Human-first
AI should augment people, not replace them. Our agents take the tedium; the judgement stays with your team.
About us
Accounting expertise, meet engineering.
GrowthStory exists to take businesses to their next growth potential with AI — built by people who know the work from the inside.
Vision
In an AI-enabled future, businesses won't just work faster. They'll work differently.
Tomorrow's accountant won't spend the day capturing numbers and filing returns — AI will. Freed from the tedium, they become what SMEs have always needed: a genuine growth advisor. We start with accounting; we don't stop there. Every industry has a function waiting to be reimagined with the right engineering and governance.
Mission
Put a trustworthy AI co-worker beside every team that's held back by repetitive work.
We design, engineer and deploy AI that earns its place in regulated, client-facing work — freeing skilled people to do the advisory work that compounds, while humans stay accountable for what matters.
Values
What we hold to.
Engineered for trust
Architecture, security and accountability are designed in — so the AI is something you can put in front of clients.
Practitioner-led
Built by people who ran the accounting function — so we solve the problems that actually cost firms time.
Quietly powerful
Calm, premium and dependable — no hype. The technology should feel like a capable colleague, not a gadget.
Biography
The people behind GrowthStory.
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Gayan Dahanayake
Co-founder · Former EY · Accounting (UK)
Gayan began his career at EY before spending years in UK practice, working across the full accounting lifecycle for SME clients. That time on the inside gave him an unusually precise picture of where the profession quietly loses hours — reconciliation, categorisation, data entry, chasing records — and where accountants create the value clients genuinely pay for: judgement, foresight and trusted advice. He shapes what GrowthStory builds so the AI takes on the former and hands people back time for the latter.
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Sahan Perera
Co-founder · Former PwC · AI Architecture & Engineering
Sahan is a former PwC AI Architect with a strong technical background in designing and delivering enterprise-grade systems. He brings the engineering discipline that turns insight into AI a firm can actually rely on — built with clear architectural governance, security by design and a complete audit trail, so every action an agent takes is explainable and reversible. His focus is making the technology trustworthy enough for regulated, client-facing work.
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