Patrick Upside Down · Mount Shasta

Hi.
I'm Patrick.
I help humans figure out systems and move forward on their path.
Right now I'm making Unstuck, Ovum, and running ThriveSports.
I'm also assembling people at the table.
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At the table · 2026

I help humans figure out systems and move forward on their path.

These are the products I'm building — and the people I'm gathering. Some are mine. Some are partnerships. All of them are open invitations.

If any of this looks like the room you’re trying to walk into — or like a seat at a table you’re building — bring the brief.

How the work gets made

Design. Systems. Humans.

Three things underneath every project. A fourth one — the journey — holds them together. The marks in the corners are how I keep track of which is leading the conversation.

01

Design

Strategy · Identity · Motion

Senior design at the table for the rooms where the brand actually gets made. The decisions that get touched a million times and remembered as a feeling.

02

Systems

Product · Engineering · Scale

I thrive inside complex systems. Helping teams shape ideas, streamline workflows, and turn vision into something real, usable, and human. Idea-stage to scalable.

03

Humans

Voice · Trust · Practice

Worth matters more than worthlessness. We are all just people trying to matter to each other. That part comes first — the craft is in service of it.

04

Journey

Story · Path · Direction

The work has a beginning, a middle, and a deadline. I help teams keep the thread between them — and stay legible when the path bends.

STRATEGY · DESIGN · STORY · STRATEGY · DESIGN · STORY ·

Twenty-plus years inside the rooms where the brand actually gets made. Senior design at the table — strategy, identity, product, motion, story. Not a deck. A working partnership.

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What it's
actually like.

I open the conversation by asking a question you weren't going to answer in your kickoff doc.

I push back early, then I shut up and make the thing. Quietly. On time.

When you see the first round, you're going to recognize your own idea — bigger, sharper, and weirder than you let yourself say out loud.

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A few rooms I've been in

Currently open for new work

Got something
that wants out?

The weird ones, the ambitious ones, the ones with a deadline yesterday. Bring it.

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