Paul Bedford

Hi Paul, I built a short guide for investors on building your own proprietary deal database using Claude. it's free, here: screen.searchloop.ai. thought it might be useful for Litchfield.

thanks for connecting Paul. hospitality and food and drink look fun from the outside and are a grind underneath. probably why the founder-run, off market end stays so overlooked. the guide shows how to use claude code to surface the exact founder-run hospitality and food-and-drink targets you're after, before they're on anyone's radar. I've built it for 15 funds across the US and UK. happy to jump on a call and teach you the setup. R

Hi Paul — similar-ish background. I'm from Zim and was a banker doing M&A at Greenhill, then moved into growth equity in London. Now I build proprietary origination systems for funds like yours across fragmented UK businesses. Over the past 6 months, one of my systems surfaced 300+ off-market conversations with owners across 10 sectors. I've put them together: 322 UK companies open to sale. One that looked relevant for Litchfield Associates: A £5-10m vertically integrated beverage producer and hospitality operator managing an estate of over forty freehold and tenanted venues. Here's the link: https://sample.searchloop.ai/ Worth a quick call? I can walk through how I got this and share some of the actual names. — Russ linkedin.com/in/russellt23 PS: if this isn't relevant, reply no and I'll leave you in peace. might even go for a walk.

Hi Paul — similar-ish background. I'm from Zim and was a banker doing M&A at Greenhill, then moved into growth equity in London. Now I build proprietary origination systems for funds like yours across fragmented UK businesses. Over the past 6 months, one of my systems surfaced 300+ off-market conversations with owners across 10 sectors. I've put them together: 322 UK companies open to sale. One that looked relevant for Litchfield Associates: A £5-10m vertically integrated beverage producer and hospitality operator managing an estate of over forty freehold and tenanted venues. Here's the link: https://sample.searchloop.ai/ Worth a quick call? I can walk through how I got this and share some of the actual names. — Russ linkedin.com/in/russellt23 PS: if this isn't relevant, reply no and I'll leave you in peace. might even go for a walk.

Hi Paul — quick second note in case this got buried. The list is here: https://sample.searchloop.ai/ It is anonymised, but it should show the shape of the work: sector, scale, owner motivation, and enough to judge whether the source is useful for Litchfield Associates. Worth 15 mins to map what an origination loop could look like for Litchfield Associates? Useful whether you're moving on something now or just want a plan in your back pocket for the next 6-12 months. — Russ linkedin.com/in/russellt23 PS: if this isn't relevant, reply no and I'll leave you in peace. might even go for a walk.

Hi Paul — last nudge. The useful bit is not really the list. It is the system behind it: direct owner conversations, matched to buyer theses, across fragmented UK sectors. One more example that mapped to Litchfield Associates: A £2-5m creative agency providing bespoke content production and artistic solutions for a diverse portfolio of professional and individual clients. Worth 15 mins to map what an origination loop could look like? Useful whether you're moving now or just want a plan in your back pocket for the next 6-12 months. — Russ linkedin.com/in/russellt23 PS: if this isn't relevant, reply no and I'll leave you in peace. might even go for a walk.

Paul — I'll leave it there. Link's here if useful later: https://sample.searchloop.ai/ — Russ linkedin.com/in/russellt23 PS: if this isn't relevant, reply no and I'll leave you in peace. might even go for a walk.