About
We would rather show you than tell you.
Shika Group builds products, advises companies, teaches builders and writes books. Some of it for clients. Most of it for ourselves.
The group
Five doors. One house.
Shika Studio
Websites, apps, platforms and digital experiences for companies that need more than a template.
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.
See the portfolio → 03 We advise companiesAdvisory
AI operating models, commercial growth and life sciences, from people who pay for the decisions they recommend.
Meet the practice → 04 We teach people to build it themselvesLearning
Short, live courses that end with something finished, made by you.
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 →Why we own products
We are our own worst client.
Most studios only ever see the launch. We see month six, when the traffic is flat and something in the pipeline has quietly broken.
Running our own products means we pay for the decisions we recommend. It is why we argue about page structure at ten thousand pages, why we care whether a machine can read a site, and why we will tell you when something is not worth building.
The founder
Dr Maheshika Halbeisen
She spent 18 years building enterprise commercial ecosystems at board level across EMEA, leading teams across four continents. She holds a PhD in Chemistry and an Executive MBA, and is the award-winning author of The Job Well Done, a leadership book drawn from Queen Elizabeth II's 70-year reign.
A daily practitioner of Claude, Claude Code and Codex, 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.
How we think
Four things we will not be talked out of.
A working thing beats a presentation
You can react to something real in ten seconds. A deck about it takes a week and settles nothing.
Useful before clever
If it does not help the person using it, the craft on top of it is decoration.
No house style
Our palette is deliberately quiet so yours can be loud. The work should look like your business, not like our portfolio.
We will not invent a number
No fabricated uplift percentages, no borrowed case studies, no metrics nobody measured. What we claim, we can show.
Start a project
The brief can be messy.
Send whatever you have. We will come back with a shape, a price and something to look at.