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Company

Built by communications professionals.

Mission
Earned authority, produced at the velocity brands need to break through and be found.

PAiR co-founders Kate Brennan and Liz Whelan

The co-founders, Chicago

Our story

Where PAiR came from.

PAiR began inside a working agency. Real clients, real deadlines, real placements to land.

We watched the legacy model strain from the inside. Retainers that bill for junior hours, weekly cycles chasing an hourly news cycle, and a brand-new blind spot nobody was pricing in, the AI engines that now stand between brands and the people asking about them.

So we built the platform we wished existed, and ran it quietly on our own book of business before we ever gave it a name. Agents took over the production, the watching, the research, the first drafts, and our practitioners kept what was always theirs. Judgment. The placements followed. Then something new followed the placements. AI answers began citing the coverage we placed, traceable link by link.

That loop, earn the story, be seen by people, be found by machines, is what PAiR exists to run. We believe PR is the most powerful business success engine a company can have, and we built PAiR so brands experience PR at full power.

Years of PR

50

Across the two co-founders

Years building software

25

Startups and enterprise, seven in AI

Founders

3

One platform, one practice

Leadership

50 years of PR. 25 of building software.

Who you will actually work with

Technology

Secure by design.

Secure multi-tenant architecture, endpoint security, live 24/7 monitoring, enterprise-grade authentication, and patent applications in process.

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