Meet the Founder
I'm Rahul Sarin — a career fintech product builder, a decade-long financial independence practitioner, and the founder of Avance, based in the Greater Toronto Area.
I've spent two decades in fintech product development — corporate banking with a major global bank, and building securities-lending platforms used by banks, hedge funds, and broker-dealers across the US, UK, and EU. Big-institution money infrastructure, in other words. But the money work I care most about has always been closer to home: my family has been on its own financial independence journey for nearly ten years. We crossed Coast FI a couple of years ago and are now working on pulling our target date forward. Like most of the FI community, I ran it all on spreadsheets — and somewhere along the way became the finance person for my extended family and a few close friends' households too.
A few years ago, a conversation with an FI coach stuck with me: coaches change their clients' financial lives, yet they run their practices the hard way — spreadsheets, scattered calculators, chasing check-ins by email.
Every serious profession has an operating system. Coaches deserve one.
That's Avance: less prep and ops, more time actually coaching.