As artificial intelligence continues to reshape personal finance, measuring its real-world impact on consumers is becoming increasingly important. Prosprous.ai has appointed Mae Watson Grote as Senior Advisor to strengthen its impact strategy, partnership development, and outcome measurement efforts while expanding equitable AI-powered financial solutions for underserved communities.
Prosprous.ai has appointed Mae Watson Grote as Senior Advisor.
Grote will lead initiatives around impact strategy, partnership development, and financial outcome measurement.
The company focuses on AI-native personal finance tools that promote financial well-being and inclusion.
Grote brings more than 20 years of experience spanning fintech, financial health, public policy, and economic mobility.
Her appointment supports Prosprous.ai's mission to build trusted, equitable, AI-powered financial services.
The company aims to strengthen collaborations with financial institutions, nonprofits, and community organizations.
Mae Watson Grote joins Prosprous.ai with more than two decades of leadership experience across fintech, consumer financial health, public policy, and economic mobility.
She founded and led Change Machine, a financial health technology platform that expanded from a local pilot into a nationwide system supporting more than 13,000 practitioners across approximately 4,000 partner organizations. During her leadership, the platform generated $83 million in measurable financial value for clients before being acquired by Prosperity Now.
At Prosprous.ai, Grote will collaborate with the leadership team to integrate impact measurement into product development and partnership strategies. Her responsibilities include developing frameworks for assessing consumer financial outcomes while expanding relationships with financial institutions, community-based organizations, researchers, and stakeholders focused on inclusive financial innovation.
"Mae has spent her career asking the question that matters most to Prosprous.ai: how do we know financial technology is actually improving people’s lives?" said Ted Leung, Co-founder and CTO of Prosprous.ai. "Her deep experience building evidence-based systems, translating financial health outcomes into product strategy, and working across nonprofit, policy, financial services, and technology ecosystems will be invaluable as we scale trusted AI guidance through mission-aligned partners."
Prosprous.ai is developing AI-native personal finance tools designed to improve financial well-being, resilience, and financial literacy through equitable and inclusive technology. The company places a strong emphasis on accountability, trusted data practices, and measurable consumer outcomes.
"AI is transforming how people access, understand, and act on financial information, but the technology will only build trust if it is accountable to real consumer outcomes," said Mae Watson Grote. "Prosprous.ai is designing for that accountability from the beginning: clear guidance, trusted data use, culturally responsive experiences, and measurable improvements in household financial well-being. I’m excited to help build partnerships and impact infrastructure that make that promise real."
In addition to joining Prosprous.ai, Grote serves as a Nonresident Fellow in the Urban Institute's Family & Financial Well-Being Division, where she focuses on fintech, consumer behavior, market trends, and financial health measurement.
Her previous leadership roles include serving on the Federal Reserve Bank of New York's Community Advisory Group and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's Consumer Advisory Board. Her expertise spans artificial intelligence, digital financial services, applied AI, product strategy, fintech, and public policy.
The appointment reinforces Prosprous.ai's commitment to building AI-powered financial tools that combine innovation with measurable improvements in consumer financial well-being while expanding partnerships that support inclusive economic opportunity.
About Prosprous.ai
Prosprous.ai is building trusted, AI-native personal finance tools designed for real human behavior. The company’s public benefit purpose is to improve financial well-being, resilience, and literacy for underserved individuals and communities by developing and delivering equitable, AI-powered personal finance tools that are accessible, inclusive, and designed to promote long-term behavioral change and economic opportunity.
