Who's behind Asla

A builder who coaches.

I use technology and systems thinking to turn the coaching method into something you can run on yourself.

Portrait of Lan, founder of Asla

The story.

I'm a builder who coaches. Fifteen years building and running companies (BCG, a Harvard MBA, CEO of a product used by three million people), then trained as a coach (104 hours of ICF-accredited coach training) and studied the psychology and neuroscience of mental health at King's College London.

I didn't invent a method. Coaches already know how to move people: the questions taught in ICF-accredited coaching, the tools of CBT and ACT. What was missing was access. So I built what I know how to build: technology that helps you understand the method, ask the right questions, and practice it on your own life. The AI never gives you the answer; it helps you reach your own. I've worked this way with more than 200 people around the world, and I believe self-coaching isn't the whole toolkit. It's what makes everything else you bring to it work better.

- Lan, founder of Asla
"I had the BCG training, the Harvard MBA, and a company with three million users, and no method for the one transformation none of them covered: my own. So I built it."

Being stuck is the avoidance of a feeling. More input won't move it. A method will.

Why Asla is different.

Emotion, not output

Every stuck is guarding a feeling. Asla names it and works with it, not around it.

A builder who coaches

Technology carries the structure so the insight stays yours. Not one more app to manage - a method you keep.

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What Asla will never do.

  • -Manufacture urgency, guilt, or shame.
  • -Gamify your inner life.
  • -Measure your worth by output.
  • -Pretend to be therapy. If something heavy surfaces, we route you to real support.