Title: Indie AI builder & product designer · Dee Kargaev
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Description: Indie builder who designs AND ships AI products. 15 years in design, self-taught coder, solo AI studio at dee.agency. Author of Don't Replace Me and the SSRN paper The SEO-to-GEO Gap.
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| SEEN: A Four-Layer Framework for Generative Engine Optimization SSRN · DOI 10.2139/ssrn.6815500 · 2026 Working paper introducing SEEN: Structure, Evidence, Entity, and Notability. ↗ | https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6815500 |
| The SEO-to-GEO Gap DOI 10.2139/ssrn.6476021 · 2026 Paper on AI-search optimization. SSRN. ↗ | https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6476021 |
| Don't Replace Me ISBN 9798253164594 · 2026 A survival guide to the AI apocalypse. ↗ | https://dontreplace.me |
| Dory Python · MIT · 2025– Shared memory layer for AI agents. Local-first, markdown source of truth, CLI/HTTP/MCP native. ↗ | https://dory.deeflect.com |
| awesome-geo Markdown · 2025– Curated reference for Generative Engine Optimization. ↗ | https://geo.deeflect.com |
| codemode MCP · TypeScript · 2025 Give your AI agent access to any API in ~1,000 tokens. Two tools replace hundreds of definitions. ↗ | https://cm.deeflect.com |
| dee-ink Rust · 2025 31 Rust CLI tools built for AI agents. JSON output, pipe-friendly, one tool per job. ↗ | https://github.com/deeflect/dee-ink |
| See all work → | https://deeflect.com/work |
| Get SEEN — A Framework for Being Recommended by AI 2w ago SEEN is Structure, Evidence, Entity, Notability: a practical four-layer framework for making an entity easier for AI systems to find, read, verify, and recommend. ↗ | https://blog.deeflect.com/get-seen-framework/ |
| The AI visibility checklist I used on my own agency site 2w ago A practical 7-step AI visibility (GEO) checklist, with the actual changes I made on dee.agency before selling the same service to anyone else. ↗ | https://blog.deeflect.com/ai-visibility-checklist-dee-agency/ |
| SEO Is Dead. Long Live GEO. 3w ago I asked ChatGPT who I am. It didn't know. So I researched 168 platforms, built awesome-geo, and went deep on Generative Engine Optimization. ↗ | https://blog.deeflect.com/geo-ai-visibility/ |
| I was a half-builder 4w ago A half-builder is an "AI builder" who can do one half of the design-to-deploy chain and skips the rest. They post the demo. They never post the URL. Builder.ai was the loud version. Most of your timeline is the quiet ver ↗ | https://blog.deeflect.com/half-builder/ |
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