Key takeaways
Same market, same role, wildly different hiring outcomes
A saturated local market means slow hiring and lost candidates to counteroffers
Sri Lanka's AI talent pool is comparatively untapped
Lucytech removes the barriers: no recruitment fee, no local entity, no payroll or compliance to manage
Two companies posted the same AI engineering role on the same day.
Company A got 40 applicants over three months. Most were unqualified. Only two were worth a second look, and one of those took a counteroffer to stay where they were.
Company B had someone starting in four weeks. Vetted, full time, embedded in the team. No need to set up a legal entity in Sri Lanka. No recruitment fee to pay.
Company B used Lucytech.
Here's the part that surprises people. The hire wasn't cheaper because the work was worth less. It's because Lucytech looks somewhere the market hasn't picked clean yet, drawing on experienced Sri Lankan developers who are already working in LLM integration, RAG pipelines and agentic systems.
The process behind it is almost anticlimactic. You tell us the role. We vet and match candidates with no recruitment cost to you. We act as the legal employer on the ground, handling payroll and compliance, so you never have to register a company in Sri Lanka yourself. Someone shows up in your Slack full time, as if they'd always been on the team.
Most companies think their AI problem is a talent shortage. Really it's a search radius that never left their own postcode.
Sanna Khaled
CEO
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