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Research that ships: why we build what we study

FLiAI is a research and development team, but our research does not stay in a lab. It ships inside products people use every day, starting with Snap.

FLiAI is an agentic AI research and development team at Future Life Investments Limited. The word that matters most in that sentence is development. Our research is only worth something when it reaches a product that people use.

Three disciplines, one team

We work across agentic AI research, full-stack development, and automation and integration. Keeping them in one team means a project moves from an idea to a deployed system without being handed between vendors, and without losing what was learned on the way.

Snap, our flagship

Snap is a Sri Lankan buy-now-pay-later platform: pay the full price or split it into clean instalments, with one transparent fee. We design, build and operate the whole ecosystem, from the customer web application and the merchant console to staff operations tooling and the payments infrastructure underneath. It runs in Sinhala, Tamil and English.

We built it with TypeScript across the stack, on serverless cloud infrastructure, with an agent-assisted development workflow and continuous delivery from the first day.

What comes next

Snap is one of several products in development. We will write about them here as they reach people. If you want to build something with us, start a conversation.

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