About Sreejeeth Ramprasad
I'm Sreejeeth — the person behind this practice.
I spent my career building products — first as a product manager, then as a VP of Product, and finally as the Chief Technology Officer of Mentoria. So I have seen how career guidance is done in this country from the inside, and at scale. I have also seen exactly where it stops.
Alongside all of it, for years and never for a fee, I was mentoring — hundreds of people, simply because I wanted to. The same thing runs through all of it: paying close attention to a person, over a long time, before telling them anything.
This is that same attention, pointed at one child at a time — starting with the decision the school system forces at fifteen, and staying for the ones after it.
Why I Do This
Every athlete has a coach. Every serious musician has a guru. The best founders have one too. For the decisions that actually shape a child's life — what to study, what to become, what to do next — there is no equivalent. I think a child of thirteen, fourteen, fifteen — standing at the start of everything — deserves the same. That is the gap this practice exists to fill.
The occasion is Class 10. By the end of it every child in India has to choose — Science, Commerce, or Arts — and the decision shapes the next decade. But the big question is not really answered on the day it is asked. It gets settled by three years of small choices: what to try, what to quit, what to admit you are not good at, and whether it is safe to ask for help. Nobody is in the room for those. They happen on a Tuesday, in twenty seconds, usually alone.
I think most unhappiness at work starts much earlier than people realise. Not in the job, but in a choice made years before it, usually without enough to go on. The research agrees: people whose work genuinely suits them are happier in it and better at it. And almost nobody is standing beside the child on the day that choice gets made.
How The Practice Works
It's an ongoing relationship with a single family, run as two parallel threads — one with the child, one with the parents.
The one rule
I never make a single decision for them. Not the stream, not the college, not the job. Not once. What I do instead is ask, and put the right thing in front of them at the right moment — the fact they were missing, the person who actually does that work, the situation that shows them something a conversation cannot. Then I clear the obstacle when they are stuck, and get out of the way. An answer you reached yourself survives a hard week; one handed to you by an adult does not.
Six months on the first question
There are 7,005 documented jobs in the world, and there is a way to take a child across the whole range of them in six months without it taking over their life. Learning about them. Talking to people who do that work, when I can arrange it. Trying something, when they want to. At the end, a short list of the few directions that genuinely pulled them — and the stream answer falls out of it. How that actually works is a conversation rather than a paragraph; I walk every family through the whole method on the first call, in full.
Then I stay
The questions don't stop at Class 10 — which exam to give up two years to, which degree, which city, whether to specialise, whether to take the job, whether to start again at twenty-five. They keep arriving, and the child has someone to bring them to. An hour a week — in person in Bengaluru wherever possible — and in between they can reach me: a decision on a Tuesday evening does not wait until Saturday. There is no homework, nothing is marked, and no week has to produce anything.
With the parents
Regular conversations — about what's emerging in the child, the decisions on the horizon, and what a third person standing slightly outside the house can sometimes see. I am not going to tell you how to parent; I have never done it, and it is not what I am for. You have known your child far longer than I ever will.
What's Underneath
None of this reaches the family as a course or a branded system. Behind it, though, the work rests on decades of research into how young people choose their careers. Three findings do most of the work. Children quietly rule options out years before anyone asks them to choose. A passing spark and a real interest look alike at first and behave very differently over time. And all of us are poor judges of what we are good at — which is why nothing here ever asks a child to rate themselves.
It is how I read what I am actually seeing. It is never a test the child sits. The method itself is something I walk every family through in person, in full, on the first call. This is one practice, run by one person: twenty families at a time, because twenty is what I can genuinely know.
Children join in Classes 8 to 10, across any board. I am in Bengaluru, and the weekly hour is meant to happen in a room — a fourteen-year-old tells you more in person than on a screen. I take a small number of families elsewhere entirely on video, and I say plainly that it is the lesser version. The first month is free either way: it is how the three of us find out whether this is a fit.
If you would rather your child reach that decision able to say what they think and why — and then keep deciding that way for the rest of their life — let us have a conversation.