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Ceylon Labs AI

Ways to workwith us.

International organizations can engage Ceylon Labs AI for a single defined project, or build a long-term engineering capability in Sri Lanka. Most relationships grow in that order.

Discuss a partnership

The engagement path.

  1. Discovery sprint
  2. Project
  3. Dedicated team
  4. Offshore Development Centre

Engagement models.

  1. 1

    Project-Based Engineering

    For organizations with a defined AI, software, data or digital transformation project.Defined scope
  2. 2

    Dedicated Engineering Teams

    Dedicated AI or software engineering capacity aligned with your long-term roadmap.Aligned to your roadmap
  3. 3

    Offshore Engineering Partnership

    A Sri Lanka-based engineering team working as an extension of your existing technical organization.Extension of your team
  4. 4

    Long-Term Technology Partnership

    A strategic external technology partner for continuous development, AI innovation, modernization and product evolution.Strategic partner
  5. 5

    Offshore Development Centres

    Long-term engineering capability established in Sri Lanka for international organizations.As the capability matures

What working together looks like.

A named team, a plan you can read, and a plain-language report every week. Illustrative samples.

Dedicated team · plan

Proposal

Month 1–6 · scales with the roadmap

RolePeopleFTE
Senior technical architect10.5
AI engineers22
Software engineers33
Data engineer11
QA engineer11
Named engineers, a fixed monthly rate, and the work held in your own repositories from day one.

Weekly delivery report · week 6

On track

Sent every Friday to your product owner

  • DoneDocument intake service live in staging
  • DoneEvaluation set agreed: 600 labelled claims
  • NextTriage model, first evaluation run
  • RiskSample data from the second region is late
What was done, what is next and what is at risk, in plain language. Risks are raised early.

Your engineering centre, in Colombo.

An Offshore Development Centre gives you a dedicated, long-term team in Sri Lanka: in a time zone that overlaps Europe, the Middle East and Asia, inside a growing international business district.

How we reduce your risk.

  • Start medium

    A paid discovery sprint or fixed-scope pilot lets you judge our engineers on real work, before a larger commitment.

  • Agree success first

    Acceptance criteria and AI-evaluation thresholds are set in writing before the build begins.

  • You own the work

    Code and IP are assigned to you and held in your own repositories from day one.

  • Protected from the start

    NDA and IP-assignment terms are signed before any technical exchange.

  • Visible progress

    A named Senior Lead per engagement, written progress reports and milestone-based payments.

When to choose us, and when not to.

We would rather tell you early that we are not the right partner than take on work we cannot deliver well.

  • Best fit
  • AI-heavy or AI-enabled product builds that must reach production.
  • Product companies and start-ups that need AI and software from one team.
  • Organizations planning a dedicated engineering team or Offshore Development Centre.
  • Regulated or high-trust sectors that require rigorous evaluation and governance.
  • Probably not the right fit
  • Projects that need hundreds of engineers immediately.
  • Lowest-cost, commodity staff augmentation.
  • Projects that require a large permanent on-site team in the client’s country.

Tell us about the problem. A senior technical lead replies, not a sales funnel.