Our Work

Client: A Tier 2 US commercial bank with an established AI program and mature traditional model risk framework. 

Need: The bank was deploying agentic AI systems that act, delegate, remember, and call tools autonomously, and needed to understand its governance posture for audit purposes. 

• Developed agentic AI governance assessment framework and scoped agentic deployments for review.
• Held stakeholder interviews across risk, engineering, compliance, product and vendor management.
• Reviewed architecture files and conducted agentic AI governance assessment across all agentic deployments.
• Produced a control-plane mapping and NIST AI RMF crosswalk.
• Compiled in-depth findings report and a 90-day remediation roadmap.
• Developed standardized agentic AI governance review and diagnostic tool.

Client received an in-depth assessment that surfaced three material gaps, as well as a 90-day roadmap that sized each gap by effort and impact, providing key stakeholders with a prioritized, executive-ready remediation path.

As a result of this engagement, NextFi launched a new standardized agentic AI governance review and assessment tool built on our agentic AI governance framework.

Client: Mid‑stage B2B cross‑border payments infrastructure provider serving banks and financial institutions. 

Need: Leadership needed to understand whether—and how—to add stablecoins as a rail without undermining their bank‑first positioning, and to quantify the risk of doing nothing. 

• Produced a comprehensive market intelligence briefing on global stablecoin adoption by banks, card networks, neobanks, and corporates, with focus on transaction volumes, use cases, and regulatory clarity.
• Quantified competitive threats from fintechs, retailers, and bank consortium initiatives, including potential revenue erosion if stablecoins became the default rail. 
• Designed three low friction entry use cases—FI treasury liquidity, high pain corridors, and mass payouts—leveraging the client’s existing architecture and compliance stack. 
• Defined a 90 day pilot program, budget, and partnership model with regulated issuers, custodians, and liquidity providers.

The client gained a clear, quantified view of stablecoins as a next competitive lever, a low‑risk pilot roadmap, and a 12‑month window for early‑mover advantage anchored in existing network contracts. 

Client: Web3 infrastructure company with Layer 2 blockchain capabilities and deep gaming/esports and creator‑economy relationships.

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Need: The client had strong L2 and user acquisition capabilities but limited exposure to institutional finance. Leadership wanted to understand how they could extend into real‑world asset (RWA) tokenization without losing focus on their core Web3 infrastructure and creator ecosystems.

• Structured a strategic partnership model with regulated digital asset platforms to combine the client’s L2 infrastructure and network‑effect expertise with institutional‑grade custody, compliance, and distribution.
• Identified verticals where the client had unique edge—gaming/esports, creator IP, and digital infrastructure—and translated those into concrete tokenization concepts and asset types.
• Built detailed use cases (e.g., esports team equity, gaming studio revenue share, music catalog royalties, podcast network revenue tokens), including illustrative economics and revenue streams for the client.
• ​Developed a 12‑month roadmap spanning partnership foundation, pilot execution, and scale (with explicit milestones, KPIs, and revenue model components).

• Reframed RWA tokenization as a natural extension of the client’s existing capabilities rather than a strategic pivot.
• Provided a credible path into institutional markets leveraging proprietary deal flow and community reach in gaming and creator segments.
• Equipped leadership with a concrete partnership and execution plan suitable for investor discussions and internal prioritization.