The architecture practice
Solve is an architecture practice for entertainment careers. An architect designs the whole structure and calls in specialists to build each part: a law firm for one jurisdiction, an accountant for the numbers, a race team for a motorsport venture. Solve doesn't try to replace those specialists, or own them. Its job is the design and the coordination, so nothing falls into a gap.
Since 2017
Founded in Singapore in 2017, Solve started as legal counsel to a handful of independent labels and grew into the structure now sitting behind entire careers: companies, contracts, capital, and the ventures that outlast any single deal.
Both rooms
The people inside Solve move between boardrooms, term sheets, and the rooms where the creative work happens, in the same week. That range is deliberate. An architect who never leaves the blueprint is not much use on site.
The firm is the architect
Sam Padbidri founded Solve and leads it today, but the model is built to run past any one person. The architect is the firm: a small group of operators, lawyers, and dealmakers who design each structure together and hold every specialist they bring in to the same standard.
The test
The test for each mandate is simple: does the talent own something real at the end of it, or a name with someone else's fingerprints on it. Solve exists to make sure it's the real thing.