Patrick Dalvinck

CEO & Co-Founder

Founder voice on agentic AI, bid governance, and sales leadership.

Patrick Dalvinck is the founder of SEQUESTO. He built the platform after watching bid teams spend years assembling the same responses, constrained by tools that treated knowledge as static files rather than governable assets. Patrick holds the conviction that agentic AI belongs in high-stakes commercial work only when humans retain strategy and judgment. He speaks openly about the trade-offs SEQUESTO has made: choosing governance over speed, structured knowledge over unstructured retrieval, and institutional control over algorithmic autonomy. His writing reflects the founder's stake in category creation. Patrick works directly with pursuit managers and bid directors to ensure the platform serves the governance requirements their organisations actually hold.

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Agentic AIBid governanceCategory creationFounder perspective

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Writing

Articles by Patrick Dalvinck

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RFP Response

How to cut RFP turnaround time

24 Jun 2026

The questionnaire response process
Questionnaire Response

The questionnaire response process: answer once, reuse across every deal

4 Jun 2026

The RFP response process
RFP Response

The RFP response process: how winning bid teams work from intake to submission

4 Jun 2026

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Bid Management

5 Best RFP Response Automation Software Solutions of 2026 | Reviews and Features

5 Feb 2026

Speaking

Webinars featuring Patrick Dalvinck

Four tenders at once, one cross-border team
45 min
RFP ResponsesTender ManagementBid Management

Four tenders at once, one cross-border team

A consultant’s account of what actually holds a bid response together when the languages, the deadlines and the team all multiply at once.

Patrick DalvinckJo Hillman