Where we are
Colombo
A studio, not a borrowed room
Our own space with professional lighting and current equipment, plus location shoots anywhere on the island.
About GrowthChord
The strategists and the camera, in one room
GrowthChord is a digital marketing agency in Sri Lanka. We are based in Colombo and we work island-wide. We handle search, maps, AI answers, social, LinkedIn and paid ads, and we shoot the photography and reels ourselves.
That last part is the difference. Most agencies here run your channels and hire someone else to shoot them. The plan and the camera never meet, so the photos never quite fit the pages. Ours sit in the same room, with our own studio and kit.
How we work
One team
One brief, one invoice
Strategy, writing, search and production on the same team. You are not translating between three suppliers.
What we count
Enquiries
Messages, calls and forms
Rankings and reach are means to an end. We report on the conversations the work produced.
How we work
What should you expect from working with us?
Six things we hold to, on every engagement.
We look before we quote
Every engagement starts with an audit of what you have now. We would rather find out in week one that you need something smaller than we proposed.
We say what we are not sure about
Nobody can promise a position in Google or a mention in an AI answer. We will tell you what is likely, what is a bet, and which it is.
We report in plain English
One monthly note: what we did, what moved, what did not, and what is next. Not forty pages of charts nobody reads.
We shoot our own work
When a campaign needs photos on Thursday, we shoot them on Thursday. No waiting on a freelancer with a different brief.
We will tell you to stop
If a channel is not earning its keep, we say so, even when it is work we are being paid for.
You keep what we make
The pages, the copy, the edited photos and the finished reels are yours once they are paid for. So are the accounts.
Who we work with
Are we a good fit for your business?
We do our best work with businesses that look something like this.
- You sell something real and you want more of the right enquiries.
- You are tired of managing several suppliers who never speak to each other.
- Your photos are old, generic, or missing entirely.
- You serve several areas and are only visible in one.
- You sell to other businesses and LinkedIn is where your buyers are.
- You want someone to say what is not working, not just agree with you.
Who you work with
Who actually does the work?
Two people, not an account manager and a pool of freelancers. GrowthChord is small on purpose: the people below are the ones on your project.
Arantha Sirimanne
Co-founder · Photography and production
A Colombo fashion and commercial photographer of more than fifteen years, who runs everything GrowthChord shoots.
Works on
- Fashion photography
- Commercial and brand photography
- Studio lighting
- Location photography
- Short-form video and reels
- Photo retouching
Arantha has worked as a photographer in Sri Lanka for over fifteen years. He is self-taught, and started shooting professionally while he was still working in software — which is a useful thing to have in common with the people who build the pages his photographs end up on.
His background is fashion and editorial. He was the exclusive photographer for Miss Sri Lanka at Miss World in 2011 and 2012, and official photographer for Miss Tourism Sri Lanka International in 2016. He has shot for Sri Lankan fashion brands including Odel, Gflock and Kelly Felder, and at pageants in India, Egypt and Bali.
At GrowthChord he runs the studio and every shoot: brand photography, product and location work, and the short-form reels that feed social and ads. The point of having him in the building is that the brief and the camera never get separated — the shot list comes from the pages and profiles the images have to fill.
Don’t take our word for it
Kanchana Delgoda
Co-founder · Search and AI visibility
Runs the search side of GrowthChord: SEO, local search, Google Business Profile and generative engine optimisation.
Works on
- Search engine optimisation
- Local SEO
- Google Business Profile
- Generative engine optimisation
- Answer engine optimisation
- Structured data
- Conversion tracking
Kanchana runs everything on the search side: technical SEO and site structure, local search and Google Business Profile, and the generative engine optimisation work that decides whether a business gets named when a customer asks an AI instead of searching.
He also handles the measurement — which searches bring enquiries, which pages convert them, and which engines are naming whom — and writes the monthly report clients actually read.
Business experience
Kanchana is a co-founder of GrowthChord and answers for the commercial side of search: which searches a Sri Lankan business can realistically win, what an enquiry is worth to that business, and what has to be measured so the owner can see the return.
His full career history, the roles he has held and the businesses he has worked with, is kept on his LinkedIn profile. We link to it instead of retelling it here, so what you read is always his own, current account.
The technology he works with today
Search has changed more in the last few years than in the ten before. People still use Google, but they also ask ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity, and Google itself now answers many questions before it lists a single site. Kanchana works across both: classic SEO and local search on one side, and the work that gets a business named in AI answers on the other.
In practice that means site structure and speed, structured data so machines can read who you are and what you sell, clean crawl rules for search and AI bots, Google Business Profile, and consistent facts about your business across the web. It also means reading the numbers properly: Search Console, analytics, call and enquiry tracking, and checking which AI engines name which businesses.
He keeps the tooling plain on purpose. A tool is only useful if the owner can read what it says, so the monthly report names what changed, what it did for enquiries, and what happens next.
Don’t take our word for it
Questions
What do people ask us about working together?
Related pages
Where do you want to go next?
The services, the proof, or the practical detail of how a project runs.
ProcessThe five stages: talk, audit, plan, build, then measure and improve.Case StudiesWhat we did, for whom, and what came of it.Results & TestimonialsWhat clients say, and how we report the work.SEO ServicesSearch visibility and the site behind it.Local SEOMap results, and a page for each place you serve.AEO / GEO / AIOBeing named when someone asks an AI instead of searching.Brand Photography & ReelsStudio and location shoots, stills and reels, in one package.LinkedIn Lead GenerationB2B visibility and outreach that starts conversations.
Want to talk about your business?
Tell us what is going wrong and what you have tried. We will tell you what we would do first, and whether it is worth doing at all.