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I help mid-market and enterprise organizations consolidate fragmented digital platforms, stand up product operating models that hold, and get real outcomes from AI. Twenty-five years of doing this inside large regulated institutions, and hands-on enough to build it with you rather than hand you a deck.
Who I Am
Strategy that's been stress-tested
Framepath Partners is a boutique advisory practice built on a simple premise: the best digital transformation advice comes from someone who has actually done it, not just advised on it.
I am Ben Fider. I spent 25 years in the rooms where digital transformation decisions get made, directing multi-million dollar technology portfolios, building digital teams from ten people to forty, and navigating the kind of organizational change that keeps executives up at night.
What makes this practice different is the combination. I have sat in the SVP chair, most recently as SVP of Digital at a Fortune 500 life and annuity carrier. I have also built production AI applications from scratch, including consumer-facing products developed from the ground up. That dual fluency is rare, and it is why I can work on a platform consolidation and a shipped application in the same engagement.
"Most consultants have done one or the other: strategy or building. I have done both. That is not a talking point. It is the work."
- 25 years leading digital inside large regulated financial institutions, including an SVP of Digital role and six years at Ameriprise Financial
- Directed a $25M+ annual technology portfolio with consistent double-digit growth outcomes
- Consolidated multiple legacy content platforms onto a single enterprise DXP
- Built an in-house UX organization covering research, prototyping, usability testing, and front-end development
- Hands-on AI application development, from consumer apps to enterprise platforms
- Based in Excelsior, Minnesota, serving clients nationally
What I Do
Four ways I create value
I work in focused engagements. No bloated teams, no junior consultants doing the work. When you engage Framepath Partners, you get senior expertise from day one.
Platform Strategy & Modernization
Consolidating fragmented digital platforms into a single governed environment, and building the multi-year roadmap and investment case that gets it funded. This is the work of deciding what to keep, what to retire, and where the recovered licensing and maintenance spend should go instead.
Product Operating Model & Delivery
Moving digital organizations from project-based delivery to persistent product teams with clear ownership, real roadmaps, and measurable KPIs. Includes the delivery infrastructure that makes a backlog legible to the executives who fund it.
Executive Advisory & Fractional CDO
Senior digital leadership for organizations that need judgment and pace without the full-time overhead. Senior enough to push back when strategy drifts, close enough to the work to help fix it.
Customer Experience & Content Operations
Aligning the experience across web, service, and sales channels, including personalization, experimentation, and the content operations that keep it current without a queue in front of every change.
AI is how the work gets delivered, not a separate service line. I run an AI-assisted delivery environment connecting design systems, analytics, project management, and deployment, and I have shipped production applications with real data integrations. That makes me useful on where AI genuinely changes delivery, and candid about where it does not.
Perspective
How I think
Practical observations from the intersection of executive strategy and hands-on AI implementation. No vendor spin. No theoretical frameworks. Just what I've seen work. One theme connects all of it: the highest-value application of AI in the enterprise is not automation. It is eliminating the translation layers between the people who have questions and the systems that have answers.
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Get In Touch
Let's start a conversation
I take on a limited number of engagements to ensure every client gets genuine senior attention. Whether you're leading a large-scale transformation or trying to turn a great idea into a working product, if the problem is worth solving, I'd like to hear about it.
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- ServingClients Nationally
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