Thanabalasingam Ithayalal
Founder/CEO
With a vision for building something meaningful, our founder brings a blend of big-picture thinking and hands-on experience. They set the tone for everything we do.
About Goldstar Tech
The agency we wished existed — so we built it.
Goldstar Tech began with a frustration every founder knows: agencies that promise the world in the pitch and disappear into jargon after the invoice. We started in 2019 to do the opposite — show the work, explain the numbers, and stay accountable to outcomes.
Our story
From two laptops to a Sri Lanka-wide practice.
Our first clients were local: a dental clinic that needed patients, a builder who needed buyers. We learned early that regulated, high-trust industries punish generic marketing — and reward agencies who do the homework. So we did the homework, over and over, until the homework became playbooks.
As the marketing practice grew, clients kept asking the same question: can you also build the thing? The booking system, the marketplace, the app. Rather than hand them to outside developers and pray, we hired engineers and built a software practice that holds itself to the same standard as our campaigns: shipped, measured, improved.
Today Goldstar Tech is one team across strategy, design, engineering and media — small enough that you know everyone on your account, senior enough that nobody is learning on your budget.
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Country focus: Sri Lanka
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Websites, apps and campaigns shipped
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Specialists across strategy, design & engineering
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Client retention beyond the first year
What we believe
Six values that survive contact with deadlines.
Values are only real if they cost something. These have cost us pitches, shortcuts and the occasional comfortable silence — and they are why clients stay.
Evidence over opinion
Every recommendation we make can point to data, a benchmark or a tested precedent. When we are guessing, we say so — then we design the test.
Clarity over cleverness
Jargon hides weak thinking. We write proposals, reports and copy a busy founder can understand on the first read.
Craft in the details
The kerning on a heading, the load time of a page, the naming of an ad set — small things compound into the difference between good and great.
Partners, not vendors
We take fewer clients and go deeper. Your goals become our sprint board; your wins are the only case studies worth having.
Build what we sell
Our own products run on the same strategies we recommend. We never prescribe a medicine we have not taken ourselves.
Honest when it costs us
If a channel is not working, the report says so. If your budget is better spent elsewhere, we tell you — even when 'elsewhere' is not us.
Milestones
The road so far.
2019
Founded in Sri Lanka
Goldstar Tech opens with three people, two laptops and a conviction: agencies should be accountable to outcomes, not activity.
2021
Sri Lankan sector playbooks
Word of mouth carries us across Sri Lanka. We build our first sector playbooks for healthcare and real estate.
2023
Software practice launches
Client demand for custom platforms grows into a full development arm — web apps, mobile apps and integrations.
2024
Goldstar Workspace ships
Our internal agency OS — projects, CRM, timesheets, invoicing — becomes a product we offer to other service businesses.
2025
AI-first delivery
AI-assisted content systems, automation pipelines and AEO/GEO services move from experiments to core offerings.
2026
Sri Lanka focus, six verticals
Today we serve clients across Sri Lanka with a team that still answers its own phone.
Ithayalal Prabakaran
Managing Director
Focused, approachable, and driven by results, our Managing Director is all about building strong relationships. They help connect people to the right solutions—with clarity and care.