Hi, I’m Patrick.

Twenty-five years in finance, then ten on my own account, building businesses. Mine, and other people’s.

Today I help established founders bring clients in without spending their evenings on it.

I believe being a founder should not have to feel like an ordeal. It can be an adventure, and a profitable one, without having to choose between the two.

Like you, I have known the highs and lows that set the rhythm of this work. The pressure of delivering on time, then the silence and the uncertainty once a mandate ends. I know what it is to be on deck serving clients while still publishing, still showing up, and still hoping the next mandate lands before the invoices do.

One day I had had enough. I was convinced there was another way to do this, without leaving your health and your weekends in it.

So I started again from nothing and systemised all of it. The position you hold, the offer you sell, the way you become visible, and the way you go and find people instead of waiting for them. For myself first. Then for the ones who, like me, were tired of working themselves into the ground instead of enjoying what they had built.

That is what Pipewrite does now. We capture your voice once. After that we write under your name, we build the list of people who should already know you, we go and find them one at a time, and we put the conversation in your calendar. Ninety minutes of your month, and the system keeps running while you deliver.

I am the same generation as the leaders I work with. I know what is at stake for them and what keeps them up, I speak their language, and I add something my generation rarely has. I know what today’s technology can do, and more usefully, what it cannot.

I am convinced that with a laptop, a connection and real expertise in a field, you can build work that is worth doing without it turning into a second job. That is what I am offering to do for you.

A few times a year I take on something different. Someone with the track record and the clients, and with nothing ever built around any of it. We then build the whole commercial side from the ground up. There is no page for it and no brochure. I raise it when the conversation makes it obvious.

If you recognise yourself in this, let us talk.