§ 01 — Strategic Counsel
For Founders & Business Owners

Blockedgrowth?

The problem is not in your product, your marketing, or your team — it's in the alignment between all of them and the world they're operating in.

We fix that alignment.

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§ 02 The Problem

There's a particular kind of stuck that's hard to explain — even to yourself.

The business is real. The market exists. You've tried the obvious moves — revised the marketing, looked at the roadmap, restructured the team. Things improve slightly, temporarily. The ceiling stays.

The problem is never where it appears.

What's underneath is almost always a misalignment — between where the market is heading, what your business says it is, what your systems reward, and how your buyers actually decide.

§ 03 The Diagnosis

Where The Problem Actually Lives

Where you're looking
MarketingLeads · Campaigns · CAC
ProductFeatures · Roadmap · PMF
SalesPipeline · Conversion
TeamHiring · Structure · Culture
What The Team Sees
Where the problem actually lives
01
Macro shifts
You're building for a world that's quietly moving on.
Markets shift before most people name them. The founders who scale are building ahead of the change, not reacting to it.
02
Arena & identity
You're playing the right game on the wrong field.
Where you play and how you show up shapes who finds you, what you charge, and who you attract. Strategic choice, not a messaging one.
03
Org systems
Your systems are optimised for something other than growth.
The behaviours that get rewarded, the decisions that get made — when these pull differently from growth, effort stops compounding.
04
Human behaviour
Your buyer decides differently than you think.
Buyers act on instinct, emotion, and fear far more than logic. When your offer is built around rational value but buyers decide on something else, nothing fixes the gap.
The real problem
Alignment

Misalignment between any of these is where growth stalls. We find it. And we fix it at the root.

§ 04 The Approach

How We Work Together

Find the real problem, solve it at the root.

You have something real. But fit is still elusive — and the usual advice isn't getting you there faster.

This phase is hard because the problem is rarely where it appears. You might be in the right market but the wrong arena — talking to the right buyer with the wrong story. The gap is usually smaller than it feels, but it needs the right diagnosis to close.

What we do
Monthly thinking partnership — macro read on your space, positioning pressure-test, feedback loop design
What changes
Sharper arena clarity, assumptions tested before the market tests them, a clearer path to sustainable revenue
Engagement
Monthly retainer · Small number of founders at a time

You've built something that works. But the next level of growth isn't coming from doing more of the same.

Growth has plateaued. The obvious moves haven't shifted the ceiling. The problem is almost never where it looks — it's in the gap between what your business is optimised for and what the next phase requires.

What we do
Focused diagnostic across the four misalignments, plus a forward look at where new growth lives based on your ambitions and market direction
What changes
Leadership aligned on what's actually wrong, clear interventions ranked by leverage, sharper view of where growth comes from next
Engagement
Sprint-based · Fixed scope, fixed timeline
§ 05 The Founder

Letter From The Founder

I've always been drawn to the intersections — where ideas, disciplines, and human motivations meet. That curiosity shaped a career that didn't follow a straight line. I've been a founder, a corporate strategist, a consultant. I've navigated the same uncertainty and blind spots that the founders and business owners we work with bring to us.

What that range taught me is that the hardest problems rarely sit in one domain. They live between things — between where the world is heading and what a business is built for, between what a team is incentivised to do and what growth actually requires, between how a founder sees their business and how the market experiences it.

At With/Care, we work on problems at that depth. My partner Ranjit Damodaran brings twenty years of strategy and transformation across IBM, Ericsson, and consulting — where I focus on diagnosis and direction, Ranjit brings the operational depth to make change stick. Beyond the two of us, we draw on a close network of peers who have built and led at Meta, Google, Microsoft, and Amazon — as well as founders who have navigated the same inflection points. We bring them in when the problem calls for it.

We work with a small number of clients at a time. Not to offer quick fixes, but to find what will actually endure. That's important to us.

Sohrab Kalra
Founder · MBA, Darden

The Team

Ranjit Damodaran
Ranjit Damodaran
MBA, Darden School of Business
Partner
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Sohrab Kalra
Sohrab Kalra
MBA, Darden School of Business
Founder
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§ 06 Evidence

What Our Clients Say

A Case Study

File No. 001 · Resolved
The Identity Reframe

A technology company had built impressive capability in video analytics — serving government, smart cities, and infrastructure providers. The product worked. But sales cycles were long and conversations were getting stuck.

The presenting problem was positioning. The real problem was identity. They were calling themselves a video analytics company — accurate, but it made buyers think about cameras rather than decisions. Underneath was something far more valuable: business intelligence helping large organisations act faster.

That reframe changed everything — clearer value proposition, more focused features, a more precise view of which customers and stakeholders to engage.

The capability hadn't changed. The way it was understood had. Sales cycles shortened because buyers immediately understood what was at stake.

What People Say

I can confidently say that Sohrab is one of the most talented professionals and strategic leaders I have ever had the opportunity to collaborate with. His ability to quickly grasp difficult concepts and present a thorough and reasoned analysis is bar none.
Senior Product Counsel · AI Governance Professional
He is one of the most inquisitive, strategic and intelligent human beings I've had the pleasure of working with in my entire career. He can connect the dots in complex situations and is just a deep philosophical thinker.
Founder & Strategy Leader · Business Development
Sohrab has the unique blend of understanding the big picture, identifying business pain points, coming up with innovative solutions, and developing a strategic framework to implement the solution.
Growth Strategy & Emerging Tech Leader · Startup Founder
§ 07 From The Big Picture

Our Writings

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