Specialist CX Consultancy, Colombo, Sri Lanka

Elevating customer experience.
Helping businesses grow.

We help leadership teams treat customer experience as a genuine driver of commercial growth. Strategic, not transactional, and always linked back to the balance sheet.

73%

of customers say experience is a key factor in their purchasing decisions.

5 to 7×

more expensive to acquire a new customer than to retain an existing one.

1 in 3

consumers will walk away from a brand they love after just one bad experience.

KAI means ‘hand.’ The point where businesses and customers truly meet. In a world becoming more automated, the real differentiator is still the human touch. Experience is not a system, it's a handshake.
Our founding principle
Who We Are

Where customer experience drives business growth.

We work at CEO and C-suite level, shaping CX as a long-term, sustainable growth driver. Not a survey and a report, but every initiative linked back to revenue, margin, and the balance sheet.

Experience-led growth

CX connected directly to financial performance, contributing to marketing, sales and financial metrics.

The right clients

We work with leaders ready to treat CX as a core strategic priority, not a side initiative.

Revenue growth & margin improvement

Where CX drives measurable commercial return, not just satisfaction scores.

Loyalty & long-term retention

Building the conditions for customers to stay and grow with the business.

Our Approach

Three principles that shape every engagement.

I

Fact-Based

Every recommendation is grounded in evidence: data, voice of the customer, journey mapping, and real-world observation.

II

People-Led

The best strategy is only as good as the people who carry it out. We build capability alongside strategy.

III

Outcome-Driven

We measure success in customer satisfaction and the financial performance of the business, not deliverables.

Our Services

Kai's work spans four interconnected areas.

Assess
Design
Execute
Grow
01

CX Audit & Measurement

Mapping the gap between experience and expectation.

  • Customer journey mapping
  • Touchpoint performance review
  • Experience gap analysis
  • VoC, NPS, CSAT & CES
What it delivers
  • Prioritised gap list, ranked by customer impact and business effort
  • NPS baseline with industry benchmarks
  • Actionable recommendations linked to revenue, retention and loyalty
02

CX Strategy Design

Turning insight into a revenue-linked roadmap.

  • CEO & C-suite advisory
  • Bespoke CX strategy design
  • Revenue, margin & CLV focus
  • Long-term loyalty roadmap
What it delivers
  • Clear two to three year roadmap, owned by leadership
  • Future-state journey maps guiding every team's priorities
  • Measurement framework linking NPS and CLV to revenue targets
03

Implementation & Alignment

Making strategy real across every team and touchpoint.

  • Organisational alignment
  • Process & systems optimisation
  • Change management support
  • CX governance structure
What it delivers
  • A customer-aligned organisation, not siloed departments
  • Clear CX ownership across every function and level
  • Measurable uplift in satisfaction, NPS and retention
04

Training & Development

Building the skills and mindset to deliver great experiences.

  • CX leadership programmes
  • Soft skills & service training
  • Complaint handling workshops
  • Culture & capability building
What it delivers
  • Leaders who champion CX as a commercial and cultural priority
  • Reduced complaints, improved first-contact resolution
  • Lasting internal capability that outlives the engagement
Sector Expertise

Proven through experience. Trusted across industries.

Our team's cross-industry practice spans audits, mystery shopping programmes, and satisfaction studies across sectors, finding sharper insight by seeing how different industries solve the same experience problems.

Banking & Insurance

Branch experience audits. Customer journey assessments. Relationship & service quality measurement.

Retail

Mystery shopping programmes. Store experience evaluations. Sales & service excellence audits.

Hospitality

Guest experience measurement. Service delivery evaluations. Experience benchmarking.

Automotive

Sales & after-sales experience audits. Dealer network evaluations. Service centre satisfaction studies.

Healthcare

Patient experience. Hospital service quality. Outpatient & inpatient journey evaluation.

Meet the Team

Our core advisory team, focused on strategy and insights.

Ali Hussain

Chief Operating Officer

ICAEW Chartered Accountant (ACA) and CPA (Canada) with a management consulting background spanning Deloitte and Brand Finance, where he built and scaled the Sri Lanka operation from inception to a 50+ strong team. Brings financial rigour to every engagement.

Anoma Manuel

Service Excellence & CX Strategist

Over 30 years of international CX and operational leadership experience, including three decades at Emirates leading a global network of 142 stations and 27 lounges. Now translates that expertise into service excellence programmes across industries.

Michael Ranasinghe

Strategist & Organisational CX Expert

Marketing and management strategist with 35+ years of experience across South Asia, the UK, and the Maldives. Specialises in organisational transformation and translating strategy into measurable business outcomes.

Research Partner

Backed by Breakthrough Business Intelligence.

IPSOS Partner
ISO 27001 Certified

One of Sri Lanka's most established market research consultancies, with nearly two decades of experience across CX, NPS tracking, and service audits. Their methodological depth and institutional trust turns customer insight into commercially grounded strategy, so every measurement programme we run is backed by research-grade rigour, not just our own judgement.

Dr. Amal Karunarathna · Dilini Jayasuriya · Suresh Jayaweera

Strategic clarity, deep expertise,
and executional discipline.

Let's talk about what CX as a genuine growth driver could look like for your business.

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