A private counsel
For a principal who already holds capital, office, or both, and who has been sent. The house does not advertise a circle, and does not name who has sat.
The house
PatSeers is the house. The advisory is one room. Table is the other. There is no third door.
Two rooms only
The reading answers one question and closes. Table keeps that standard across sittings, for a principal who must still act after the page. Same door. Different length of stay.
Who is received
The principal. An officer with written authority. Advisers may hear. They do not instruct. A lobbyist may reach the door, and is not of the house.
What the house will not do
List a client. Repeat a discussion. Lend a name before the page exists. Sit as placement agent, nominee, or lobbyist.
Rooms
01 — Advisory
The reading
One matter. The counterparty, the structure, and the timing are read before a name is used. The page says proceed, reshape, or stand down.
- A transaction, a succession, a partnership
- Or where capital and public office meet
- Counsel does not sign, and does not stay to implement
- Closes when the page is written
02 — Table
The coaching
One principal. One counsel. Entrepreneurial coaching across a few sittings, taken only after the reading has found the matter in season.
- Not a cohort, a seminar, or a syllabus
- Not a seat a lobbyist can buy
- The gap between sittings is the work
- Ends when the principal can move alone
Matters
Transaction
A holding, a placement, a joint venture, or a quiet acquisition. Whether the paper matches the interest — and whether the interest should be shown at all.
Succession
Control passing inside a family, a firm, or a political house. Who holds the name next, and on what terms it may be used.
Partnership
A counterpart of equal weight. Purpose is read before terms. Unequal rooms are declined.
Crossing
Where a commercial decision touches office, or office touches a commercial name. The crossing is read before it is made. No intermediary in that room.
A sitting
The matter
As it stands this week. No recap of a programme, and no second matter taken in the same hour.
The constraint
Counterparty, cash, office, family, or timing. One constraint, not a list.
The move
What changes before the next sitting, and what must not be signed yet.
The close
The principal leaves with a decision. If nothing has moved, the next sitting is deferred.
An officer may attend with written authority. Advisers may be present. They do not instruct. A lobbyist is not an introduction, and does not remain.
Table
| Row | What it is | What it is not |
|---|---|---|
| 01 | One-to-one entrepreneurial coaching | A room of strangers |
| 02 | The principal’s own matter | A syllabus for whoever enrols |
| 03 | Judgement on the decision in front of them | Motivation as a product |
| 04 | By introduction. One engagement at a time | A lobbyist’s seat |
A lobbyist may carry a message to the door. The coaching is not theirs. Commission does not confer a seat.
Fee
Set after the introduction, against the name that cannot be unmarked and the cost of being wrong. Said once, in the room.
The advisory is paid whether the page says proceed or stand down. Refusal is the delivery, not a discount.
Table is a second fee, only if the matter is in season. Never a percentage. A cut would pay counsel to approve.
Entry
Introduction is the only route in. Unsolicited approaches are not reviewed.
Clients are not listed. Discussions are not repeated. There is no address for a first approach.