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Questions, answered.
The things people most often want to know about an introduction from this office.
- Did this email actually come from a person?
- Yes. Each introduction is read, written, signed, and sent by Joe Parker. There is no team behind the message and no automated sequence. If something in the email reads as specific to your situation, that is because someone watched your stage play out before and wrote you about it.
- Why did this come from you and not someone I already know?
- Because the pattern you're in is one we've watched in adjacent businesses, and the people you already know are working from inside the same view. The introduction is what's available from a few rooms over.
- How is this paid for?
- Free for you. The practitioner on the other side pays the office only if the introduction turns into work. So we are paid to recognize patterns accurately, not to send more introductions.
- How did you find me?
- We follow specific industries in the course of our own work. When the pattern you're in matches one we've seen solved before, we draft the introduction. You were not pulled from a list.
- Are we on a list?
- No. We don't run lists. We follow specific businesses in the course of our own work and write when the pattern shows up. If the timing's wrong, we make a one-line note so we don't write you twice.
- Will my information be passed to the practitioner without my consent?
- No. The introduction email comes to you first. Nothing moves forward without your reply confirming you'd like to be introduced.
- What does 'pattern' actually mean?
- A specific business situation we have watched play out across many companies. Hiring the wrong role too early. Pricing like a freelancer years after stopping. Growth stalling the quarter the best person left. The pattern is the recognizable moment - the introduction is to whoever's already solved it.
- What if the timing is wrong?
- You don't reply. We send one short follow-up to make sure the email landed cleanly, and that's the end of it. You don't get added to a list.
- How do I confirm the email is real?
- The signature names the office and links to this site. The booking link routes to a calendar listing the same person's name. The simplest test is to book the call.
- I would like to be represented by Maple. How does that work?
- If your work solves a recognizable pattern and we've watched you solve it more than once, the next step is a short conversation. If we haven't seen your work, the conversation is longer - we don't represent practitioners we haven't watched do the work.
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Still want to confirm? Fifteen minutes is enough.
Make the introduction