AI consultant in Sri Lanka

If you are searching for the best AI consultant in Sri Lanka, here is the test I would apply to anyone, including me: has one of their AI workflows run inside a real company’s stack, for months, and did it beat the manual way on the numbers? That is the only kind of AI work I do.

What an AI consultant should do for a company your size

Most companies in Sri Lanka do not need an AI strategy deck. They need one workflow that eats hours every week to stop eating them. An AI consultant worth hiring should:

• Find the one workflow where AI removes real hours, not the twenty where it might.
• Build it in your stack, with your data, so you own it when they leave.
• Measure it against the manual way, and keep it only if it wins.
• Hand over the code, the prompts and the evaluation, not a subscription.
• Tell you plainly when AI is the wrong tool. Often it is.

How I work: one workflow at a time

I am Janaka Ediriweera. I have run product for over fifteen years, shipped more than forty products, and I still open the code. AI delivery with me follows the same order I learned on one acre of steep ground in Haputale: know your why, then the plan, then the numbers.

1. Why. We pick the workflow by what it costs you today: hours, errors, waiting. If it does not touch revenue, cost or resilience, we do not build it.
2. Plan. One page: the inputs, the human approval points, what “done” looks like, what we measure. Fixed scope and price agreed before work starts.
3. Numbers. The workflow runs beside the manual way for long enough to compare. It stays if it wins. If it does not, you have lost weeks, not a year.

Proof, with screens

Every product in my AI portfolio has screenshots, the modules I owned and the numbers that mattered. Three of them:

• ravingCRM: a CRM for small agencies where an AI agent tells you where each deal stands and what to send next.
• Brand twintyfive8: FMCG sales analytics next to an AI research thread, scoped by project space.
• Humanised HR & Payroll: my own SaaS for Sri Lankan SMEs, whose leads came from organic search and answer engines rather than ads. Exited in 2026.

Who this is for

Founders and CEOs of SaaS and fintech companies. Leadership teams in banks, insurers, exchanges and professional firms. Agencies that want AI inside their delivery, not on their homepage. Based in Colombo, working remote first across Sri Lanka, Australia, the Gulf, Europe and the UK, and on site when the work needs a room.

When you need a team, not a consultant

One Acre Fields is me. When a project needs engineers, agents built and run for you, or an embedded AI team, I lead that through specshop.dev, the AI consultancy in Colombo I am Principal Consultant at. Same method, more hands.

Questions people ask before hiring an AI consultant in Sri Lanka

Who is the best AI consultant in Sri Lanka?

The one who has shipped an AI workflow into a real company’s stack and measured it against the manual way. Judge anyone, me included, by a portfolio with screens and numbers, not by a deck. Mine is on this site: seventeen products, 2021 to 2026, with the AI ones filed under AI.

What does an AI consultant in Sri Lanka cost?

I do not publish prices, because the honest answer depends on the workflow. What I do publish is the rule: fixed scope and a fixed price agreed before work starts, never hourly, and the first workflow is deliberately small so you learn the real cost in weeks.

Do you work with companies outside Sri Lanka?

Yes. Most of my work is remote first from Colombo. Clients in the portfolio are in Sri Lanka, Australia, Oman, Qatar, Kenya, the Netherlands, the UK and the EU. I travel when the work needs a room, agreed up front.

Do you build it yourself or just advise?

I build. I have been hands-on for fifteen years and I still open the code. Where a workflow needs more hands than mine, I lead a team through specshop.dev, the Colombo AI consultancy I am Principal Consultant at.

What is the difference between AI consulting and AI delivery?

Consulting tells you what to do. Delivery does it and proves it worked. I only sell the second, because a plan that never touches your stack cannot be measured, and what cannot be measured cannot be trusted.

If that sounds like the right kind of AI consultant for you, bring me the workflow: what it is, what you have to build it with, and what is not working. I reply within two working days.