About Kelsi Guidry
ADD Entrepreneur | Tech Futurist | Web Developer | Content Creator
I’m Kelsi Guidry, a lifelong techy, problem solver, and creator of ideas. Born and raised in the small Cajun community of Cut Off, Louisiana, I grew up with a strong sense of resourcefulness and curiosity. That curiosity has shaped my career, driving me to experiment with ideas, turn them into reality, and share them so others can learn, use, and build alongside me.
For more than 15 years, I’ve launched and led ventures across small business services, technology, and community impact. My first company, MyWants Inc., began in 2007 as a centralized resource hub for teenagers. Early missteps in managing contractors created technical challenges, but those challenges taught me valuable lessons in web development, digital marketing, and entrepreneurship. That experience became the foundation for future projects, helping me guide other entrepreneurs around the same pitfalls I once faced.
Today, I run SiteGain Websites, which delivers professional, scalable web solutions. My career also extends into healthcare leadership as Director of the Louisiana Action Coalition, where I lead statewide initiatives to advance health equity and strengthen the nursing workforce.
My work lives at the intersection of entrepreneurship, technology, and creativity. I’m deeply interested in how artificial intelligence can change the way we learn, share, and connect. This includes building AI-driven tools that help entrepreneurs grow faster, designing interactive platforms that transform content into collaborative experiences, and exploring AI personas and digital twins to preserve knowledge for the future.
I consider my work an ongoing Innovation Lab, blending public projects, private experiments, and collaborative builds. Some are passion-driven, like creating interactive reef-keeping education tools. Others are market-driven, like platforms for AI-powered content curation and social engagement.
No matter the project, my goal remains the same: to turn ideas into valuable, impactful solutions and make the process transparent so others can learn from both successes and failures.
This website is my open workspace—a place where you’ll find my active projects, experiments, business ideas, and insights. It’s part portfolio, part lab notebook, and part journal of my entrepreneurial journey.
Outside of work, I’m a husband to Kassi, father to Liam and Liv, and an avid hobbyist with interests that range from reef aquariums and coral cultivation to emerging technology, stock trading, and health innovation.
Whether I’m consulting with a startup, speaking at an event, or building a tool on my laptop, I approach every project with the same mindset: curiosity first, creation second, connection always.
My Hometown & French Cajun Culture
I was born and raised in the small town of Cut Off, Louisiana which is South South West of New Orleans. When I tell people I live South of New Orleans, I usually hear, “I didn’t know there was anything South of New Orleans”. So, yes, I basically grew up in the Gulf of Mexico.
Cut Off is part of a string of small towns known to the locals as “Down the Bayou” which is pronounced more like “Down da Baya”. Most people from here have a heavy Cajun accent which is why it’s said that way. Cajuns, aka Acadians, are descendants of French Canadians around Nova Scotia. Acadians were exiled by the British and eventually many migrated to Louisiana. Cajuns have their own unique French dialect. Growing up, we learned words that were normal to us not even knowing and understanding they were French words, but French words that France French people would not even know. Here is a good list of Cajun Slang Words, many of them that we grew up saying.
Hobby
Reefing, Kelsi’s Reef
My biggest hobby at the time is creating and maintaining a saltwater reef tank aquarium. Those who partake in this hobby are “reefing” and we call each other “reefers”.
I’m in the process of building up my current 210-gallon reef tank aquarium. We purchased the tank and stand from a guy in New Orleans. The picture here is right after we moved everything in before we even put the doors on the stand. We used our rocks, fish, and coral from our previous 100-gallon reef tank setup we had when we were living in Calhoun, LA.
I think I enjoy the hobby so much because of its complexity. There is so much to learn about the biology of the animals and the chemistry of the water. All of these little variables can create a stunning reef tank or kill everything in it. Figuring it all out and piecing techniques and equipment to create a healthy tank is very fulfilling.
The goal for our tank is a full and thriving SPS (small polyp stony coral) dominant mixed reef tank.