CEO and co-founder of Kief Studio. Full-stack developer and strategist. Perplexity AI Business Fellow. In tech since 2012.
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A tool designed for one deployment model behaves differently in another. Where your infrastructure lives isn't a preference — it's a constraint that eliminates options before evaluation even starts.
Production AI has reliability, auditability, and hallucination characteristics that the marketing copy doesn't cover. What to actually evaluate before deploying AI in a regulated environment.
Remote work is a location policy. Async-first is a documentation discipline — the operating model that determines whether distributed teams produce coherent output or just synchronized chaos.
Samuelson and Zeckhauser proved in 1988 that people overwhelmingly stick with the default option — even when alternatives are objectively better. Every product you build inherits this.
Images are the most commonly neglected on-page SEO asset. They affect Core Web Vitals, accessibility scores, image search visibility, and AI-crawler understanding of your content.
Studies estimate 60%+ of searches end without a click. Most SEO guides treat this as a crisis. It isn't — if you understand what zero-click visibility actually does for your business.
Client-side analytics miss 20-40% of your data. We run three layers — client, server, and behavioral — because no single layer tells the complete story.
HTTP security headers are server-side instructions that tell browsers how to handle your site's content. They cost nothing to implement and prevent entire categories of attack. Most sites don't have them.
Perplexity, ChatGPT, and Google AI Overviews don't select sources randomly. There's a pattern — and it's learnable.
The difference between retainer and project work isn't billing structure. It's what kind of relationship you're building, what knowledge you accumulate, and how your business grows.
95% of purchasing decisions are subconscious. 78% of B2B buyers say trust in the vendor is the deciding factor. Here's what the behavioral science says about how trust actually forms.
Brian and I have been building together since 2012. We're married, we're co-founders, and we share a home office. Here's what actually works.
