Technology, marketing and AIfrom Sri Lanka.
We help small and mid-size businesses win more customers and save time.
Why we started
Sri Lankan businesses are full of good products and hard-working teams, but most still answer enquiries by hand, run marketing by boosting posts and keep their records on paper or in spreadsheets. Meanwhile, the tools to fix this have become affordable.
Halcent brings technology, marketing and AI together in one team, so a business owner gets a website, ads and automation that actually work together.
Why Halcent
Halcent (pronounced HAL-sent) combines hale, meaning whole and healthy, with -cent, as in ascent: healthy businesses that keep rising.
Isira Chirayufounder of Halcent.
A full-stack developer and marketer who builds what he sells. Isira founded the All Island Schools Commerce Association (AISCA), a national network of school commerce students, and built every system it runs on: the website and admin ERP, the finance centre, online ticketing, a project workspace, a digital magazine and a business simulation game.
He also founded ORIGINS, a multivendor marketplace for young Sri Lankan entrepreneurs, consults for Lockbird Education, an ACCA tuition institute, and is studying for an OTHM Level 4 Diploma in Business Management.
- Founding Chairman of AISCAA national network of school commerce students across Sri Lanka.
- Builder of every system hereThe Lockbird LMS, the AISCA platform, ticketing, project workspace, e-magazine and business game.
- National eventsForums, a career guidance day for A/L students, festivals and the COMMERCE 360° flagship.
- Founder of ORIGINSA multivendor marketplace for young Sri Lankan entrepreneurs.
2026,a busy year.
Events led and systems shipped, in order.
- AISCA Forum 2.0Held at APIIT Sri Lanka, with live attendance tracking and digital certificates.
- NEXTUP 01 e-magazineSri Lanka’s young founders, with Business Advisor Junior, in a page-turning digital magazine.
- FUTURE FORUMA career guidance day for 2026 A/L students at the National Olympic House, Colombo.
- MEMORA ’26 and HalcentA farewell night for student leaders at Berjaya Hotel Colombo, and the launch of Halcent.
- RANGEELA ’26A colour festival with its own online ticketing and QR gate scanning.
- COMMERCE 360°AISCA’s national flagship event, run from a purpose-built project workspace.
How we work with you
- Results you can seeWe agree a target before we start and show you the numbers.
- Plain languageNo jargon. If we cannot explain it simply, we should not sell it.
- Honest workExamples are labelled as examples. We never invent reviews or results.
- You own itYour domain, content and data are yours.
Let’s grow your businesswith technology, marketing and AI.
Start with a free AI Opportunity Snapshot: a one-page plan showing the three changes that would win you the most customers or save the most time. Free, within one working day.