Paris, Île-de-France, France
If you're sick of your work being plagiarised, or appearing in LLMs without being paid, this is for you. Publishing is bleeding money (but pretending it isn’t). Every great industry has infrastructure. Music has ASCAP, BMI & SACEM. Finance has clearinghouses. Film has guilds. Publishing has nothing. This absence is why content is copied, scraped, and reused without value flowing back to those who created it. It’s why: ❌ Writers don’t get royalties. ❌ Publishers don’t track where their content goes. 🏴☠️ AI companies feast on pirated content, laughing at copyright law. And the industry’s big idea? Stick up another praywall and hope for the best. I built Writers’ Bloc because hope isn’t a business model. Instead, we're building the missing layer of infrastructure for publishing. Our vision: Every article fingerprinted at creation Every reuse tracked transparently Every creator and publisher compensated fairly We give independent publishers and freelance journalists the tools to: 👉 Protect your IP (digital fingerprints + blockchain-backed evidence) 👉 License your work (simple, automated contracts + dashboards) 👉 Monetise your archive + content catalogues (from syndication to AI training sets) I didn’t come from a newsroom. I came from business development, sales, and media rights. My background isn’t in journalism. It’s in solving messy business problems: At Bloc Inc. (acquired by Chegg), I helped unlock $2M+ in student enrolments & brought on 30 mentors from NASA, Boeing, and beyond. At DCC plc, I turned “never again” clients in repeat customers, scaled regional sales 2.5x, and made targeted acquisitions across energy divisions. At Ace Point Capital, following my MSc in Finance, I worked on film + music rights-backed financing deals; my first deep dive into media IP. Today, my mission is to bring proven models from other industries into publishing, before another decade of value leaks away. 👉 Join the waitlist for early access: https://forms.gle/T8hpAtBdv3fq9UJe8 👉 Sign-up to our free newsletter for business advice and insights: https://writers-bloc.beehiiv.com/ 👉 Or just follow along as I share what we’re learning at Writers’ Bloc. -- Other bits + pieces: 🎓 MSc. Corporate Financial Management; SKEMA Business School, Paris. 🎓 Bachelor of Commerce International (with Italian) at UCD. What gets me out of bed: Behavioural science (people doing weird stuff for counter-intuitive reasons) Blockchain / web3 Anything that flies I also like to play the piano and I'm a sports fanatic 🫨 Irish living in France 🇮🇪 🇫🇷
30K+ publishers and 1M+ journalists lose billions globally every day, to AI systems that have trained on their work without permission or payment. Writers' Bloc is the mechanism that turns your articles into assets: fingerprint your archive, prove it's yours, track where it travels across the web and in AI output, then charge for the use, including per-visit billing for the bots on your site. Built on 450+ industry interviews. Our demo is live at demo.writersbloc.eu Join the waitlist to get early access is open now https://getlaunchlist.com/pages/writers-bloc
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Analyst on the Innovation & New Business Development team; assist in transition towards new markets, focused around Energy Services. Duties include: Position Butagaz in new markets outside of core Gas & Electricity business. Primary focus is around transitioning to provide energy services, targeting markets such as boiler installation, maintenance & repair, roof & floor insulation, solar & photovoltaics, wood pellets, etc. Identify opportunities for Butagaz to exploit by evaluating various energy provision and conservation markets across France. Contribute to Merger & Acquisition projects which emerge through any opportunities identified in market analysis. Update the team on any major energy trends in France and globally.