CEO and co-founder of Kief Studio. Full-stack developer and strategist. In tech since 2012. Served as Secretary of the TRaViS board until May 2026.
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A blog post published in January 2024 is still driving traffic in April 2026 — at zero marginal cost. A social media post from January 2024 doesn't exist anymore. The math isn't close.
A capabilities deck tells you what a vendor wants you to know. The right questions reveal what you need to know. A framework for vendor evaluation that goes past the demo.
A recommendation that assumes specific infrastructure is available everywhere may not survive contact with the actual operating environment. Hardware constraints are real, common, and routinely ignored during software evaluation.
Writing for featured snippets and answer boxes means a 40 to 60 word answer under a heading that matches the query. Google extracts the cleanest block. Rank is a different job.
Most technology problems are symptoms. Slow reporting might be a data governance issue, an analytics architecture gap, or a process failure that predates any software. Solving the symptom with a new tool means the problem moves — it doesn't disappear.
Most teams treat security as a final review. We treat it as the first architectural decision. The difference shows up in audit season.
Parasitic SEO exploits high-authority domains to rank content that wouldn't rank on its own. It works — until it doesn't. Here's why legitimate businesses should avoid it.
License cost is the smallest line item. Implementation, integration work, training, ongoing maintenance, and the staff hours required to operate at scale typically run two to five times the sticker price.
Individual knowledge management tools are well-solved. The organizational equivalent — institutional memory that survives turnover and scales with headcount — is harder to build and more valuable.
Most Core Web Vitals advice tells you what the metrics are. This post tells you how to fix them — with the specific changes that produce the biggest improvements for the least effort.
The 2020 SolarWinds breach compromised 18,000 organizations. The attack didn't come through a phishing email or a weak password — it came through a software update. That's a supply chain attack.
Most of what people believe about SEO is either outdated or was never true. Here are the misconceptions I see most often — and what actually works.
