital transformation. We are a newly established company and we say so plainly. We ask to be judged on our delivery system, our legal foundations as registered company PV00256019, and the written work we put in front of you at every stage. Let’s build something that ships.
A message from our founder
“Sri Lanka has the talent to engineer intelligent systems for the world’s most ambitious organizations. Ceylon Labs AI exists to prove it, one production system at a time.”
How we work with global clients.
Start medium, with a paid discovery sprint or a fixed-scope pilot. Grow into a dedicated team, then an Offshore Development Centre, as trust is earned.
- 1
Project-Based Engineering
For organizations with a defined AI, software, data or digital transformation project.Defined scope - 2
Dedicated Engineering Teams
Dedicated AI or software engineering capacity aligned with your long-term roadmap.Aligned to your roadmap - 3
Offshore Engineering Partnership
A Sri Lanka-based engineering team working as an extension of your existing technical organization.Extension of your team - 4
Long-Term Technology Partnership
A strategic external technology partner for continuous development, AI innovation, modernization and product evolution.Strategic partner - 5
Offshore Development Centres
Long-term engineering capability established in Sri Lanka for international organizations.As the capability matures
Hello, World!
“Hello, World!” Let’s work together. Write to us about the problem you want solved.
+94 77 871 2353 · Colombo, Sri Lanka