48 coaches. We interviewed 1,600 to find them.
Most coaching platforms optimise for volume. The more coaches in the network, the more clients you can serve. We took the opposite approach. We started with one question: what separates the coaches who move the needle for founders from the ones who don't? After eight years and more than 1,600 interviews, the answer came down to two things.
- 48coaches in the network
- <3%of 1,600 interviewed were accepted
- 1,000+companies coached by the network, on the coaches' own track records
- $27B+raised by the companies these coaches have coached
Titan's quality bar
Every Titan coach clears at least one of these. Many clear both. These aren't aspirational. They're the floor. A coach who can't clear one of them never gets an interview.
Done it themselves
Built and scaled a VC-backed company to $100M+ ARR or a $300M+ exit, as a founder or one of the first few executives.
Seen it done well
Coached at least six founders from Series A to unicorn. Not involved in one or two. Six full journeys.
The interview
Clearing the bar gets a coach an interview. The interview is where we go deep, structured around three questions.
What they solve
We ask coaches to name the specific problems they have helped founders with, and how they define success for each one. Vague answers about unlocking potential don't pass. We want the exact challenges they've navigated and what a resolution looked like.
How they work
We ask about frameworks, source material, core beliefs and formal training. We don't subscribe to a school of thought. We're process agnostic and outcomes obsessed. We want a coach who can explain why they coach the way they do, not just what they do.
Who they work with
We build a detailed picture of their client base today. What percentage are founders. VC-backed or bootstrapped. Technical or not. First-time or repeat. Series A, B or C. Every coach also writes a hell-yes client profile: an honest list of the founders and companies they do their best work with, and the ones they don't.
Which kind of coach you need depends on where the problem lives
If the problem is in the company, the hire, the fundraise, the executive team, an operator coach who has done it is faster. If the problem is in your head, a performance psychologist works on that directly. Most founders are not sure which, so the discovery call sorts it and you can meet one of each in the trial sessions.
Founder coaches
For the founder whose company just changed shape under them: a first-time CEO after a Series A, a technical founder in the founder-to-CEO transition, a co-founder pair that has stopped working. A founder coach has either sold a company or spent a decade coaching the founders who did, and pattern-matches your situation in minutes.
CEO coaches
For the CEO of a venture-backed company hiring and managing executives for the first time, facing a board after a big round, or running the company instead of doing the work. Titan's CEO coaches ran that company themselves: past $100M ARR, through an IPO or a sale.
CTO coaches
For the CTO deciding whether to keep running engineering or hire above themselves, or the engineer now leading people who used to be peers. Coaches who ran engineering at scale.
Female founder coaches
For founders who want a coach who has sat in the same seat. A matching criterion you set on the discovery call, never one Titan assumes.
Performance psychologists
For the problem that lives in your head rather than in the company: anxiety before board meetings, sleep, the fear of being found out. Trained psychologists, not therapy and not business advice.
You do not browse these coaches. You get matched.
A one-hour discovery call, three coaches recommended from their track record on experience, modality and personality, trial sessions with two, and a free re-match when your company outgrows the one you chose. The best coaches in the network are selective, so part of the call is selling you to them.