Althea Digital builds digital systems for primary healthcare in rural clinics and crop intelligence for smallholder agriculture — designed and deployed from Colombo, Sri Lanka.
We build specifically for sectors where digital tools are scarce, the environment is unforgiving, and the cost of failure is borne by someone in a clinic or a paddy field. Our work concentrates in two domains.
Operational and clinical tooling for general practitioners, small hospitals, and community health workers serving populations outside major cities.
Detection, monitoring and decision-support tools designed around Sri Lankan crops, growing conditions, and extension-officer workflows.
A complete operating system for the rural GP practice — appointments, patient records, prescriptions, and basic billing — delivered as a managed service so that a single-doctor clinic has no software to install, configure, or maintain.
Designed for the realities of rural deployment: works offline, syncs when a connection is available, runs on inexpensive hardware, and supports Sinhala, Tamil and English in the same workflow.
A field-to-dashboard surveillance system that turns farmer sightings and image-based detection into early warnings for agricultural extension officers and research institutes.
Tuned for the crops that matter to Sri Lankan food security — rice, maize, chilli, onion, and key vegetable crops — with disease and pest models grown from local field data, not generic global libraries.
Building for under-served sectors means inheriting their constraints. We design from those constraints rather than ignoring them.
We start with the people who'll use the system — the doctor at a one-room clinic, the field officer on a motorbike — before we write a line of code.
Intermittent connectivity, ageing devices, mixed literacy. Our software treats these as the baseline, not an edge case.
Data generated in Sri Lankan clinics and fields stays in Sri Lanka, owned by the institutions and people who produce it.
We collaborate with clinics, agriculture institutes, NGOs, and government partners. If you have a problem worth solving for a community we serve, we'd like to hear about it.