About
jacob.keller@jbkresearch.orgLinkedInNew York
I'm Jacob Keller, an AI forward deployed engineer in financial services, based in New York. I work closely with private markets firms and their portfolio companies to implement the latest in AI and technology.
Outside of that I do independent research and build my own projects under the name JBK Research, mostly at the intersection of markets, technology, and policy.
Background
- CrestPoint Strategic Advisors — AI Forward Deployed Engineer
- Jun 2026 – present
- Working closely with private markets firms and their portfolio companies to implement the latest in AI and technology: AI adoption and governance, vendor selection, and agentic workflows for front- and back-office teams.
- Ruth Investment — AI Consultant, GTM and General
- Jun 2025 – present
- AI-enabled pipelines and tools for research, data analysis, content generation, and web design, with a focus on the go-to-market team.
- TheHouse.xyz — AI Solutions Engineer
- Jan 2026 – Apr 2026
- A deal underwriting platform and an AI data-extraction pipeline for commercial real estate.
- Applecart
- Nov 2024 – Apr 2025
- Stakeholder research and analysis, including new ways of bringing untapped public data sources into business intelligence.
- University of Pennsylvania — B.A., Biology and Philosophy (Philosophy & Science concentration)
- 2023
- Research assistant in the Paul Schmidt Laboratory for Ecological and Evolutionary Genetics, 2020 – 2022.
How I work
I work AI-natively, but the citations are real and the analysis is mine. The subjects I return to are markets, AI and agents, and urban policy, along with the occasional cross-sector synthesis.
Contact
Email is best: jacob.keller@jbkresearch.org. I'm also on LinkedIn, and there's a contact form.