Wealth management and financial services
Turn AI ambition into governed, working capabilities.
AI experiments are easy to start. Making them part of how a firm works takes strategy, governance, a ready data and infrastructure environment, and sustained delivery. Vaughn Harvey & Co works alongside your leaders to connect those pieces, from direction and design through implementation and ongoing support.
Our purpose is to make the internal owner successful: better work, accountable AI, and capabilities the firm can own and sustain.
- Running now: a 90-day AI transformation program at a growth-stage fintech.
- AI platform strategy and governance for two insurance and retirement businesses through a merger.
- Built by a former Chief Data & AI Officer at LPL Financial, with Fortune 100 data and AI leadership including JPMorgan.
Govern the AI, reimagine the work, enable the people
- 01
Govern the AI.
Trust, standards and control at scale.
Guardrails before go-live, model and cost governance, intake for tools and connectors, and one maturity score the board can read. Governance is a design input, not a later gate.
- 02
Reimagine the work.
Efficiency lives in the workflow, not the point solution.
One repeatable method that takes a pattern proven in one line and carries it into the lines that still need to ignite, with a business case Finance can use.
- 03
Enable the people.
Adoption that is owned and measured.
Champions chosen on criteria and re-seated on usage, proficiency defined role by role, rules of engagement published, and a learning path the firm can run itself.
The first 100 days of an AI program are decided by the operating model, not the tools.
Four ways to work with us
Fractional leadership
Fractional Chief AI Officer and senior support.
A standing leadership seat, with senior support matched to AI strategy, infrastructure and tooling: priorities, structure and the hard conversations, behind the internal owner.
Playbook transfer
Playbook transfer.
Install a method with the committee and champions in working sessions, run it once together, then step back.
Program
Program.
A scoped 90-day program with named outcomes, a senior bench, and monthly deliverables and tollgates. A foundation for delivery, not an assessment that stops at a report.
Build
Build, install and maintain.
A transformation pod that takes the design and its technical foundation into a governed, running capability; installation and ongoing support scoped as the work progresses.
From program to working capability
01
Program
Agree the target state, priorities and business case.
02
Build
Develop the capabilities and the foundation they need.
03
Install
Integrate, clear governance, pilot and drive adoption.
04
Maintain
Own, monitor, support and improve what goes live.
Each phase is a separate decision, scoped to the firm's needs.
See the four phases applied to one use case: an advisor's working day.
Explore the proposed Anthropic Advisor Desktop work →How an engagement is shaped
- Outcomes, not activities.
- Each phase has named deliverables and a dated milestone. Invoices map to what landed, never to hours.
- Design in the window, build next.
- Ninety days lands designed, costed, ready-to-build work. A pod builds it as a separate decision, with its own end.
- Finance-usable numbers from day one.
- Cycle time, cost to serve, quality, capacity released and consumption per user, carried from design to business case to renewal.
- Behind the internal owner.
- Your leadership owns direction and decisions. We have no interest in the seat and never sit on both sides of a buying decision.
- Independent.
- No vendor allegiance, no provider compensation. Vendor-neutral on model and platform: the method runs on the stack you already have.
Start with a first-100-days working session. One afternoon with the leader and the committee; a 100-day plan the leader owns.
Book a working session