Where we are
Colombo
A studio, not a borrowed room
Our own space with professional lighting and current equipment, plus location shoots anywhere in Sri Lanka.
About GrowthChord
The strategists and the camera, in one room
GrowthChord is a digital marketing agency and photo studio in Colombo, Sri Lanka. We help businesses get found on Google, in Google Maps and in AI answers from ChatGPT and Gemini, then shoot the photos and reels that make people choose them. Search, website and marketing work is for clients worldwide; photography is in Sri Lanka.
GrowthChord is led by a Google- and IBM-certified digital marketing and growth specialist and a commercial photographer with more than 15 years behind the camera. Our in-house team of search, content, web, photo and video specialists plans every campaign and shoots every frame in our own Colombo studio, so each photo is briefed against the search or AI question it has to win.
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 leads GrowthChord
Who leads the work?
GrowthChord is led by two founders who set the strategy and the creative direction. Our in-house team of search, content, web, photo and video specialists does the work, so your plan is run by a team, not a pool of freelancers.
Arantha Sirimanne
Co-founder · Commercial Photographer
A Colombo fashion and commercial photographer of more than fifteen years, who leads the creative direction of the photo and video work our team produces.
Works on
- Commercial photography
- Product photography
- Hotel photography
- Fashion photography
- Studio lighting
- Location photography
- Short-form video and reels
- Photo retouching
Background
- Commercial and fashion photographer in Sri Lanka for more than fifteen years
- Exclusive photographer for Miss Sri Lanka at Miss World, 2011 and 2012
- Official photographer, Miss Tourism Sri Lanka International, 2016
- Has shot for Sri Lankan fashion brands including Odel, Gflock and Kelly Felder
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 leads creative direction for the studio: brand photography, product and location work, and the short-form reels that feed social and ads. Our in-house photo and video team plans and shoots each job to that direction, with the brief written alongside the search plan, so 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 · Digital Marketing & Growth Hacking Specialist
A Google- and IBM-certified digital marketing and growth specialist (AI-driven SEO, SEM and GEO, paid media and analytics) who leads GrowthChord’s search and growth strategy.
Works on
- Search engine optimization
- Generative engine optimization
- Search engine marketing
- Paid media
- Marketing analytics
- Growth hacking
- Local SEO
- Google Business Profile
Background
- Digital Marketing and Growth Hacking Specialist
- Google- and IBM-certified
- AI-driven SEO, SEM and GEO
- Paid media and analytics
Kanchana leads strategy 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. Our in-house search, content and web specialists deliver the work.
He also sets how the work is measured — which searches bring enquiries, which pages convert them, and which engines are naming whom — so the monthly report our team sends says what changed and what it did for enquiries.
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
Our team
Who does the work day to day?
An in-house team in Colombo, working from one plan. Each client’s work passes through the same people, so the search plan, the pages and the photos stay in step.
Search specialists
SEO, local search, Google Business Profile and the GEO work that gets a business named in AI answers.
Content specialists
Service pages, articles and answers written for the searches and questions buyers actually have.
Web specialists
Fast, mobile-first websites, landing pages and the technical fixes that let Google and AI tools read them.
Photo specialists
Studio and location photography, briefed from the pages, profiles and ads the images have to fill.
Video specialists
Short-form reels and video for social, profiles and ads, shot alongside the stills.
How a client’s work moves through the team
- 01AuditThe search team looks at your site, your Google profile and what AI tools say about you today.
- 02PlanThe founders and the team agree one plan: what to fix, what to write and what to shoot first.
- 03Build and writeThe web and content specialists build the pages and write the answers the plan calls for.
- 04ShootThe photo and video specialists shoot what those pages, profiles and posts need, in our Colombo studio or on location in Sri Lanka.
- 05MeasureThe team reports each month on what changed and what it did for enquiries, and the plan moves on.
Questions
What do people ask us about working together?
GrowthChord is based in Colombo 6, Sri Lanka, where our photo studio is too; the full address and a map are on the contact page. We work with businesses worldwide on SEO, AI search, websites and marketing, and shoot photography and reels in our studio and on location anywhere in Sri Lanka.
GrowthChord is an all-in-one SEO, AI search and photography agency based in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Under one roof, we get businesses found on Google, in Google Maps and in AI answers such as ChatGPT and Gemini, build their websites, run their LinkedIn, social and ads, and shoot the photos and reels ourselves. Search, website and marketing work is delivered worldwide; photography is in Sri Lanka.
Because the plan and the camera should meet. When the same team writes the page and shoots for it, the photos fit the page, and a campaign that needs pictures on Thursday gets them on Thursday.
You do. The pages, the copy, the edited photos, the finished reels and the accounts are yours once they are paid for.
Start with a free growth audit. You see what we would fix first, and you keep the findings whether or not you hire us.
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.