Cluster 15 of 28. Ideas 296 to 320
Software, services and the remote desk
The mechanism
The proof exists in Malabe. What is missing is a thousand small versions of it.
The 25 ideas
- 296Remote-work hubs in Kandy, Galle and Jaffna with fibre, power and a lawyer who knows the tax
- 297A Sri Lankan software product, not a services firm: one tool, sold by subscription to the world
- 298Bookkeeping for small British and Australian firms, in their time zones: the software keeps the books, and a qualified accountant here checks them and answers the client's questions
- 299Lawyers here checking the contracts and filings that AI drafts for foreign law firms, since commercial law here follows English law, the higher courts work in English and the lawyers are here
- 300AI set up and looked after for small businesses at home and abroad: the booking replies, the invoices, the product descriptions in five languages, for a monthly fee
- 301Architecture and engineering design for firms in the Gulf and Europe: the drawings made with the new tools, and an engineer here who checks that it will stand up
- 302Video editing, animation and game art studios selling to studios abroad
- 303Customer care in English, Tamil and Sinhala for the businesses of Sri Lankans abroad, with AI answering the easy questions and a person here the hard ones
- 304Data labelling and AI-training services, which is the new garment work and pays better
- 305A coding school with an employer guarantee, paid for by the employer at the end
- 306Open-source projects turned into product companies, the WSO2 route, for the next 100 engineers
- 307Cybersecurity monitoring as a service for the small firms of the region
- 308Sinhala and Tamil language technology: keyboards, speech, translation, sold to the platforms that need it
- 309Payment and invoicing tools built for Sri Lankan exporters, in rupees and dollars
- 310Freelancer co-operatives that bid as one firm, so the individual gets the enterprise contract
- 311A verified-skills registry for Sri Lankan developers, with tests and employer reviews, that a client abroad can trust
- 312Video-doctor services connecting Sri Lankan doctors to the parents of Sri Lankans abroad
- 313E-learning content in Sinhala and Tamil for the O-Level and A-Level, sold by subscription
- 314Drone-mapping and survey services for construction sites and land sales
- 315Software maintenance for the legacy systems that every bank in the region still runs
- 316App development for the tourism businesses in this list, on a revenue share
- 317A jobs board for returning Sri Lankans, with salaries published
- 318Podcast and audiobook production in three languages, for Sri Lankans abroad and at home
- 319Digital archives for family papers and photographs, a service Sri Lankans abroad will pay for
- 320Startups founded by Sri Lankans and incorporated abroad, with the engineering done here, deliberately