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About Cocoon

Who We Are

Built to help you
ride the wave,
not watch it.

Cocoon is a skills transformation company for the age of AI. We started with one belief: the people who win this decade won't be the ones who know the most tools, they'll be the ones who learn to think and build with AI. So we teach exactly that.

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Practitioner Trainers
1,000+
Tools in Our Library
12+
Programmes
5
Countries

Why Cocoon.

Skill development
built for the
future of work.

Cocoon is a skill development and transformation company built for the future of work.

Inspired by the journey of a caterpillar turning into a butterfly, we help professionals and organizations upskill, reskill, and grow in a world where AI is redefining how we work.

From mastering emerging technologies to strengthening critical soft skills, Cocoon equips individuals with the confidence and capabilities to stay ahead. Our programs blend hands-on learning, expert coaching, and real-world projects to transform careers, empower teams, and shape future-ready leaders.

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The gap between
watching and doing.

AI didn't arrive quietly. In the space of two years it went from a novelty to the single biggest shift in how work gets done, and most people are still on the sidelines, watching it happen to them instead of through them.

I kept meeting brilliant, capable professionals, marketers, founders, finance leads, students, who felt the wave coming and didn't know how to get on it. The courses they found were either pure theory from people who'd never shipped anything, or a firehose of tool names with no way to think about what actually mattered. Nobody was teaching them to build.

So I started Cocoon, a place where you don't watch slides, you make things. Where every session ends with something real you built and own. Where you're taught by practitioners who use AI every single day, not professors reciting last year's headlines.

The name says it. A cocoon is where transformation happens, quiet, intense, and then suddenly you can fly. That's what four weeks with us is meant to be: the place you go in uncertain about AI, and come out building with it.

The short version.

What is Cocoon?

Cocoon is an AI training and consultancy company based in Colombo, Sri Lanka. It runs hands-on AI courses, corporate AI training and workshops, and AI strategy and implementation work for professionals and organisations.

Who founded Cocoon?

Cocoon was founded by Ammar Ahamed, who is also Head of Growth & Marketing at Vector Agents and co-founder of Buildin Blocks.

Where is Cocoon based and where does it train?

Cocoon is based in Colombo, Sri Lanka. It trains on-site in Sri Lanka and Singapore, and online across Asia, including Malaysia, India, Cambodia and the UAE.

Who has Cocoon trained?

Teams and members of Derana Macromedia, ICTA, the Singapore AI Association, Lines Strategy and SA Ventures, among others. Cocoon is a member of Anthropic’s Claude Startups programme.

How do I contact Cocoon?

Email ammar@mycocoon.life, message +94 77 587 5997 on WhatsApp, or book a call. Cocoon is on LinkedIn, Instagram and TikTok.

Meet the founder.

Ammar Ahamed, founder of Cocoon

Ammar Ahamed

Founder, Cocoon · Head of Growth & Marketing, Vector Agents · Co-Founder, Buildin Blocks

Ammar is a growth and marketing leader who uses AI to ship real work every day, from building AI-native go-to-market systems at Vector Agents to scaling brands with Buildin Blocks and BuildrLabs. He started Cocoon to turn that daily practice into something teachable, so professionals across the region could skip the years he spent learning the hard way.

His conviction is simple: AI rewards the people who build with it, not the ones who read about it. Cocoon is how he's putting that capability into as many hands as possible, practitioners teaching practitioners, across Sri Lanka and Asia.

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Wishmi Katugampola, Head of Operations at Cocoon

Wishmi Katugampola

Head of Operations, Cocoon

Wishmi runs how Cocoon works day to day, from cohorts and corporate programmes to the community around them. A community builder and strategist, she is Chapter Director of CMX Colombo and part of the Cursor Community Sri Lanka.

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Anyone can hand you a list of tools. What makes Cocoon different is the teampractitioners who actually build with AI every single day, in real jobs. You're not learning from people who read about this. You're learning from people who live it.
Ammar Ahamed
Ammar Ahamed
Founder, Cocoon

Trainers who genuinely
love this work.

Our trainers teach because they genuinely want to. They're founders, engineers, marketers, and operators who are genuinely obsessed with AIthe kind of people who try a new tool the day it drops and message the group chat at midnight about what it can do. That energy is real, it's contagious, and it's exactly what you feel the moment you're in the room with them.

What lights them up most isn't the technology, it's the moment someone goes from "I don't get this" to "wait, I just built that." They teach because they remember how long it took them to figure this out on their own, and they're excited to hand the community those years back.

Upskilling our community isn't a tagline to them, it's the reason they show up. They genuinely want to see Sri Lanka and the wider region not just keep up with AI, but lead with it. You don't have to take our word for it; you'll feel it in your first session.

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Four principles
we don't compromise on.

Build, don't watch.

Every session ends with something real you made and own. No passive courses watched at 2× speed.

Practitioners, not professors.

You learn from 23+ operators who use AI daily in real jobs, founders, engineers, marketers, leaders.

Tools change. Thinking compounds.

We teach the mental model to evaluate and adopt whatever drops next, so you never fall behind again.

Upskill the region.

We're here to put world-class AI capability into hands across Sri Lanka and Asia, not just Silicon Valley.

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and start building?

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