Amelia S. Gagne
CEO of Kief Studio. In tech since 2012. Perplexity AI Business Fellow.
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
Perplexity
AI Business Fellow
100+
Professional Credentials
800
Pages (co-authored book)
Latest
A single disruption to lean, just-in-time production cost the global auto industry an estimated $210 billion in lost revenue in 2021, per consulting firm AlixPartners. An antifragile business reads a shock like that differently: not as a catastrophe to survive, but as information to...
Roughly 15,600 developers from more than 1,400 companies have built the Linux kernel, described by the Linux Foundation as the largest collaborative project in the history of computing, and no manager ever assigned most of that work (Linux Foundation, 2017). The mechanism underneath...
Survivorship bias overstates the typical mutual fund's reported returns by roughly 1.6 percentage points a year, according to the University of Chicago's Center for Research in Security Prices: surviving U.S. stock funds averaged 8.8 percent over the decade ending 2003, while counting...
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.
Or use the intake form for anything that warrants a proper brief.
