Sterling Pratt LLC
Sterling Pratt puts AI to work inside owner-operated companies. Executive and staff assistants, operating dashboards, and internal applications, built on your own documents, numbers, and playbooks. One operator, not an agency.
The constraint
Owner-operated companies rarely stall on strategy. They stall because the one person who can answer the question is the same person who has to close the books, approve the invoices, and rebuild the same report every Monday.
The numbers already exist. Every entity has its own books, its own system, and its own person who knows where things are kept. Pulling those into one honest view is a multi-day job, and it lands on the owner because there is nobody else it can land on.
What it looks like from the inside
What gets built
Four kinds of system. Which of them you actually need is what the diagnostic decides — and sometimes the answer is none of them.
An assistant that has read your operating agreements, vendor contracts, close checklist, and last year's numbers. Staff ask it before they ask you, and it answers in your naming, not a vendor's.
One view across every entity: same definitions, same period, same place. Refreshed on a schedule, so nobody rebuilds it and nobody argues about whose number is right.
The month-end sequence written down first, then automated where automation is safe. Approvals routed, exceptions surfaced, and the judgement calls left with the people who should be making them.
Small tools your team runs without me — intake, tracking, reporting. Built to your naming and handed over with the code, the prompts, and a runbook.
Track record
In the operating seat
Before that, institutional finance
Why the numbers can be trusted with your books
Figures from roles at Sterling Pratt LLC, Anchorage Digital, Bitstamp, Kraken, and Amelyore Digital Assets Fund. Detail available on request.
How an engagement runs
I sit in the business, read the books, and come back with the systems worth building — and the ones that are not.
The first system goes into daily use before the second one starts. Your numbers, your documents, your naming.
The playbook, the prompts, and the runbook are yours. Your people keep the judgement. The assistant keeps the paperwork.
Scope, price, and length are set per engagement. No packages, no retainer you stop noticing.
What I will tell you before you hire me
If the answer is a spreadsheet and a clear owner, I will say so and the engagement ends at the diagnostic. Most back-office problems are not AI problems. The ones that are, are worth building properly.
Fit
Where the experience comes from
| Firm | Role | Years |
|---|---|---|
| DWF Labs | Head of Business Development, OTC | 2026– |
| Sunscreen | Head of Investor Relations & BD | 2024–2025 |
| Amelyore Digital Assets Fund | Head of IR & BD · Research Analyst & PM | 2020–2024 |
| Anchorage Digital | Business Development, Institutional Sales | 2022–2023 |
| Bitstamp | Business Development, Strategic Partnerships | 2019–2021 |
| Kraken | Business Development, Institutional Sales | 2018–2019 |
| Sterling Pratt LLC | Founder, multi-site operator | 2015–2018 |
| Diversified Trust Company | Senior Associate, Strategy & Operations | 2013–2015 |
About
Sterling Pratt is the advisory practice of Ryan Sterling Spencer, in St. George, Utah. It puts AI to work inside owner-operated, multi-entity companies: executive and staff assistants, operating dashboards, and internal applications built on the company's own documents, numbers, and playbooks. Before that he ran multi-site consumer businesses with full P&L responsibility and spent thirteen years in institutional finance and data infrastructure.
The name comes from the .925 sterling standard. British silver was certified by small punched marks struck into the metal — a maker's mark and a standard mark, read as a sequence. That is an accurate description of the work: a small mark that certifies something meets a standard.
Contact
Bring one problem you already know is costing you time. I will tell you on the call whether it is worth a diagnostic, and what it would take.
Funds and family offices: I also take operating work — LP reporting, investor-relations workflows, and research infrastructure. It is not what this practice leads with, but it is available. Ask on the call.