Two people. Everything covered.
Kief Studio is Brian and Amelia Gagne -- a husband-and-wife team out of Shrewsbury, Massachusetts. We handle technology for small businesses: websites, security, servers, automation, and ongoing support. Operating together since 2012. Brian consulting independently since 2006.
We built the tools to make it possible.
Most tech companies hire a big team and spread the work across departments. We took a different approach: we built 40+ custom internal tools that let the two of us do what normally takes a team of 10-14 people.
Our security platform integrates 500+ tools across 25+ AI-powered assessment agents. Our content pipeline runs every day -- selecting topics, researching, writing, scoring for quality, generating video, and distributing to 6 platforms. No human in the loop. Every piece passes an automated quality gate that rejects AI slop.
The result: you get one team for everything. No vendor pile, no finger-pointing, and no "that's not our department."
Meet the people who'll do the work.
Brian "Hippy" Gagne
20+ years building and securing infrastructure across manufacturing, retail, education, and research facilities. Brian handles servers, security, custom software, and automation. If it involves code or a command line, it's his.
Completed a 6-month Computer Science certification program at Worcester State University in 2 weeks -- while still in high school. Consults through expert networks on AI/ML platform architecture with an international client base. Author of "The Crossroads of AI Integration" and "The Renaissance of the 21st Century."
Python, Rust, Bash, SQL, Go, infrastructure-as-code
Amelia "Meelie" Gagne
Expert in regulated industries -- healthcare, cannabis, legal, manufacturing. Amelia manages client relationships, ERP systems, design, content strategy, and the SEO that outranked Fortune 500 companies with zero ad budget.
Led pro bono ERP implementations for 7 women-owned businesses across healthcare, cannabis research, legal, and small business sectors. Board member and Secretary of the Board at an enterprise cybersecurity platform, providing executive-level consulting on market research, product strategy, and go-to-market support.
Fortune 500 marketing campaign design experience. Managed hundreds of thousands in enterprise operations. Full-stack developer, video producer, and fine artist who applies an artistic lens to the technology world.
Rust, Python, JavaScript, React, Next.js, Node.js, HTML, CSS
The roles we cover.
Between the two of us, the combined skillset covers what would typically require a 10-14 person team, augmented by custom AI tooling we built ourselves.
Hiring this team in-house: $1.15M - $1.7M / year in salaries alone.
Regulated, complex, no problem.
We specialize in businesses where compliance matters, data is sensitive, and downtime costs real money.
Don't take our word for it.
"Kief Studio makes creative websites, with nice graphics that are secure, also. They worked with me step-by-step, were open to some minor changes and updates and came through relatively quickly at every turn. Highly Recommended."
-- Bob Carver
25+ years in information security. Built one of the largest botnet monitoring networks in North America. Named among "50 CISOs and Cybersecurity Leaders Shaping the Future."
"Amelia blew me away from day one... She is an amazing, gifted, humble woman with more skills and knowledge than 99% of the people I have ever met, or worked with. Her unique combination of creativity and technical know-how is so rare."
-- Aaron Birnbaum
vCISO / CISSP
"Not only are they incredibly talented and fun to work with, their knowledge of linking the customer-facing side of the business to the back-end systems of running my business was invaluable. They have guided my company's growth from a business plan into a best-in-class presence in my community."
-- Cheri Sacks RN, CDCES
Healthcare business owner
"Brian and Meelie are some of the most brilliant people I've had the great pleasure of working with. They were able to translate ALL of the random thoughts we had into a cohesive, inviting and comprehensive final product. Kief Studio responds almost immediately to my concerns and offers up solutions I would never have thought of."
-- Advocacy Law Firm Client
5-star Trustpilot review
A few things we believe.
Build it right the first time.
If a tool doesn't exist or doesn't fit, we build one. 40+ custom tools and counting, refined against real work every day. We don't resell other people's products -- we build our own.
Own the whole thing.
When one team handles security, servers, your website, and your support, nothing falls through the cracks. Problems get fixed, not escalated to someone else.
Ship real work, not demos.
Our automation runs in production every day -- writing content, managing email, scanning for threats, posting to social media. Not prototypes. Not proofs of concept. It's running right now.
Earn it, don't lock it in.
Our longest client relationship is 13+ years. That's from results, not contracts. If we're not delivering, you should be free to leave.
Security is obviously handled.
Security isn't a separate thing we sell through fear. It's a byproduct of building things correctly. Every server we provision passes 30+ automated verification checks. Post-quantum encryption. Zero clients lost to a breach.
Give back.
We led pro bono ERP implementations for 7 women-owned businesses. We helped 300+ content creators set up their channels. We maintain open source tools including a secrets manager and an AI slop detector. Good tools should be accessible.
We give back to the community.
We maintain open source tools that solve real problems. The same technology that powers our internal operations, available to everyone.
de-slop
Chrome extension that detects and removes AI-generated slop from web pages. 180+ detection patterns across a 3-tier weighted scoring system. The same technology powers our content pipeline's quality gate.
GPL-3.0 -- Chrome Web StoreSecrets Manager
Enterprise secrets manager built in Rust with AES-256-GCM encryption and Argon2 key derivation. Production-grade credential management for teams that take security seriously.
Rust -- Open SourceAUR Security Scanner
Arch Linux security scanner for AUR package vulnerability analysis. Multi-crate Rust workspace for identifying security issues in community packages.
Rust -- Open SourceLet's talk.
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