Shika Group
We make more from what already exists.
A group that builds products, advises companies, teaches builders and writes books. One conviction underneath all of it: most of the value is already in your hands.
A studio, a portfolio of products, an advisory practice, live courses and two books. One group.
The group
Five doors. One house.
Every part of Shika Group does a different job. The same idea runs through all of them: the value is already there, and our work is to make it count.
Shika Studio
Websites, apps, platforms and digital experiences for companies that need more than a template. Bring us the idea. We will build the thing.
Enter the studio → 02 We build and operate our ownProducts
Intelligence platforms, health data, AI diagnostics and creator tools. Owned, run and paid for by us, which is how we know what breaks in month six.
See the portfolio → 03 We advise companiesAdvisory
AI operating models, commercial growth and life sciences, from a practice that builds its own products and so pays for the decisions it recommends.
Meet the practice → 04 We teach people to build it themselvesLearning
Short, live courses for experienced people. Every one ends with something finished that you made yourself, and the skill to make the next one.
See the courses → 05 We write the argument downBooks
The Job Well Done, on leading well. Why Not Sri Lanka?, on a country that already has everything it needs.
Open the books →Selected work
Built for clients. And built by us.
Every project below carries a label, because something we built for ourselves and a job we were hired for are not the same claim.
01
AfterRaise
Funding is only the beginning. AfterRaise reads who just raised and works out the jobs, projects, partnerships and expertise that appear next.
- Product strategy
- Positioning
- Data pipeline
- Interface design
02
AreaIQ
A global opportunity intelligence platform: it watches what changes in the world and works out which developments matter to one particular company.
- Product strategy
- Positioning
- Information architecture
- Intelligence UX
03
RareTrial
Registry data turned into plain language across every rare condition, for patients and families searching for a trial that may matter to them.
- Information architecture
- Editorial design
- Data pipeline
- Programmatic SEO
04
Komava Biotherapeutics
A corporate presence for a preclinical biotechnology company developing a regenerative wound care platform. Built from a pitch deck and a content document.
- Strategy
- Structure
- Design
- Development
- Motion
- Scientific storytelling
Shika Advisory
Advice from people who build the thing.
Eighteen years at board level, applied to the question every company is now asking: what should AI change in this business, and what should it leave alone.
- AI operating model. Where AI changes how the work gets done, where it should not, and what that means for the people, the data and the P&L.
- Commercial growth. Make more from what you already have: revenue you are not collecting, expertise you are not selling, data you are not using.
- Life sciences. Pharma, biotech, diagnostics and medtech, from someone who spent eighteen years inside them.
Shika Learning
Leave with the fish and the rod.
Short, live courses for experienced people who would rather build it than read about it. Every course ends with something finished that you made yourself, and the skill to make the next one without us.
Your Offer and Your Website, Live in 7 Days
A clear, priced offer and a live website that sells it, in seven evenings.
0210 Videos in 10 Days
Post one short video a day for ten days, with a daily live in a private group and a script for every day.
03Write Your Book in 14 Days
Your whole non-fiction book written in fourteen days, in your own voice, with AI doing the heavy lifting.
Shika Books
The argument, written down.
Two books by our founder. One about leading well, drawn from Queen Elizabeth II's seventy-year reign. One about an island with everything, and the one thing that would make it rich.
The founder
Dr Maheshika Halbeisen
Eighteen years building enterprise commercial ecosystems at board level across EMEA, leading teams across four continents. A PhD in Chemistry, an Executive MBA, and the award-winning author of The Job Well Done. She now builds AI-powered platforms and helps experienced professionals turn their expertise into an independent authority business.
Every company in this group was built by her and the people she works with. The books are hers. The courses are taught by her. The advice comes from her.
Start here
Bring us what you have. We will figure out the rest.
A project to build, a company to advise, a course to join or a book to read. Start with the door that fits, or just write to us.
Every project is scoped individually. Once we understand what you need, we will give you a clear fixed proposal before work begins.