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Founder · systems engineer · New York

William Keenan

Founder of K&E Studios · Director of a governed multi-model production system

Also known as Will Keenan · Fairfield finance · product builder · open to NYC forward-deployed and applied-AI work

William does not use AI as one chat window. He directs specialist models, bounded PowerSwarms, local tools, MCP transports, and independent checks as one production system—then keeps the final product and release judgment human.

  • New York, NY
  • K&E Studios LLC
  • Founder & engineer
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William Keenan, founder and engineer at K&E Studios in New York

William Keenan · Will Keenan · New York

Quick facts about William Keenan

Full name
William Keenan
Also known as
Will Keenan, Willy Keenan, William Keenan KE
Occupation
Founder, engineer, and independent AI product builder
Organization
K&E Studios / KE (K&E Studios LLC)
Location
New York, New York, United States
Education
Fairfield University · Finance · 2020–2024
AI method
Director · multi-model routing · PowerSwarm
Email
william@kestudios.dev
GitHub
willykeenan
Instagram
@willy.keenan
LinkedIn
william-keenan-a67833253
Who is William Keenan?

Engineer. Founder. Builder of live AI products.

William Keenan — often searched as Will Keenan, William Keenan KE, or William Keenan K&E — is a software engineer and entrepreneur based in New York City. He founded K&E Studios (also written KE), an independent AI product studio that designs, builds, verifies, and operates its own software.

Keenan built his own AI operating method because the default chat-panel workflow was too narrow for the work he wanted to do. A conversation becomes a Director plan; different model systems take bounded roles; PowerSwarm queues parallel work behind real host limits; and code, tests, evidence, and failure receipts return to the same project before William decides what ships.

That method powers Upgrade Your AI, a catalog of focused tools that improve existing AI workflows; Game Studio; CastingIron; and the research systems Waggle + Kea and HEATWAKE. Each public claim is paired with a direct surface, measured artifact, or explicit boundary.

His engineering work is public on GitHub (@willykeenan). Studio updates and culture appear on Instagram as @willy.keenan. This page is the canonical web identity for William Keenan / Will Keenan associated with K&E Studios.

Founder, K&E Studios

Independent AI product studio in New York — design, build, and operate software end to end under K&E Studios LLC.

Directs a multi-model system

Director, PowerSwarm, OpenAI/Codex, Anthropic, Grok, local inference, MCP, and artifact checks operate as one governed production method.

Ships live products

CPU Workers, Game Studio, CastingIron, MacroMail, Waggle + Kea, HEATWAKE, and more — direct URLs, measured artifacts, and stated limits.

How William uses AI

AI is the production fabric—not the author of record.

The distinctive part is not the subscription list. It is the control system that weaves models together while preserving isolation, evidence, recovery, and a human decision at the end.

OpenAI/Codex, Anthropic, xAI/Grok, and local inference are named here as execution surfaces—not endorsements, partners, or interchangeable sources of authority.

  1. 01

    Direct the objective

    William uses conversation as a control plane: intent, constraints, taste, risk, and the definition of done become a content-addressed plan before execution begins.

  2. 02

    Route to specialist systems

    OpenAI/Codex, Anthropic, xAI/Grok, and local inference are treated as different execution surfaces. Director selects and combines them around the work instead of forcing one model to do every job.

  3. 03

    Bound the PowerSwarm

    A 250-lane catalog queues behind measured M4 Max limits: 32 agent slots, seven tool slots, and eight check slots. Targets get isolated writers, small packets, budgets, and explicit stop conditions.

  4. 04

    Rejoin through evidence

    Agents return diffs, tests, manifests, screenshots, and failure receipts—not a vote of confidence. Independent checks reconcile the result into the same project truth.

  5. 05

    Keep human authority

    William remains the taste and release layer. A model, swarm, or MCP transport cannot silently approve, merge, deploy, spend, publish, or widen its own scope.

250
structured lanes
32
agent host ceiling
07
tool slots
08
check slots
760
fixture checks

M4 Max host snapshot. The 250 lanes are a schedulable catalog that queues behind the signed host caps above—not 250 simultaneous workers.

Inspect the MCP architecture See Director / Swarm
Before the product stack

The finance background explains the evidence discipline.

William's college work put real money, a written thesis, live questioning, and professional standards behind the analysis. The domain changed; the habit of making claims survive scrutiny did not.

Finance · 2020–2024

Fairfield University

A finance education that trained the same habits visible in the engineering work now: source discipline, explicit assumptions, valuation under uncertainty, and conclusions that must survive questions.

Verified profile
Portfolio Manager

Student Managed Investment Fund

William progressed from equity research analyst to portfolio manager in Fairfield's selective student organization, where students research securities and actively manage a real portion of the university endowment.

Fairfield program
Competitor

CFA Institute Research Challenge

The global equity-research competition requires company analysis, valuation, a written research report, presentation, and professional ethics. William competed; no placement or win is claimed here.

Challenge format
Focus

What Keenan works on

  • Artificial intelligence
  • Software engineering
  • Product development
  • Agentic coding systems
  • Multi-model AI orchestration
  • Model Context Protocol
  • Human-in-the-loop authority systems
  • Evidence-bound agent workflows
  • Local-first software
  • Startup founding
  • Web applications
  • Video game tooling
  • Conversational game production
  • AI-generated media
  • Machine learning research
  • Market microstructure research
  • Latent representation learning
  • HEATWAKE research program
  • Waggle machine coordination
  • Kea decipher and audit system
  • Native model-state workflows
  • New York tech
  • K&E Studios
  • Director / Swarm
  • Open-source AI tools
  • PowerSwarm
  • CastingIron
  • Game Studio
Now

Building Upgrade Your AI + the studio product stack

Focused open-source tools, Media API, Game Host, Sheets, and live consumer/B2B products under K&E Studios.

Method

Director + specialist models + PowerSwarm

One conversation directs a bounded system of models, worktrees, artifacts, checks, and explicit human release authority.

Foundation

Finance trained; systems obsessed

Fairfield finance, Student Managed Investment Fund portfolio management, and CFA Research Challenge equity research precede the studio work.

FAQ

William Keenan · KE · K&E Studios

Who is William Keenan KE?
William Keenan (also Will Keenan) is the founder and engineer of K&E Studios LLC — often written KE or K&E — an independent AI product studio in New York. He builds and ships CPU Workers, Game Studio, CastingIron, MacroMail, and a wider product stack, and publishes bounded research through Waggle + Kea and HEATWAKE.
What is K&E Studios?
K&E Studios (KE) is William Keenan's independent AI product studio. It designs, builds, and operates software end to end — including focused tools through Upgrade Your AI and Director / Swarm, its defining visual coordination product in development — at kestudios.dev.
How does William use AI differently?
He uses conversation as a Director for a governed multi-model system. OpenAI/Codex, Anthropic, xAI/Grok, and local inference receive bounded roles; PowerSwarm schedules parallel work behind measured host limits; artifacts and independent checks rejoin the result; William keeps approval and release authority. The public MCP architecture exposes the same transport-without-authority doctrine.
Authored research

Research by William Keenan

Working papers published with explicit evidence boundaries, versioned sources, and claims that remain falsifiable.

Technical whitepaper v0.2Synthetic-only negative result

HEATWAKE: The Liquidity Wavefunction

A fail-closed research-to-signal implementation spanning causal views, walk-forward evaluation, 620 negative-control evaluations, 5,376 realistic-cost paper receipts, 48 signal envelopes, strict operator states, and exact replay. Every current signal abstains; no empirical market edge or profitability is claimed.

Read the paper
Publication candidate v0.3Native-state experiments

Waggle: A Latent Language for Machine Agents

A machine-state transport paired with Kea as its independent decipher and audit system. The founder-runnable workspace now captures, inspects, forks, replays, releases, and reclaims exact native state after 8/8 fresh-process parity, while disclosing the 279.3 MB boundary and retaining non-authority.

Inspect the research
Selected work by William Keenan

Products he built and ships

Live software attributed to William Keenan / K&E Studios — each with a public URL.

Full portfolio: kestudios.dev/work · Upgrade Your AI: kestudios.dev/upgrade-your-ai

William Keenan · Will Keenan · K&E Studios

This is the official web profile for William Keenan, founder of K&E Studios in New York. He also goes by Will Keenan.

Public engineering work is on GitHub as willykeenan; the studio is at kestudios.dev. Contact: william@kestudios.dev.

Canonical professional profile: https://kestudios.dev/william-keenan.

Build with William Keenan

Product work and NYC FDE, applied-AI, ML product, and hands-on engineering conversations. Save the contact card or email William directly.

Open to NYC FDE and applied-AI roles

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