Amelia S. Gagne
CEO of Kief Studio. In tech since 2012.
About
I'm CEO and co-founder of Kief Studio, a technology studio I run alongside my co-founder and spouse, Brian Gagne (CTO). We've been building together since 2012 — the partnership predates the entity by a decade.
My work sits at the intersection of engineering and behavioral science. Credentials in marketing psychology, consumer behavior, and positive psychology shape how I read customers, build products, and communicate. The code and the people questions aren't separate tracks — they're the same discipline.
14+
Years in Tech
CEO
Kief Studio
100+
Professional Credentials
800
Pages (co-authored book)
Latest
Own versus rent AI: rent the commodity model, own prompts, tools, logs, and data. Flexera 2025: 27 percent of IaaS/PaaS spend wasted. If you cannot export the workflow, you rented the company memory.
An AEO audit in a week: ten real questions, who gets cited, one URL per query, extractable first sentences, schema, IndexNow. This domain: 13 cited URLs of 147 posts in Bing AI Performance (29 Aug 2026).
AI pilots stall before production for boring reasons: no owner, no definition of done, no data path, no kill switch. CISA 1 May 2026: start low-risk. NIST AI RMF: Govern, Map, Measure, Manage.
Reach out
Personal-advisory questions route to me directly. Team-scope engagements route to Kief Studio. Both inboxes are monitored within 48 hours on business days.
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