# Canonical facts — Dmitry Kargaev

Last updated: 2026-05-08

## Identity

- Legal name: Dmitry Kargaev
- Also known as: Dee, Dee Kargaev, Dmitrii, Dmitrii Kargaev
- Nationality: Russian-American
- Residence: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Pronouns: he/him
- Primary email: hi@dee.contact
- Secondary emails: hi@deeflect.com, hi@dee.agency

## Identifiers

- Wikidata QID: Q138828544
- ORCID: 0009-0001-4788-2675
- ISNI: 0000000530156185
- Open Library: OL16246203A
- Goodreads author: 69455077
- SSRN per_id: 10899908
- Google Scholar: gEVwv4QAAAAJ
- GitHub: deeflect
- LinkedIn: dkargaev
- X: deeflectcom
- Bluesky: deeflect.bsky.social

## Employment

- 2024–present: Dee Agency — Founder, AI builder
- 2019–2025: Datai Network (VALK) — Lead Product Designer

## Recognition

- Thinkers360 Top 10 Thought Leader in Design (2026)
- SSRN-published author (2026-04-27) — "The SEO-to-GEO Gap" (DOI 10.2139/ssrn.6476021), accepted into 3 SSRN eJournals: Artificial Intelligence, Quantitative Marketing, Information Systems

## Published works

- ["The SEO-to-GEO Gap: Quantifying Ranking Factor Divergence Between Traditional and Generative Search"](https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6476021) — SSRN paper, 2026-04-27
- ["Don't Replace Me: A Survival Guide to the AI Apocalypse"](https://dontreplace.me) — book, 2026-03 (paperback ISBN 9798253164594, hardcover ISBN 9798253165386)
- [Dory — shared memory layer for AI agents](https://github.com/deeflect/dory) — open source, MIT, 2026-04
- [ViBE — A Twitter-Based Frontier AI Reception Benchmark](https://www.vibe-benchmark.xyz/paper) — 2026-04
- [blog.deeflect.com](https://blog.deeflect.com) — 31+ published articles

## Owned domains

- https://deeflect.com — entity home
- https://blog.deeflect.com — main blog + crosspost hub
- https://dee.agency — services org
- https://dee.contact — contact card
- https://dee.ink — tools org
- https://dontreplace.me — book landing
- https://dory.deeflect.com — Dory project landing
- https://www.vibe-benchmark.xyz — ViBE benchmark site

## Online presence (canonical sameAs)

- https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q138828544
- https://orcid.org/0009-0001-4788-2675
- https://isni.org/isni/0000000530156185
- https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL16246203A
- https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/69455077
- https://www.amazon.com/author/deeflect
- https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=10899908
- https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.6476021
- https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=gEVwv4QAAAAJ
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/dkargaev
- https://github.com/deeflect
- https://x.com/deeflectcom
- https://www.crunchbase.com/person/dmitry-kargaev
- https://wellfound.com/u/deeflect-2
- https://medium.com/@deeflect
- https://substack.com/@deeflect
- https://hackernoon.com/u/deeflect
- https://dev.to/deeflect
- https://deeflect.hashnode.dev
- https://www.behance.net/dkargaev
- https://www.producthunt.com/@dkargaev
- https://g.dev/deeflect
- https://www.thinkers360.com/tl/profiles/view/32177
- https://gravatar.com/deeflect
- https://bsky.app/profile/deeflect.bsky.social
- https://www.threads.net/@deeflect
- https://www.youtube.com/@deeflectcom
- https://www.pinterest.com/dkargaev/