Rajiv Sankarlall's founder coaching starts with a number. On a scale of one to ten, how would you rate your life?
Revenue is not the answer he is looking for. A founder can have a growing company and still struggle to explain why the rest of life feels smaller than it used to. The follow-up is where the conversation gets specific: why that number, and what would move it up one point?
The Florida-based tech founder and coach calls this check-in the Quantifier. In his description of private coaching, it establishes a starting point for work on the founder's own priorities. A higher score alone is not the goal. The person has to be able to name what changed.
A founder's experience behind the questions
Sankarlall's published account describes repeated burnout while building technology businesses, as raising capital and managing teams left little room for the parts of life that mattered to him. He stopped having fun. His spiritual practice fell away. He also describes compromising his values to keep other people happy.
After losing a company following a conflict with a business partner, he had to work out who he was outside the business. He drew on his coaching background and studies with spiritual teachers, questioning beliefs he had accepted and returning to gratitude and his own values.
In a professional biography, he describes earlier work as a trainer in the Tony Robbins organization. His current practice brings that coaching background to a problem he has experienced as a founder himself.
That experience informs the work he now offers through TechFounderCoach. It is personal coaching for founders who feel disconnected from themselves, even when there is plenty happening in the company. The premise is straightforward: what the business needs cannot be the only question a founder asks.
Making the answer practical
The method starts small. Having established a baseline, coach and founder explore what a more fulfilling life would look like and choose changes to try between sessions, revisiting the plan as the founder learns what works.
Consider a hypothetical founder who rates life a six. The company has customers. Every evening disappears into work. Calling the next target a seven means little until the founder names a change they can observe, such as keeping one evening free and actually using it for something they miss.
That is a useful distinction. A number can start a conversation; it cannot substitute for one. Sankarlall's approach leaves the answers with the founder rather than prescribing the same version of success to everyone.
Still building
Coaching is one part of his work. AskRajGPT presents him as its founder and AI coach, with a teaching approach built around a task the learner already needs to do. Its client-follow-up example has AI draft the recap while the user checks the details before sending.
Sankarlall's coaching offer starts with a free 15-minute conversation. A founder does not need a polished goal before making contact. They can bring the part of life that work has crowded out, and begin by putting it into words.
Disclosure: This profile covers Rajiv Sankarlall, the founder and editor of The Founders Report, and businesses he is involved in. It draws on his published accounts, not a new interview or an independent endorsement.