Saqib Rasool

I'm building COROS AI to help people and organizations navigate breakdowns, rebuild coordination, and thrive.

⊹ Lead the design of the world's first ontological coaching AI.
⊹ Drive fundraising and partnerships to scale COROS globally.
⊹ Build research & tech functions to deliver personal and cultural transformation.

COROS AI is the world's first sovereign AI coach—trained to help you coordinate

I mobilize stuck leaders and organizations through language-based interventions: diagnosing what's broken, then rebuilding coordination, trust, and performance.

⊹ 10,000+ hours of individual and enterprise transformation work.
⊹ Designed programs that turn knowledge workers into indispensable leaders.
⊹ Built frameworks for diagnosing and removing organizational stuckness.

Methodology developed

Co-founded and built the industry-leading startup, tax software for cryptocurrency.

⊹ Made the startup go from zero to 1.
⊹ Recruited the CTO and CMO to build the product and generate interest.
⊹ Helped the CEO raise seed funding of $1M USD.

Updated Jan 11, 2025: ZenLedger has raised $30 million in Series B.

Formerly Harvester Academy co-founded with with Chauncey Bell to help leaders and mentors develop skills and habits for diagnosis and mobilization to transform major messes in enterprises and mega projects.

⊹ Launched the company from the ground up, and designed/sold key offers.
⊹ Designed and launched courses, books, and programs.
⊹ Designed and ran educational events for leaders from around t

Led the BD efforts at Beijing-based IT solutions company Beyondsoft, building a revenue pipeline by productizing services and resulting in a $40+ million U.S. market presence.

⊹ Engineered sales pipeline and delivery processes for remote global teams.
⊹ Coached the executive team members on collaboration issues.
⊹ Established relationships with key decision-makers at major tech giants.

Finished

Launched a startup product innovation and MVP development studio to help entrepreneurs reduce the time to build, launch, and validate good ideas.

⊹ Grew the company from the ground up with a 2011 revenue of $1.1 million.
⊹ Hired and groomed talented engineers and innovators for building products.
⊹ Built and launched 15 cloud-based Minimum Viable Products (MVPs) for startups.

Attention shifted

Built the startup from the ground up to become an award-winning provider of online commerce platforms for college students.

⊹ Designed market and product strategy; launched technology platform.
⊹ Developed partner eco-system; hired, mentored, and managed the tech team.
⊹ Won the “Best Consumer Product” award in the Web 2.0 category by WTIA.

Microsoft's $300M investment in Facebook and their sub

Co-founded a decentralized payment system to take on the fraudulent chargeback problem.

⊹ Built the startup from the ground up and was acquired by a private equity firm.
⊹ Developed business model and built the founding team of 10+ people.
⊹ Raised $2.1M USD from the angel investors in Seattle and the Bay Area.

Startup acquired/overtaken by the series B investors at $70M valuation. Asked by th

Selected to lead the critical DOJ Compliance initiative for the SQL Server team. Moved from Microsoft Charlotte to Redmond HQ.

⊹ Led a team of 10+ developers and attorneys to develop compliance processes.
⊹ Orchestrated negotiations among executives from major platform groups.
⊹ Translated legal requirements into technical specifications.

Delivered 100% compliance in integrating SQL with W

I joined Microsoft's Premier customer accounts team to consult and manage investments in startups and companies building on the MS technology stack.

⊹ Retained and expanded a $35M per year business with Siemens Health.
⊹ Managed Microsoft investment and tech buildout in health and education.
⊹ Consulted with ISV partners in developing products on the Microsoft stack.

After 3 fantastic years, I

Right out of college, I was hired by Microsoft as an engineer to support the development efforts of third-party vendors on the MS platform.

⊹ Provided technical consulting, design reviews, and training to customers.
⊹ Delivered live WebCasts and wrote MSDN white papers.
⊹ Resolved complex technical challenges via direct tech support.

I was promoted to the ADC role on the MS Premier team.

Two years of studies in Management, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship

Specialization in Network Design | Minor in Mathematics