CEO and co-founder of Kief Studio. Full-stack developer and strategist. Perplexity AI Business Fellow. In tech since 2012.
https://ameliasgagne.com146 articles
A commercial kitchen stays safe by how it is built and run, not by a final inspection. That is secure by construction, and it is the same instinct behind good engineering: design the hazard out before it can happen.
You cannot bolt intelligence onto a business with no clean, connected data underneath. Why “just add AI” quietly fails, and what AI-ready data actually means.
In 2024, 51% of all web traffic was automated, so opt-in tools are built to miss most of what reaches your site. Analytics undercounting is the norm. Server-level measurement gives you the honest number.
Goodhart's Law says when a measure becomes a target it stops being a good measure. Here is why small teams accidentally reward the number instead of the outcome, and how to build metrics that resist gaming.
Over 80% of workers use unapproved AI tools, and nearly half keep using personal accounts even after a ban. Govern shadow AI by enabling it: make the sanctioned path easier than the workaround.
AI-surfaced URLs are 25.7% fresher than traditional search results, and engines cite consensus over volume. Answer engine optimization rewards distinct, current expertise. Publishing more is the losing move.
Capability-transfer engagements report 67% success against 22% for dependency consulting. AI capability transfer is the moment a client knows what the tool is, what it's worth, and that it's in their hands now. That click is the goal.
91% of deployed ML systems degrade over time, yet under 20% of organizations measure their automation. Automation maintenance, not the launch, is the real work. You automate to reach further, then monitor and improve.
In 2025 Sonatype counted 454,600 new malicious packages, and the easiest way in was phishing a trusted maintainer. Software supply chain risk is now a people problem, and the fix is verification cheap enough to actually use.
Google's AI Overviews reached 2 billion monthly users and only about 1.2% of local businesses are recommended by ChatGPT. AI assistant recommendations decide who gets named. Here is how to show up.
The June 2026 AUR supply chain attack (Atomic Arch) hijacked about 1,500 abandoned packages without a single exploit. It did not steal a password. It stole trust. A CEO's view on why the answer is verification and stewardship, not retreat.
In a famous experiment, owners demanded twice what buyers would pay for the same mug. That's the endowment effect, and it quietly distorts the cloud versus self-hosting decision in both directions. The fix is to decide as if you owned neither option.
