# Seastone Associates

> Seastone Associates is an AI product strategy and advisory firm for financial services and FinTech. We help banks, lenders, payments companies, and capital-markets firms turn AI ambition into products customers trust, from strategy through shipped product. Every engagement is led by a principal, Eric Kapfhammer, who has built and shipped AI products inside these businesses.

## About
- Independent, principal-led AI product strategy and advisory firm.
- Focus industries: banking & lending, payments & FinTech, and capital markets.
- Remote-first; serving teams globally.
- Contact: use the form at https://seastoneassociates.com/contact/. Replies within two business days.

## Services
- **AI product strategy & roadmapping**: Separate the AI ideas that move the business from those that only demo well; produce a sequenced roadmap with clear bets and trade-offs.
- **Discovery & validation**: Pressure-test demand, feasibility, and data readiness before committing engineering months to a build.
- **Use-case selection & evaluation**: Choose use cases worth pursuing, design honest evaluation, and set quality and safety guardrails.
- **Delivery assurance**: Independent oversight for the last mile: launch-readiness reviews, rollout plans, vendor and delivery-team oversight, and the measurement that proves impact.

## Engagement models
- **Advisory**: Ongoing, light-touch thinking partner for product leadership.
- **Project**: Fixed-scope work with a defined deliverable, over weeks.
- **Fractional**: Interim product leadership embedded with your team for months.

## Leadership
- **Eric Kapfhammer, Founder & Principal.** Career at the intersection of finance, data, and applied AI. Led a data-science team in Microsoft's Cloud & AI security division; nearly two decades as a quantitative portfolio manager and researcher in the capital markets; founder of venture-backed FinTech companies, including an investment platform grown from $5M to more than $250M in assets under management.

## Pages
- Home: https://seastoneassociates.com/
- What We Do: https://seastoneassociates.com/what-we-do/
- About: https://seastoneassociates.com/about/
- Leadership: https://seastoneassociates.com/leadership/
- Contact: https://seastoneassociates.com/contact/

## Links
- LinkedIn (company): https://www.linkedin.com/company/seastone-associates
- LinkedIn (founder): https://www.linkedin.com/in/eric-kapfhammer