I make complicated things simple.

For 25 years, I have led brand, communications, technology, and product work for organizations with difficult stories to tell and important work to move forward.

Brand Strategy · Digital Experience · AI Systems · Executive Communications · B2B Marketing
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AI and digital product

I design and build AI systems: agentic platforms, digital products, and the workflows that run them

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Brand and growth

Brand strategy, positioning, and go-to-market work for organizations that need to be understood before they can grow.

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Corporate communications

Clear communication for public companies, healthcare systems, financial institutions, and organizations navigating change.

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Executive leadership

Strong teams, accountable budgets, and the work required to turn strategy into something the organization can actually execute.

Strategy matters. Shipping matters more.

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AVA

A real estate platform for brokerages and agents, rebuilt in 2026 on an agentic AI architecture.

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AVA Luxury Reels

An iOS app that turns listing photography into finished marketing video. Available in the App Store.

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ConstructionOS

An operations platform for construction firms, including an AI module that reads architectural drawings.

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Ask the Bible

A nonprofit app trained on original Greek and Hebrew manuscripts, with no commentary layered on top.

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OmniConductor

An agentic framework for digital employees that work across surfaces and models, learn as they go, and carry persistent memory. Built to get real work done, not to chat.

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GreyBack

A custom CMS with deep support for content aggregation, organization management, and custom configuration.

THE FILM
Less Than
A DOCUMENTARY ON POVERTY IN AMERICA

A story people would rather not face.

United Way commissioned Less Than, a documentary about poverty in America. The challenge was to make the subject personal without making the organization appear partisan. I produced, filmed, and edited the project. It received multiple film festival awards and is now distributed worldwide, with availability on Prime Video.

The assignment was the same one I have faced throughout my career: take something complicated, make it clear, and give people a reason to care.

Marketing is becoming a systems discipline.

For many companies, belief has to come before revenue. Startups, infrastructure companies, and organizations entering unfamiliar markets cannot treat marketing as a support function. The story shapes how investors, customers, employees, and the market understand the business.

The tools are changing too. Marketing leaders are moving from commissioning campaigns to designing the systems that produce and improve them. The strongest leaders will understand the brand, the technology, and the operating model behind both.

Patrick Kemp

The short version.

Most organizations do not lack a story. They struggle to make people understand why it matters.

For more than 25 years, I have helped solve that problem at the intersection of marketing and technology.

I started in 2001 with responsibility for both IT and marketing at an architecture firm in Dallas. I have worked across both disciplines ever since.

I later joined the senior executive staff at Trinity Fellowship, overseeing creative, media technology, marketing, and retail operations. When the organization outsourced its creative and advertising work, that engagement became the foundation of ThreeLeaf.

ThreeLeaf grew into an advertising, digital, and software firm serving financial institutions, hospital systems, public companies, nonprofits, colleges, and startups. I led brand and communications as an agency partner to Happy State Bank through a period of rapid growth. I architected communications for United Regional’s Epic transition, directed custom software projects, and produced a United Way-commissioned documentary that received worldwide distribution.

I have also rebuilt brands for publicly traded companies, where every word had to stand up to investors, regulators, employees, and the market.

Different industries. Same job: take something complicated and make people care about it.

Today, as CTO and CMO of Realty Dots, I have led an AI real estate platform from seed financing through complex real estate regulations to product launch and statewide deployment, then rebuilt it on an agentic AI architecture. I also launched AVA Luxury Reels, an AI video product available in the App Store. Through ThreeLeaf Digital, I design multi-agent AI systems that automate real marketing and operations work, and I train leaders to use them.

I am at my best tackling difficult problems, leading strong teams, and bringing brand, technology, communications, and execution together. I am interested in work that matters and the opportunity to build it with good people.

EDUCATION

Texas A&M University, University Studies
Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, Graduate Studies in Theology

RECOGNITION

ADDY Award winner at the district and national levels. More than 50 design and creativity awards, including consecutive Best in Show honors.

CONTACT

Let's talk.

I am open to conversations about senior leadership opportunities, difficult problems, and meaningful work.

PAST CLIENTS
HAPPY STATE BANK CITIZENS, INC. UNITED REGIONAL HEALTH CARE SYSTEM BAPTIST ST. ANTHONY'S HEALTH SYSTEM AMERICAN NATIONAL BANK & TRUST UNION SQUARE CREDIT UNION TECTONIC FINANCIAL T BANK, N.A. UNITED WAY TRINITY FELLOWSHIP MCDONALD'S PLANET FITNESS HONDA GMC MASSAGE ENVY COMET CLEANERS GRAND BANK OF TEXAS POISON CONTROL CENTERS YOUNG LIFE UNITED SUPERMARKETS CICA LIFE NORTHWESTERN MUTUAL MIDWESTERN STATE UNIVERSITY AG REAL ESTATE BISHOP REALTOR GROUP AVA REALTY DOTS, INC. ANCHOR D BANK CARDIOLOGY CENTER CARPETONE CHOPCHOP COLLECTIVE COFFEE CROSSROADS CHURCH CUNNINGHAM CLARK DUMAS ISD FIRST NATIONAL BANK GRUVER STATE BANK HILLSIDE CHRISTIAN HIDEAWAY EXPERIENCE MARRIAGESTRONG REMAX KELLER WILLIAMS RYAN PALMER FOUNDATION ROASTERS COFFEE PALACE COFFEE SWGC STEELWOOD TOOT'N TOTUM UPSAHW INSURANCE PIA INSURANCE USA FEEDYARDS CAVINESS BEEF PACKERS YMCA

These brands represent work completed for national organizations, regional partners, dealerships, local operators, and independently owned franchisees.