Case study 02 · Fix
Stripes & Checks
Connected the backend to logistics, so order processing went from days to minutes.
26%Sales lift
Operations · Automation
Fifteen years on the receiving end of bad systems. Now I build the ones that work.
I'm Harith Gunewardene. I run operations, and I build the systems they run on.
01 · The turn
I was the person the software was built for.
For fifteen years I carried a quota, ran client accounts, owned a P&L and spent four hours a day on admin that a better system would have removed.
Most people who build internal tools have never done any of that. Now I build them myself, and only after I have done the job by hand.
02 · Case study 01 · Build
Mankind Recruitment OS
The problem
PLACEHOLDER: the problem in the client's terms, two or three sentences. This is the condensed cut shown on the home page.
Read the full case study50 min → 15 min
Per candidate profile
Same move, different domains
Case study 03 · Sell
OMAK Technologies
Franchise customisation and UK market-entry research, framed as process and implementation.
~11.7M LKRARR
Case study 04 · Analyse
One method, three reports
One method, run twice for a professional services client, from a salary benchmark to a market study across eight software roles.
8 rolesSoftware roles benchmarked
Want a system your team will actually use?
Book a call (opens in a new tab)03 · The method
You cannot automate judgement.
Do the job manually until you can define “good” explicitly, test adoption for $27 before spending $100,000, and only then scale the tech.
Step 01: Do the work
Find the invisible friction.
Step 02: Fix the process
Define "good" explicitly.
Step 03: Test adoption
Use $27, not $100,000.
Step 04: Scale the tech
Only when behaviour changes.
04 · Track record
Evidence, not headline.
2026 to now
Mankind RecruitmentBusiness Development & Operations Consultant
3 new client accounts and a C-suite placement in 6 months
2024 to 2026
OMAK TechnologiesNew Business Development Lead
50 locations across 30+ clients in 18 months (~11.7M LKR ARR)
2022 to 2024
Entrepreneur ConsultantSelf-Employed
26% sales increase and 50% traffic growth for Stripes & Checks
2020 to 2022
ActiveBooksManaging DirectorRan alongside The Last Word
Launched a tutor-management SaaS for in-person tutors; COVID closed the market it served
2016 to 2022
The Last WordManaging PartnerRan alongside ActiveBooks
20+ clients served; Kaema.tv grew to 7K subscribers in 6 months
05 · About
About
PLACEHOLDER: three or four sentences in the first person. Who I am, where I work from, what I'm looking for.
I designed it and set the constraints; Claude Code wrote the code. The budgets it had to meet: under 100 KB of JavaScript, a largest paint under 1.5 seconds, and WCAG AA.
I work from Sri Lanka on a US-morning overlap by preference: PLACEHOLDER: 08:00–13:00 US Eastern.
Book a call (opens in a new tab)
Prefer email? harithgunew@gmail.com — happy to send a CV tailored to the role.