From 3am wake-ups to a regulated nervous system in 9 weeks

Co-founder, late-30s — climate-tech SaaS (Western Europe)

A founder three months out from a Series B raise, sleeping four hours a night with a HRV of 24ms. Nine weeks of Reset + daily anchors restored sleep, doubled HRV, and got the round closed without collapse.

Context

Three months out from a Series B raise, she was sleeping four hours a night, snapping at her co-founder, and using caffeine to push through investor calls. Her HRV had collapsed to 24ms. She'd tried meditation apps, a sleep coach, and a low-dose SSRI — none of it stuck.

The pattern

The pattern wasn't psychological — it was physiological. Her sympathetic nervous system had no off-switch, and the stack she'd assembled all targeted symptoms instead of the underlying tone.

What we did

•Reset protocol (10 days) to break the sympathetic lock
•Daily anchor stack: morning vagal breathing + post-call physiological sigh + evening cold rinse
•Weekly 1:1 coaching to renegotiate three meetings/week she didn't need to be in
•Journal app to track baseline state vs. trigger pattern

Outcomes

Avg sleep

4.1h → 7.3h

HRV (90-day avg)

24ms → 58ms

Resting HR

78 → 61 bpm

Time to fall asleep

47min → 9min

"I closed the round at a higher valuation than I asked for, and I did it without grinding myself into the ground. The frame shift was realising I was the bottleneck — not the deck, not the pipeline. Me."
— Co-founder, climate-tech SaaS

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The programmes and protocols behind this engagement.

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Sleep Care

Fall asleep faster, wake less, get the deep stages back.

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1:1 path

Bespoke Coaching

Six-week 1:1 with Sabin. Tailored to your patterns, calendar and load. Founders, clinicians, leadership teams.

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Targeted protocols

The Anchors

Sleep, cortisol, metabolic, vagal, social, breath, recovery — pick the protocol that matches the pattern.

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Three months out from a Series B raise. Four hours of fragmented sleep a night. 3am wake-ups with a clenched jaw and a churning mind. HRV: 24ms. The plan was simple and uncompromising — a 7-Day Reset to break the sympathetic loop, then daily morning + evening anchors, a glucose tail in the evenings, a hard 10:30pm wind-down, and one weekly walk-and-talk with the coach. By week nine: sleeping 7+ hours unbroken, HRV doubled to 48ms, round closed at target valuation. He kept the anchors after the round.