Fair tuk-tuk fares. Honest answers from people who live here. And SerendAI, an AI travel companion that reads the Sinhala sign, checks the weather on Adam's Peak and spots the scam before you pay for it.
Trusted by 60,000+ travellers from 65 countries, and growing every week.
Forums go stale. Facebook groups scatter. Official sites read like press releases. Meanwhile the questions that actually matter on the ground go unanswered:
OneCeylon puts a kinder, better-travelled friend in every traveller's pocket. The community answers what needs a human. SerendAI answers what can't wait.
One platform. One answer. In your own language.
A travel Q&A where locals and seasoned visitors answer what guidebooks don't. Build itineraries with friends, find verified guides, drivers and hosts, and check real fares before you haggle.
Point your camera at a sign, a menu or a banknote. SerendAI reads Sinhala and Tamil, checks live weather and transit, and answers in whatever language you ask in, at any hour.
Sri Lanka Tourism asked for AI-driven ideas for the future of tourism. Out of 52 entries, OneCeylon was named a co-winner in the commercial category, for a product that had been live for barely three months. Here is how we got there.
Travellers don't care about our architecture diagrams. They care whether the train to Ella leaves at 8:47 or 8:57. We build backwards from that.
Our users are on 3G in a moving tuk-tuk. Our guides speak three languages. Everything we ship has to survive the real conditions of travel here, not an idealised version of them.
A verified answer from a local in Galle is worth more than the best model we can fine-tune. SerendAI is clever. The community is right.
When something breaks, we fix it and write it up in public. Our notebook is full of our own bugs, because that is how trust gets built.
Plan the route, check the fare, read the sign. Everything you'd ask a local friend, in one place.
A senior backend engineer and a paid ML research intern on SerendAI. Real users, real problems, an award-winning product at three months old.
