Some people
build audiences.
Some people
change what
people do next.
We have always been interested in the second kind.
SEA finds influence with somewhere to go.
People · Places · Ventures
Explore SEA↓The people we remember
aren't always the loudest.
Neither are the places.
They're the ones we return to.
The ones we tell someone about.
The ones that change what we choose,
where we go,
what we buy,
or what we imagine for ourselves.
Influence has never belonged only to influencers.
We're less interested
in what you post.
We're interested in
why people come back.
The Work
Before ventures,
there was representation.
We scouted.
Positioned.
Packaged.
Negotiated.
Built.
Repositioned.
And sometimes helped people become something entirely different from where they began.
35+ Creator Businesses · 1,000+ Projects · $2.5M+ in Commercial Business
That work became our education in how human influence creates value.
Representation in Practice
A personal milestone became a new market.
Bridal → Lifestyle → Motherhood
A career in sport became a business beyond it.
Athlete → Creator → Commercial Talent
An emerging idea became a category.
Niche → Positioning → Market
Growth came from knowing where to go deeper.
Audience → Trust → Commercial Value
Influence traveled far beyond where it began.
Creator → Media → Brand → Culture
One career became many.
Talent → Creator → Entrepreneur
Along the way.
Hundreds of negotiations. Thousands of decisions. One recurring lesson:
Attention isn't the asset.
Trust is.
And trust can build much more than a campaign.
SEA Ventures · What Comes Next
From campaigns to companies.
We look for the intersection of
Person
Who has earned unusual trust?
Human
What does their community actually need?
Market
Where is there meaningful commercial opportunity?
Product
What deserves to exist?
Ownership
Who should participate in the value created?
Not another endorsement.
Something worth building.
Products · Collaborations · Licensing · Partnerships · New Businesses
SEA Ventures is currently exploring a small number of opportunities with people whose audience, authority and point of view suggest something larger.
Build With SEA→SEA People
Influence begins with people.
SEA was built around discovering people early —
sometimes before the market knew what to call them.
Today, we work with people more selectively.
Not because we're interested in building a larger roster.
Because we're interested in going deeper.
Development · Positioning · Commercial Strategy · Collaborations · Ventures
Influence with somewhere to go.
Explore the Work→
SEA Places · The Next Territory
Some places have influence.
You save them.
You photograph them.
You tell people about them.
You travel for them.
And sometimes, years later, you still remember exactly how you felt there.
What if we thought about places the way we think about people?
Hotels · Stays · Destinations · Venues · Retreats · Events · Experiences
We are interested in what already exists beneath the room rate:
the rituals,
the recommendations,
the objects,
the community,
the experiences,
the stories,
the partnerships,
the products,
and the things that haven't been imagined yet.
We scout places with somewhere to go.
Partnerships · Experiences · Products · Programming · Ventures
We're currently meeting owners and operators and selecting a small number of places to explore with us.
Invite Us In→A Field Study by Ashley Powell
Do you know where influence lives?
SEA founder Ashley Powell has spent more than two decades working across talent, casting, advertising, fashion, retail, real estate, creators and culture — studying what makes people pay attention, trust, choose and act.
Now she's taking the question into the world.
People · Places · Markets · Rituals · Businesses
Follow the Field Notes→About
SEA has always been about seeing something early.
It began with people.
Creators whose influence extended beyond their following.
Athletes whose careers could become something larger.
Women whose audiences followed them from one chapter of life into another.
Along the way, we learned something.
The most interesting opportunity wasn't always the next deal.
Today, SEA is evolving from traditional management toward ventures — exploring how influence can become products, partnerships, experiences, businesses and ownership.
And we're expanding the question beyond people. Because influence can live somewhere, too.
People · Places · Ventures
Representation taught us how influence works.
Now we're interested in what influence can build.
Something here?
We work selectively. If you're a creator with an idea, an owner with an extraordinary place, a company looking for an unconventional partner, or someone who sees an opportunity we should know about—
we should probably talk.
Tell Us About It→What are we talking about?